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From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that.

~David Lindsay-Abaire

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I don't want to work on a musical if I'm not the lyricist.

~David Lindsay-Abaire

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Pretty much, the writer's in charge in theater. Of course you're in charge with the director, but no one can change your words. People can give you notes, but you don't have to take them. In Hollywood you take them and you cash your check and that's your job. It's very different.

~David Lindsay-Abaire

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Having deadlines helps because people are constantly breathing down my neck, and tapping their toes waiting for pages. So I just have to work nine to five. If I didn't have deadlines then I might be more of a golden hour kind of guy, writing from eight to noon and calling it a day, but that's just not the way I work right now.

~David Lindsay-Abaire

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The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being humble - I honestly do not and cannot think about that. It's a lovely piece of crystal on my bookcase, but that's all it is to me.

~David Lindsay-Abaire

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I didn't go into 'Rabbit Hole' wanting to write about class. I think because of who I am it somehow found its way into it.

~David Lindsay-Abaire

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With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.

~David Lindsay-Abaire

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Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.

~David Lindsay-Abaire

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I've been pretty well treated by the critics, but the critics who didn't like my comedies hated them with an unbridled passion, and then I would see these same people writing very respectfully about ordinary naturalistic plays.

~David Lindsay-Abaire

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I've worked really hard, but I know people who have worked even harder but didn't have the chances I've had.

~David Lindsay-Abaire

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: November 30th, 1969

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