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#WisdomWednesday with actor Jonno Roberts

May 17, 2017
By Paulette Beete
The higher cause of all art is to reveal something that is beyond the factual truth of the world--something that is a more poetic truth, a more human truth.  Jonno Roberts
Read our interview with Jonno Roberts here. 

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