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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.

Edward Albee

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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Action Definition Oneself Play
Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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Death Live Right Yourself
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Criticism Death Facility
Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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Acceptance Influence Rejection Religion Selection
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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Concept Evolution Play Question
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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Author Character Extension Material People Personality Source Yourself
Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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Destruction Person Sincere
There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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Actor Population
What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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Education Myself Preference Taste
If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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Failure Inspirational Success Willing Yourself
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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Afraid Fake Illusion Life Live
I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Finding Play Writing
I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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Mindset Myself Remember Thinking Time Yourself
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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Bad Definition Goodness Reality Writing
Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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Best Goodness Hope Intention
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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Careful Prevent Terrible Theatre

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