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Theresa Rebeck

Profession : Playwright

Birth : February 19, 1958

Moliere and Arthur Miller affected me at a very young age. In adulthood, I became overwhelmed by Chekhov. Those are my big theatrical influences.

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I do believe that there are monsters out there - and that they are monsters.

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Everyone pays lip service to this whole idea of doing more new plays, and nobody ever does it.

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I have huge admiration for Jesus Christ and for his incredible compassion for all people.

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I'm not afraid of just cranking it out and seeing what comes out of my subconscious. Because I don't always know what I'm feeling. I do a lot of rewriting later. But that first blast feels like a spigot - like it's coming from somewhere else.

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I like to write. Prolific is part of who I am.

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It's not my responsibility to write plays about the way the world should be.

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Spielberg read the 'Understudy' and decided that was the voice he wanted to write 'Smash.' He wanted a story that had humanity and humor and high-stakes dreams.

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I have admiration for people who can do it well - the guys who wrote 'Cheers' and 'Frasier.' They created sort of a blissful comedic universe.

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The stage gives you more control over your own work; in television, there's a distressing amount of communal writing. Unless it's your show, you have no control over that. You're at the mercy of whoever's running the show.

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I find a lot of input from other people very stressful.

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One thing I won't do in television is a sitcom. I find that world to be so neurotic and bizarre.

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I think we have a cultural difficulty with looking at our problems.

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I'm not ashamed of being American; I'm very proud.

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We have this powerful ideological basis to the country that I don't think any other country in the world quite can brag about. It's a very complicated nation, and it's very fertile.

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Why is being a female having an agenda any more than being a misogynist - which David Mamet most certainly is?

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I think it's straight men who are oblivious to goodness or badness to dates. That's probably unfair. Maybe they just don't complain as much.

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The ridiculous way that workplace politics are conducted completely gets in the way of excellence in America.

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I had such a good experience doing 'The Understudy' with the Roundabout, and people were really enthusiastic about the work.

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I sincerely believe that for the New York theatre to remain relevant, all our major producing institutions should be presenting new American plays.

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