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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.

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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All plays are social comment to one extent or another.
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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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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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I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less creativity the director need exert.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.
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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'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And in another fifteen years I'll be back. If you try to write to stay in fashion, if you try to write to be the critics' darling, you become an employee.
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Every monster was a man first.
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Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about.
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Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
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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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