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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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I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less creativity the director need exert.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?
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By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it's wrong to think I'm a commercial playwright who has somehow ceased his proper function. I have always been the same thing - which is not a commercial playwright. I'm not after the brass ring.
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To a certain extent I imagine a play is completely finished in my mind - in my case, at any rate - without my knowing it, before I sit down to write.
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The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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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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Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
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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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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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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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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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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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Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
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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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The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms of its artistic success and not on Freudian guesswork.
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Writing should be useful. If it can’t instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness, there’s no point in doing it.
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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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