A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
EDWARD ALBEEWhen you get old, you can’t talk to people because people snap at you…. That’s why you become deaf, so you won’t be able to hear people talking to you that way.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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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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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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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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When you get old, you can’t talk to people because people snap at you…. That’s why you become deaf, so you won’t be able to hear people talking to you that way.
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The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.
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Art has an obligation to offend.
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Maybe it’s a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes, maybe the play’s a little more pertinent now.
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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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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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That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
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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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