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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.

Edward Albee

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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Experience Fashion Imagination Myself Play
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
Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Philosophy Question
I have been both overpraised and under praised. I assume by the time I finish writing — and I plan to go on writing until I’m 90 or gaga it will all equal itself out.
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Equality Myself Praise Time Writing
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
There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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Actor Population
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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Act Creation Lonely Oneself Performance Privacy
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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Bad Definition Goodness Reality Writing
Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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Act Discovery Finding Oneself 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
Art should never try to be popular.
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Art One Liner Popular
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
A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.
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Comfortable Criticism Himself Play Responsibility Society
School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Education Ignorance Production School
A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Control Perspective Writing
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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Adoption Fascinate Mom Myself People Play

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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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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