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" Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not. "

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" It's very common for people to recommend something to me because they're going on what I've already written, when, what really is the case, is that you want to write about something you haven't written about, in ways that you haven't done before. "

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