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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.

Edward Albee

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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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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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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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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
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In the theater, which is a sort of jungle, one does have to be a little bit careful. One mustn't be so rigid or egotistical to think that every comma is sacrosanct. But at the same time there is the danger of losing control and finding that somebody else has opened a play and not you.
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Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels about his work.
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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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I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?
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You may dislike the intention enormously but your judgment of the artistic merit of the work must not be based on your view of what it's about. The work of art must be judged by how well it succeeds in its intention.
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When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.
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Arthur Miller once payed me a great compliment saying that my plays were 'necessary.' I will go one step further and say that Arthur's plays are 'essential'
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There may be lots of questions that anybody - an actor or a director or anybody - can ask about a character in a play of mine that are not answered in the play, but if it's a question that I don't think is relevant, I don't bother about it. There's no reason to ask it.
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You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.
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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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That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
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The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.
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The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area... the performance of the work one creates.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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