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George Bernard Shaw Quotes: It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.
         

It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.


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This page presents the quote "It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.". Author of this quote is George Bernard Shaw. This quote is about people, acting, casts,.