Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
EDWARD ALBEEFirst, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!
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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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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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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I’ve been influenced by every single play I’ve ever experienced.
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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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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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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
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