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Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.

Edward Albee

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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
Author
Playwright
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Screenwriter
Theatrical Director
University Teacher
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Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
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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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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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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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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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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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Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.
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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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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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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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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.
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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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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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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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Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.
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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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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.
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