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I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.

Edward Albee

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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
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Theatrical Director
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Washington
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Edward Franklin Albee III
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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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I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less creativity the director need exert.
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When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.
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Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.
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When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.
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Being different is ... interesting there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution and if the differences are too extreme ... well, then, reality tends to fade away.
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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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The notion that women are less aesthetically profound and innovative than men--just not very important, if you know what I mean--doubtless spreads back to our beginnings as upright animals: the males hunted and killed for the family while the females stayed home in the cave and tended the strange little creatures they were giving birth to.
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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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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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I write to find out what I'm talking about.
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Writing should be useful. If it can’t instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness, there’s no point in doing it.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.
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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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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'
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I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
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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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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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