Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
Edward AlbeeRead
I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret.
Interpretation
Embrace life fully and take risks to avoid regrets.
This quote emphasizes the importance of living life to its fullest and taking risks, as life is fleeting and we only experience it once. Albee encourages us to confront our fears and seize opportunities, suggesting that a life filled with regrets is the ultimate failure.
In practice
In a motivational speech about living life fully.
Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.
I am convinced that no one is fully educated without a full grounding in the arts.
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
It's quite liberating to get to a certain age, 'cos you're not chasing number one hits or trying to be an international superstar. I've done all that. I'm not out to prove much more to anyone but myself really, to be an artist and see if there is a new undiscovered music out there for me to make.
As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
I don't want to die an old lady.
At sixteen, Sabina took moon baths, first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous.
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
While new rights are attributed to or indeed almost presumed by the individual, life is not always protected as the primary value and the primordial right of every human being. The ultimate aim of medicine remains the defence and promotion of life.
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