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How to Command Attention Without Referring to Anything Real
During the spanish civil war, dolores gomez ibaruri gave pro communist speeches that were so emotionally powerful as to determine several key moments in the war. To bring off this kind of eloquence, it helps if the speaker is as emotional, as caught up in words as the audience is. Theatricality, a carismatic is larger than life, has extra presence. Actors have studied this kind of presence for centuries. It is not the actor who screams the loudest or gestures the most wildly who works this magic best but the actor who stays calm and radiating self assurance.