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There is this aura that the three-act play is the important one: it's the one that you do to win the Pulitzer. Some part of you falls for that, and then after a while, you don't fall for that.

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To me, a strong sense of self isn't believing in a lot.

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Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.

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Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

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It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

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When I just sit around my house and work, I can work two, three hours, and then I go off and ride a horse or do something that I perceive to be a lot more fun.

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More than anything, falling in love causes a certain female thing in a man to manifest, oddly enough.

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If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.

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It's very difficult to escape your background. You know, I don't think it's necessary to even try to escape it. More and more, I start to think that it's necessary to see exactly what it is that you inherited on both ends of the stick: your timidity, your courage, your self-deceit, and your honesty - and all the rest of it.

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I don't attend costume parties.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: November 5th, 1943

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