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I suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.
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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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.
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I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.
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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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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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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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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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Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.
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Some writers' view of things depends upon the success of the final result. I'd rather stand or fall on my own concepts. But there is a fine line to be drawn between pointing up something or distorting it.
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I don't think I've ever written about me. I'm not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent boy that turns up in Three Tall Women.
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When you're dealing with a symbol in a realistic play, it is also a realistic fact. You must expect the audience's mind to work on both levels, symbolically and realistically. But we're trained so much in pure, realistic theater that it's difficult for us to handle things on two levels at the same time.
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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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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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I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret.
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I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
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I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
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