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A lot of people are confused by hello. A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn't be confused by.

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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
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University Teacher
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Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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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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There are lots of young vital playwrights who are experimenting, and these are the plays that people who are interested in the theatre should see. They should go off Broadway. They should go to the cafe theatres and see the experiments that are being made.
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The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.
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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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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.
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