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" I have two sensational kids who I have raised with my husband, hoping and working every day to help them become healthy, happy, and decent human beings. "

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" Why is it so hard for men to identify with women as fellow travelers on this good Earth? "

" Part of the problem with producing contemporary political theater in America today is that many theaters don't have flexibility or resources, be it hiring a lot of actors or staging a work that might be tough for some audience and board members. "

" My son is a musician who next year will be attending the LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in New York City, which his mother helped him get into by making him practice all the time. "

" A lot of times, I think people feel that new plays are suspect, and actually, I don't know where that came from. I completely disagree with it! "

" It's not my responsibility to write plays about the way the world should be. "

" The ridiculous way that workplace politics are conducted completely gets in the way of excellence in America. "

" I write a lot because, if I don't, I start to panic, and I calm down when I write. "

" In the theater, there's an emphasis on the singular voice. You know, it's your play. And in television, there's so much institutional involvement. So you end up having to negotiate with a lot of people, and that provides a kind of wear and tear on the spirit. "

" Moliere and Arthur Miller affected me at a very young age. In adulthood, I became overwhelmed by Chekhov. Those are my big theatrical influences. "

" It's sort of a mystery where ideas come from. "

" Denver's commitment to giving contemporary storytellers the stage is crucial to the American theater. That's something embraced by 'Smash.' We should be telling our own stories. "

" Why is being a female having an agenda any more than being a misogynist - which David Mamet most certainly is? "

" We have this powerful ideological basis to the country that I don't think any other country in the world quite can brag about. It's a very complicated nation, and it's very fertile. "

" New York was the Promised Land growing up. Writers were gods! The great gods of American culture... I thought. "

" In television, what you are doing is trying to fit your voice into a particular mold. "

" The audience just doesn't care. They are just as interested in women-centric stories as they are in stories about men. "

" There are times when I wonder how I ever thought that I could dramatize the death of a national discussion as a family comedy. "

" I have spent my whole life working in the theater, and most of the people I know have done the same. And we are pretty interesting people. "

" Why on earth is the 'New Yorker' publishing puff pieces about pretty girls who go to parties? Does the 'New Yorker' ever run photos of cute boys just because they're cute and they come from money and they go to lots of parties? "

" When I go to Ohio to visit relatives on holidays, I am often astonished by the level of casual dismissal offered up by way of discussion. "

" The stage gives you more control over your own work; in television, there's a distressing amount of communal writing. Unless it's your show, you have no control over that. You're at the mercy of whoever's running the show. "

" Does art have to have high foot traffic to get funded in a recession? A lot of people, I am sure, would say absolutely not. And those postmodern art-loving loners surely would argue that even if one person likes a piece of art, that would make a museum worthwhile. "

" Show business is a struggle. I certainly wish that I had just blasted on the scene and not had quite such a hard time. But there's a great sense of the relief in that you don't have to prove yourself anymore. "

" Some people think big audiences are crass and that, say, a comedy that appeals to a wide audience is pandering. Other people would argue that you could say that about Moliere. "

" Theater is a public space. It is a spectacular space. It is a gathering place. "

" I have huge admiration for Jesus Christ and for his incredible compassion for all people. "

" I'm not afraid of just cranking it out and seeing what comes out of my subconscious. Because I don't always know what I'm feeling. I do a lot of rewriting later. But that first blast feels like a spigot - like it's coming from somewhere else. "

" I have always worked consistently, even in small ways and even in smaller theaters where I'll do One Acts or something. "

" I think new plays are vastly more surprising and challenging and inspiring; I hear from audiences all the time that they are delighted when they see plays about the world we live in now, at this moment. "

" I had such a good experience doing 'The Understudy' with the Roundabout, and people were really enthusiastic about the work. "