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" I'm really into the irony of writing vaguely radical plays that instantly win huge establishment awards. It's really amusing. "

Israel Horovitz

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" I have seen dozens upon dozens of productions of 'Lebensraum' in dozens of languages around the globe. "

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" If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera. "

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" It's not unusual for people to like Florida in the winter. I'm not a great tourist. I like coming down to work. "

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" The Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times. "

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" What Lou Tyrrell creates when he has a theater is a birthing center for new plays. "

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" I was not to the manor born. "

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" I grew up in Wakefield, Mass., and there were only a couple of Jewish families in the town. "

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" I've always been a fighter - it's always been a part of my personality. "

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" I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way. "

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" I began coming to Paris in the 1960s when I was told audiences here liked my work. More than 20 of my plays have been produced in Paris, and several have had long runs and have returned in revivals. "

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" Gloucester's not some chi-chi tourist town. It's a working-class seaport: a no-kidding-around down-and-dirty place. "

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" My dream is to have a small company in France. "

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" L.A. is so focused on TV and film that theater is kind of an arcane sport. People look at you like you're doing something cute. "

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" I learned Hebrew from a high school teacher named Mr. Cohen. We would drive down the highway to meet his car, and Jewish boys from these Massachusetts towns would sit in his car and learn the lessons. "

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" People expect someone with the name 'Israel Horovitz' to be a little old man with sideburns carrying a Torah. "

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