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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.

Edward Albee

There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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Actor Population
Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Philosophy Question
That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Happiness Moments Stop
Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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Correct Distance Necessary Order Time Way
Art has an obligation to offend.
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Art Obligation Offend One Liner
When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.
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Criticism Himself Judge Moral
A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Interest Myself Surprise
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
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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Alive End Life Live Realization Worst Yourself
A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Control Perspective Writing
I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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Attack Creation Feeling Myself
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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Conscious Development Myself Play Writing
It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy – the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.
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Answer Better Himself Invasion Privacy Question Terrible Writing
I don’t feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.
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Feeling Myself Necessary Place Play
People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them ‘all of my life.’
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Life Myself People Play Writing
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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Audience Criticism Encouragement End Theatre Yourself

What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.

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