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

Edward Albee

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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Himself Play Stage
Art should never try to be popular.
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Art One Liner Popular
I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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Attack Creation Feeling Myself
I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I’m tired.I’m tired of the truth and I’m tired of lying about the truth.
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Lying Myself Sick Tired Truth
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
Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Philosophy Question
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
The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.
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Animal Art Conscious Decorative Essential Ourselves Separate
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.
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Confusion Education People
That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Happiness Moments Stop
Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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Close Creativity Examination Magic
The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Goodness Kill Myself Review Time
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
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Fact Fiction Play Truth
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
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

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