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I've been pretty well treated by the critics, but the critics who didn't like my comedies hated them with an unbridled passion, and then I would see these same people writing very respectfully about ordinary naturalistic plays.
David Lindsay-Abaire
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David Lindsay-Abaire
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: November 30
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