Act for them, to them. Don't act as if they are just some bunch of Philistines out there who can't appreciate your art.

为他们表演，想他们表演，不要把它们当做俗气的人,所以不能欣赏你们的艺术。

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And we cannot afford to just past them over, ignore them and act as if they don't exist.

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Afterward, Boeheim reminisced at length, but he also smiled and tried to act as if he wasn't going to miss it.

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And we act as if they don't exist, and the reality is, if they're not a part of this process, by the time you get to the southern states, what you realize is that they are not coming out and voting for Democrats, and regardless of what color or what gender they are.

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