Billy Crystal quote ✍️

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Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.
Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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E
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E
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
ENE
Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
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