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I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse.

~David Ives

Topics: Everything New New York New York Times Should Think Times Verse York I Think

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Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.

~David Ives

Topics: Demanded Instruments Invent Less More Only Play Start Symphony Well Write Writing You

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Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

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Topics: Elitist Lists Print Small Sometimes Too

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Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.

~David Ives

Topics: About Always Existential Family Intense Intense Love Love Plays Relationships Whether

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Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike.

~David Ives

Topics: Alike Always Any Because Bunch Casting Collaborative Effort Involved Necessarily Organic Part People Play Playwright Process Putting Think Trying Whole

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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.

~David Ives

Topics: Because Challenge Comedy English Form Gives Great Interesting Me Possibility Verse Which Writing

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I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.

~David Ives

Topics: Admire Minutes Perfect Pop Pop Songs Songs Three

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With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.'

~David Ives

Topics: Audience Down Go God Hours Least Lights More Oh Oh God Plays Thinking Two

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: Unknown

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