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The process of observing an object for the purpose of taking away from it qualities that will be useful in developing a character.
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abstraction
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A personal memory that helps an actor find a similar stage emotion.
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emotion memory
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The power of the mind to form an inner image or concept of something that is unreal or not present. Always taken from your own personal history, you must know how to retain observed behaviors, situations, and abstract qualities, and then have the ability to separate, recall, and adapt them into a new combination for the stage.
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imagination
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Specific mental pictures that help an actor to trigger actively traveling thoughts.
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inner images
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Developed by Lee Strasberg and based on early teachings of Stanislavski, it is an internal approach to acting that gives primary focus to affective memory.
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Method Acting
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Everything you have experienced, felt, read, or observed in life or fiction.
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personal history
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The use of past sensations--taste, touch, sound, smell, and sight--as a means to substitute the qualities of one thing for another (e.g., drinking water as if it were vodka or burning your finger on a stove that is not actually lit).
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sense memory
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