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So even the most unlikely events have to take place somewhere ...
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My plays tend to be peopled with outsiders in search of clarity.
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I've worked really hard, but I know people who have worked even harder but didn't have the chances I've had.
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With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.
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I'm going to do whatever interests me. Look, writing 'Rabbit Hole' came out of an interest in diversifying my portfolio, frankly.
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The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being…
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I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.
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From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a…
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I've been pretty well treated by the critics, but the critics who didn't like my comedies hated them with an unbridled passion,…
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We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American thing to say, but…
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Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.
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I didn't go into 'Rabbit Hole' wanting to write about class. I think because of who I am it somehow found its…
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Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.
— Edward Bond
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In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner…
— Christopher Fry
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I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but…
— Jesse Eisenberg
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I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.
— Eric Bogosian
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You have to watch out with my plays. They're like yeast. You think they're one thing, then all of a sudden subtext…
— Horton Foote
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I'm trying to take culture and put it onstage, demonstrate it is capable of sustaining you. There is no idea that can't…
— August Wilson
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I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to…
— Harold Pinter
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I don't think I've ever written anything even remotely naturalistic. The closest probably would be seen as 'Frankie and Johnny,' and that's…
— Terrence McNally
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Im not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me…
— Edward Albee
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My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language
— Elfriede Jelinek
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In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African.
— Paul Robeson
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My fault now is making my plays too short.
— Beth Henley
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