If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
EDWARD ALBEEA play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf means who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, who’s afraid of living life without false illusions.
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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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I don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn’t matter.
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I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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Being different is interesting; there’s nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme well, then, reality tends to fade away.
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I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
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I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.
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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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Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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Anything you put in a play – any speech – has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
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