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" I write a lot because, if I don't, I start to panic, and I calm down when I write. "
Theresa Rebeck
Calm Down
Calm
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" That stupid postmodern emphasis on image over content has slammed us right into a dramaturgy that willfully leaves the audience behind and then resents the fact that they don't 'get it.' "
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" New York was the Promised Land growing up. Writers were gods! The great gods of American culture... I thought. "
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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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" The myth that theater isn't for everybody is total nonsense. In the 18th and 19th centuries, everybody in America used to go to the theater all the time. The shows they went to see were big, crazy melodramas that had careening storylines and houses burning down and pretty girls in danger and comedy and death and destruction. "
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" In television, what you are doing is trying to fit your voice into a particular mold. "
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" Heath Ledger's recent death, like that of River Phoenix, was handled with great care by the press. Anna Nicole Smith's not so much. "
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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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" Moliere and Arthur Miller affected me at a very young age. In adulthood, I became overwhelmed by Chekhov. Those are my big theatrical influences. "
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Young
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" I think it goes without saying that young would-be playwrights in developmental workshops should be so lucky as to write plays as good as 'Waiting for Godot,' 'Uncle Vanya' or 'King Lear,' none of which would have existed without a decent plot. "
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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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" 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. "
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Country
" Everyone pays lip service to this whole idea of doing more new plays, and nobody ever does it. "
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Doing
" 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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Live
" In America, the average playwright makes less than a receptionist in a non-profit theatre. We don't have decent health insurance - or any health insurance at all. "
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Insurance
" Not so long ago, my feminist education taught me to ask the question, 'Is the gaze male?' The answer, apparently, is yes, which is why so many movies and television shows are about men and not women. "
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" I think we have a cultural difficulty with looking at our problems. "
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" 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. "
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People
" 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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" The ridiculous way that workplace politics are conducted completely gets in the way of excellence in America. "
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" So in case there was any doubt, I am here to report that having a play on Broadway does not suck. "
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" Sometimes I feel that my job on earth is to put Julie White through horrible things, watch her writhe and then recover. "
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" There are so many people from many different classes and ways of life who converge in one space to make a musical. "
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" I often find it maddening to live in America, in a way that is both amusing and horrifying to me. America clings to versions of itself that are absolutely hypocritical. I can't shake my outrage at it, so I write about it. "
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" When I was a staff writer on 'NYPD Blue,' it was truly my job to hear David Milch's voice for that show and to deliver episodes that embodied that voice. "
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" It's sort of a mystery where ideas come from. "
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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'm an impatient person. "
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" There's a thing that happens to Midwesterners - we spend a lot of time talking about having a different set of rules about manners. I don't know about ethics, but certainly about manners, what you would say and what you wouldn't say. And that is not very East coast. "
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" Rarely do I try to pull a creature out of life and make it a character. "
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