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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
Edward Albee
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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
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Edward Franklin Albee III
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The one living playwright I admire without any reservation whatsoever is Samuel Beckett. I have funny feelings about almost all the others.
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Every monster was a man first.
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All plays are social comment to one extent or another.
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That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.
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What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.
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When you're dealing with a symbol in a realistic play, it is also a realistic fact. You must expect the audience's mind to work on both levels, symbolically and realistically. But we're trained so much in pure, realistic theater that it's difficult for us to handle things on two levels at the same time.
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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
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Some writers' view of things depends upon the success of the final result. I'd rather stand or fall on my own concepts. But there is a fine line to be drawn between pointing up something or distorting it.
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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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I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?
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I don't think I've ever written about me. I'm not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent boy that turns up in Three Tall Women.
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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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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
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I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
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In the theater, which is a sort of jungle, one does have to be a little bit careful. One mustn't be so rigid or egotistical to think that every comma is sacrosanct. But at the same time there is the danger of losing control and finding that somebody else has opened a play and not you.
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Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
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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 usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out.
Edward Albee
What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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