What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
EDWARD ALBEEAs a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I’ve been influenced by every single play I’ve ever experienced.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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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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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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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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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody’s encouraged to want less, you’ll end up with less.
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When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don’t put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.
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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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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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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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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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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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