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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. "
Theresa Rebeck
Overwhelmed
Young
Adulthood
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" 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. "
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" Nothing sounds as crazy as telling people you're not crazy. "
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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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" There are times when I wonder how I ever thought that I could dramatize the death of a national discussion as a family comedy. "
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" Obviously, a theatrical masterpiece needs more than a plot; many television shows are nothing but plot, and it is doubtful that they will stand the test of time. But I also don't think that making fun of plot or acting like we're all somehow 'above' structure is such a good idea. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I like working with television. I do. "
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" I have huge admiration for Jesus Christ and for his incredible compassion for all people. "
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Jesus Christ
People
Christ
" 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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" Because I'm an American woman, and I write straight plays, it's always been sort of assumed I would never be done on Broadway. But that was never the goal. "
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Done
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" Rarely do I try to pull a creature out of life and make it a character. "
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Pull
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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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Seem
" Some of my family goes back a long way in Denver. "
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Way
Long
" 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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Think
World
Country
" 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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Me
Myself
Think
" 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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Museums
Art
House
" The movies are all about visual, and television is all about character and dialogue. "
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Television
Movies
" I actuall have to defend realism in theatre because I think TV does it badly - so corrupted by layers of bureaucrats who want to leave examination or psychology. "
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Think
Want
Leave
" I had such a good experience doing 'The Understudy' with the Roundabout, and people were really enthusiastic about the work. "
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Experience
Good
People
" 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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Humor
Dreams
Humanity
" I think we have a cultural difficulty with looking at our problems. "
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Difficulty
Problems
Think
" I remember when I was at Brandeis, Geoffrey Wolff, he was a great fiction-writing teacher. He was the writer-in-residence, and for those of us who wanted to be writers, you were so excited to be in the same hallway as him. "
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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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" People kept saying, 'You've made it!' and I was like, 'What have I been doing all this time?' I've always felt successful. "
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Time
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" I write a lot because, if I don't, I start to panic, and I calm down when I write. "
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Calm
Start
" I let action rise out of character, really. "
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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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" Generally, what I try to do is always have a money gig and an art gig. "
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Always
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