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" Nothing sounds as crazy as telling people you're not crazy. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Everyone pays lip service to this whole idea of doing more new plays, and nobody ever does it. "

" One thing I won't do in television is a sitcom. I find that world to be so neurotic and bizarre. "

" 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. "

" I'm an impatient person. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes I feel that my job on earth is to put Julie White through horrible things, watch her writhe and then recover. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" So in case there was any doubt, I am here to report that having a play on Broadway does not suck. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" Our distorted media culture sees men as subjects and women as objects; in films, Woody Allen gets older and older and still dates 20-year-old babes; movies about women are called 'chick flicks,' and men make fun of them. "

" I find a lot of input from other people very stressful. "

" It's so funny, I'm always stealing from Moliere, and nobody ever notices. I steal from him willy-nilly. "

" Theater can be elusive and poetic, but it doesn't thrive when it doesn't reach an audience. "

" 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. "

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

" We were told that hard work and talent and character would get you somewhere. At school, we learned it was important to share. On Arbor Day, we all planted trees. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "