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...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental.

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Judith Guest
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: March 29
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
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Sympathetic
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Sentimental
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Wherever
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Dialogue
Seems
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