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I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.

Edward Albee

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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
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Washington
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Edward Franklin Albee III
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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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My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.
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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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Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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Im not suggesting that the play is without fault all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.
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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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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
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If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do his work the way he was going to anyway.
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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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