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Costume meetings, set decoration meetings, hair and make-up meetings, budget meetings, casting concept calls, network and studio notes calls on multiple drafts of multiple scripts, outlines, and stories, sound and special effects spotting in post-production... enough meetings to wear down even the most extroverted mass-communicator.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "64061b29-0b9c-4f50-b332-9500f7d1cfbe", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.08, "w": 0.78, "x": 0.11, "y": 0.58 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "Yes... believe it or not, that motley and smelly bunch of malcontents you keep trying to avoid is - in reality - a misfit band of spiritual warriors ready to spread your Evangel to every corner of your show's domain. 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