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title: "11 Plays Written Quotes by 11 authors"
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> [For two years I was a member of a repertory company in Los Angeles, doing mostly original material, plays written by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judy-norton/for-two-years-i-was-a-member-of-a-repertory-company-in-los-angeles/)

[Judy Norton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judy-norton/)

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> [I didn't want to work on dry, old plays written by the dry, old dead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathy-burke/i-didn-t-want-to-work-on-dry-old-plays-written-by-the-dry-old-dead/)

[Kathy Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathy-burke/)

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> [The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-miller/the-two-greatest-plays-ever-written-were-hamlet-and-oedipus-rex-and/)

[Arthur Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-miller/)

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> [Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bernard-shaw/most-of-my-recent-plays-were-written-in-the-railway-train-between/)

[George Bernard Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-bernard-shaw/)

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> [“How many plays have been written in France?' Candide asked the abbe. 'Five or six thousand.' 'That's a lot,' said Candide. 'How…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/how-many-plays-have-been-written-in-france-candide-asked-the-abbe/)

[Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/)

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> [My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-housman/my-best-chance-is-that-in-a-happy-moment-i-hit-upon-st-francis-as-the/)

[Laurence Housman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-housman/)

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> [I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-hall/i-don-t-really-find-things-funny-unless-they-re-deeply-tragic-at-the/)

[Lee Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-hall/)

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> [All the plays that have ever been written, from ancient Greece to the present day, have never really been anything but thrillers...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eug-ne-ionesco/all-the-plays-that-have-ever-been-written-from-ancient-greece-to-the/)

[Eugene Ionesco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eug-ne-ionesco/)

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> [My father's father wrote for a Philadelphia newspaper and aspired to be a playwright. We had in our house a couple of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-gaghan/my-father-s-father-wrote-for-a-philadelphia-newspaper-and-aspired-to/)

[Stephen Gaghan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-gaghan/)

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> [“Let's dispel the idiotic notion that the plays were not written by Shakespeare. Of course they were written by Shakespeare. How can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-barnes/let-s-dispel-the-idiotic-notion-that-the-plays-were-not-written-by/)

[Paul Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-barnes/)

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> [The thing that is always so surprising about plays written in another century is how remarkably elastic they are. When you listen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-spacey/the-thing-that-is-always-so-surprising-about-plays-written-in-another/)

[Kevin Spacey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-spacey/)

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