If at first you don’t succeed
For those of you that plan on applying to an acting school, but only one, or for those that have auditioned and failed to get in, the following might give you hope. Dustin Hoffman, Oscar winning acting, auditioned SIX times for drama school (the same school) before he got in. Now that’s determination, and that’s why he has an Oscar.
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