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

" New York was the Promised Land growing up. Writers were gods! The great gods of American culture... I thought. "

" 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. "

" I think we have a cultural difficulty with looking at our problems. "

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

" I like working with television. I do. "

" I make my life with New York stage actors, and I love them. They're the best actors on planet earth. "

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

" I have admiration for people who can do it well - the guys who wrote 'Cheers' and 'Frasier.' They created sort of a blissful comedic universe. "

" Moliere and Arthur Miller affected me at a very young age. In adulthood, I became overwhelmed by Chekhov. Those are my big theatrical influences. "

" 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. "

" I go to museums. I buy art, even. You should see my house; we don't have any wall space left. "

" I seem to be constantly confronted by theater professionals who are more or less annoyed by the prospect of structure. "

" When I go to Ohio to visit relatives on holidays, I am often astonished by the level of casual dismissal offered up by way of discussion. "

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

" 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. "

" Not so long ago, my feminist education taught me to ask the question, 'Is the gaze male?' The answer, apparently, is yes, which is why so many movies and television shows are about men and not women. "

" The myth that theater isn't for everybody is total nonsense. In the 18th and 19th centuries, everybody in America used to go to the theater all the time. The shows they went to see were big, crazy melodramas that had careening storylines and houses burning down and pretty girls in danger and comedy and death and destruction. "

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

" I have two sensational kids who I have raised with my husband, hoping and working every day to help them become healthy, happy, and decent human beings. "

" I write a lot because, if I don't, I start to panic, and I calm down when I write. "

" There are so many people from many different classes and ways of life who converge in one space to make a musical. "

" People kept saying, 'You've made it!' and I was like, 'What have I been doing all this time?' I've always felt successful. "

" Watching people toss all caution to the wind, who are ready to put their lives on the line for a dream, is something that is accessible. "

" 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. "

" I sincerely believe that for the New York theatre to remain relevant, all our major producing institutions should be presenting new American plays. "

" I actually think we should be trying to be rigorous in our thinking about television and the way it enters our lives and shapes the way so many people think. "

" The ridiculous way that workplace politics are conducted completely gets in the way of excellence in America. "

" 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. "