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My friends and family have been so well trained that they know I really mean it when I say that I don't care if the review is good, because that can be as dangerous as when it's bad. It's less demoralizing, but it can be just as confusing.

~Richard Greenberg

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I do think the past changes at a slower rate. It sits a little more still for its portrait.

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I like the Mets. I'm interested in the Mets.

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I think I can be an intimidating energy in the room. I think I come in with an aura of wanting results because as the playwright, I know how it goes, and there's the thought, 'Why can't they catch up?'

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People talk about alienation in the city. Diners are a place where you feel comfortable, an extension of your house.

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When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat.

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The idea of a rupture between acts occurs in a number of my plays.

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Frankly, seeing my plays with an audience is something I do with gritted teeth; I find the experience very difficult. I love the moment when you have just the dress rehearsal, when no one's there; that's kind of the peak to me. When people start filing in, I like to file out.

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I was formed by 'The Forsyte Saga' marathon. There was something about seeing all those events telescoped that was unbelievably moving: that sense of time as something that can be tinkered with.

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You do think, if you have your druthers, 'I want to sort of be, not anonymous, but unknown'. But you don't have your druthers in life, do you?

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: February 22nd, 1958

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