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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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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All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be escapist. That's a waste of time.
Edward Albee
Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.
Edward Albee
Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
Edward Albee
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.
Edward Albee
Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.
Edward Albee
Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.
Edward Albee
That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
Edward Albee
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.
Edward Albee
I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
Edward Albee
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.
Edward Albee
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.
Edward Albee
School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians
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One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.
Edward Albee
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.
Edward Albee
My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.
Edward Albee
Progress is a set of assumptions.
Edward Albee
I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
Edward Albee
The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.
Edward Albee
A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
Edward Albee
You want to dance with me, angel tits?
Edward Albee
