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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.

Edward Albee

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
There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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Chaos Civilization
One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
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Lose Mindset Oneself Play Respond Understand
When you get old, you can’t talk to people because people snap at you…. That’s why you become deaf, so you won’t be able to hear people talking to you that way.
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Old People Snap Talk Way Yourself
When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
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Blame End People Play Way
Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Philosophy Question
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
First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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Choice Dog Kill Kindness Method Myself
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
Well, when you write about people of a certain age we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger people then I write sexually, because their drive is sexual. It depends upon the circumstances.
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Age Character Circumstance Myself Play Sexual Situation Young
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Fact Fiction Play Truth
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
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
School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Education Ignorance Production School
In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed. But what you can do is to educate the people to the point that they will throw the rascals out.
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Access Democracy Information People Point Public Stop Yourself
I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
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Interest Live Myself Production Run

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