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" The ridiculous way that workplace politics are conducted completely gets in the way of excellence in America. "
Theresa Rebeck
Workplace
America
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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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" 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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" 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 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. "
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" My son is a musician who next year will be attending the LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in New York City, which his mother helped him get into by making him practice all the time. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Nothing sounds as crazy as telling people you're not crazy. "
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" 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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" The movies are all about visual, and television is all about character and dialogue. "
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" Is the American theatre allowing itself to become irrelevant? The problem isn't that playwrights aren't being paid enough. It's that theatres all over America are looking towards New York to tell them what new plays to do. "
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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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" 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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" Generally, what I try to do is always have a money gig and an art gig. "
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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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" I am curious about a lot of things. I'm perplexed and engaged. "
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" I think new plays are vastly more surprising and challenging and inspiring; I hear from audiences all the time that they are delighted when they see plays about the world we live in now, at this moment. "
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" 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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" 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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