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Edward Albee

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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
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Playwright
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District of Columbia
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Arthur Miller once payed me a great compliment saying that my plays were 'necessary.' I will go one step further and say that Arthur's plays are 'essential'
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I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret.
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School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians
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The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic -- to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, Do you like it? If you don't like it, change it.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
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All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be escapist. That's a waste of time.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out.
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Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.
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All plays are social comment to one extent or another.
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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
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By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it's wrong to think I'm a commercial playwright who has somehow ceased his proper function. I have always been the same thing - which is not a commercial playwright. I'm not after the brass ring.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?
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I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less creativity the director need exert.
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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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