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" I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes. "
Perfect
Minutes
Songs
" I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse. "
Should
Everything
New
" Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small. "
Lists
Too
Small
" Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike. "
Process
People
Effort
" Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships. "
Family
Love
Always
" Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. "
Writing
Me
Great
" With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.' "
Thinking
Audience
Down
" Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well. "
Write
You
Writing
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