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Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!

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You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.

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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

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I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?

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I don't belong much anywhere.

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A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.

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When you listen intensely to anything, you see how it can be improved.

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I remember, as a kid, going into other people's houses. Everything was different. The smells in the kitchen were different; the clothing was different. That bothered me. There's something very mysterious about other families and the way they function.

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I wrote 'Buried Child' in a trailer at an old ranch house we had in California.

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People are starved for the truth, and when something comes along that even looks like the truth, people will latch onto it because everything's so false.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: November 5th, 1943

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