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" 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. "

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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. "

" 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 like to write. Prolific is part of who I am. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You have to respect who the character is. It has its own internal truth, and you can't betray that. And if you don't betray that, it will not betray you. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I like working with television. I do. "

" It's not my responsibility to write plays about the way the world should be. "

" Rarely do I try to pull a creature out of life and make it a character. "

" I have a dog whose name is Banquo. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" 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 think, with most writers, their neurosis is finishing things. I have a different neurosis. I'm terribly anxious when it's not finished. Then I become really difficult to live with. "

" The economics of theater are painful. I still think that the theater community should be looking much more rigorously at how to let the playwright keep the money they make. "

" I'm not ashamed of being American; I'm very proud. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I work hard. I like getting to the end of things. And I write my plays that way. "