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School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians
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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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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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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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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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.
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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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Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about.
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I find that when my plays are going well, they seem to resemble pieces of music. But if I had to go into specifics about it, I wouldn't be able to. It's merely something that I feel.
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All plays are social comment to one extent or another.
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The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.
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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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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.
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When one controls form, one doesn't do it with a stopwatch or a graph. One does it by sensing, again intuitively.
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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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If you intellectualize and examine the creative process too carefully it can evaporate and vanish. It's not only terribly difficult to talk about, it's also dangerous.
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