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Thank you We sneak in determination perseverance and confidence Allah

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shmoop carrie curtains has always wanted one thing and one

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thing only a giant briefcase full of cash Okay two

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things Second thing and the real biggie is to be

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a gigantic star on broadway so yeah a broadway career

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in a ton of cash Usually those two things don't

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go hand in hand but carrie is willing to make

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that sacrifice to have her name in lights and she's

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totally got the chops for it She's a great actress

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she's a great singer and she can dance her buns

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off Only thing is she's got crippling anxiety hates auditioning

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despises it like every time she walks into an audition

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room It's a toss up between breaking out new cold

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sweat or having a puke into the nearest available trash

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can and sometimes both But she wants to be a

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broadway baby badly so she moves to new york after

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high school and decides to give it a shot anyway

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Week after week it's the same old story anxiety cold

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sweats you cola dressed out of her mind deeply depressed

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and about twenty pounds lighter You would be too if

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you spent that much time losing your lunch Carrie finally

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crawls back home to ohio with her tail between her

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legs figuratively speaking of course the off off broadway production

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of cats she was in i didn't let her keep

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the costume she cries for her parents telling them she's

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hanging it up as much as she wants to be

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the next adele nosy bra adina menzel it isn't worth

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it besides she's never going to get a part anyway

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if she can't control her you know bodily functions for

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parents tell her they'll love her no matter what but

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that she'd better get her butt back to new york

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and chase her dream They tell her that nothing worth

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having ever comes easy and it's fun on ly once

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you've gone through and conquered the really tough stuff that

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the journey seems worthwhile So carrie nausea medication in hand

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goes back to new york to give it one more

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go She continues to have difficulty controlling her nerves but

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the more auditions she goes to she starts to realize

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something it's all becoming common place She becomes less stressed

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at auditions because well hack there was one yesterday and

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there will be another one tomorrow and suddenly she gets

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a part it's just a small part in a really

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awful play about some woman going through the five stages

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of grief But michael c hall is in it playing

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the part of bargaining so that's cool and it gives

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her just the tiniest bit of confidence The next time

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she steps into an audition she's got a success under

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her belt and she doesn't worry quite so much what

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they're going to think of her You know she's got

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mad skills if they don't recognize it well hey then

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it's on them well as her confidence builds so it

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is her resume I'm after time Carrie Find yourself booking

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roles better ones in better place And while she doesn't

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quite have her name in lights she is making a

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living now practicing her art and following her passion Now

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if only she could stumble upon that briefcase full of 00:02:48.71 --> [endTime] cash

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