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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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Playwright
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Theatrical Director
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Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
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The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.
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You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?
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One must let the play happen to one one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
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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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I suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.
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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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All plays are social comment to one extent or another.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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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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Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
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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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Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
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The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own value, of his own work. He's got to listen to his own voice primarily. He's got to watch out for fads, for what might be called the critical aesthetics.
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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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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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I write to find out what I'm talking about.
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Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
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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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Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.
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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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