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" I like to write. Prolific is part of who I am. "
Theresa Rebeck
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" I find a lot of input from other people very stressful. "
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" It's not my responsibility to write plays about the way the world should be. "
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" Spielberg read the 'Understudy' and decided that was the voice he wanted to write 'Smash.' He wanted a story that had humanity and humor and high-stakes dreams. "
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" I have always worked consistently, even in small ways and even in smaller theaters where I'll do One Acts or something. "
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" 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. "
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" I go to museums. I buy art, even. You should see my house; we don't have any wall space left. "
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" 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! "
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" I was born and raised in the Midwest, where people were taught that decency and integrity and community were all important values. We were democrats with a little 'd.' "
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" I seem to be constantly confronted by theater professionals who are more or less annoyed by the prospect of structure. "
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" I would rather work in the theater than anywhere else, and it does seem to be a place where stories can and should be told purely. "
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" The economics of theater are painful. I still think that the theater community should be looking much more rigorously at how to let the playwright keep the money they make. "
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" I am curious about a lot of things. I'm perplexed and engaged. "
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" I think we have a cultural difficulty with looking at our problems. "
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" Art is great. At its best, it engages the intellect and challenges the spirit; it connects us across history and reminds us of our humanity. "
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" We need theatre that is contemporary, lively and relevant, and the only way to do that is to take care of our playwrights and produce their plays. "
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" Why is it so hard for men to identify with women as fellow travelers on this good Earth? "
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" You have to respect who the character is. It has its own internal truth, and you can't betray that. And if you don't betray that, it will not betray you. "
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" I see how the Midwest distrusts the East Coast. The Midwest sees itself as morally superior. The Coast sees itself as intellectually superior. And the two are actually the same thing. "
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" I'm not ashamed of being American; I'm very proud. "
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" I think, with most writers, their neurosis is finishing things. I have a different neurosis. I'm terribly anxious when it's not finished. Then I become really difficult to live with. "
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" When people tell me I'm a prolific writer, it's a nice thing to say. But I think to myself, 'Yeah, but I don't do anything else.' "
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" Theater can be elusive and poetic, but it doesn't thrive when it doesn't reach an audience. "
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" Everyone pays lip service to this whole idea of doing more new plays, and nobody ever does it. "
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" 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? "
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" I have tremendous affection for New York and my life, but I'm a satirist at heart. And it's easy to satirize New York. "
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" I think it's straight men who are oblivious to goodness or badness to dates. That's probably unfair. Maybe they just don't complain as much. "
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" Honestly, the thing that I have found to be most useful over a long career, or maintaining a long career, is taking back the power at some point and self-producing. "
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" 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. "
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