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That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.

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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Screenwriter
Theatrical Director
University Teacher
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Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
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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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When you get old, you can't talk to people because people snap at you.... That's why you become deaf, so you won't be able to hear people talking to you that way.
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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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My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.
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I think it is the responsibility of critics to rely less strenuously on, to use a Hollywood phrase, what they can live with, and more on an examination of the works of art from an aesthetic and clinical point of view.
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Every monster was a man first.
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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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It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy - the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.
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Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.
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True, I don't begin with an idea for a play - a thesis, in other words, to construct the play around. But I know a good deal about the nature of the characters. I know a great deal about their environment. And I more or less know what is going to happen in the play.
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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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The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.
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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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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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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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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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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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