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I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously.

~ Annie Baker

Articulate Enjoy Hearing Important Important Things Impossible Me Most Sound The Most Important Things Voice

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I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant.

~ Annie Baker

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I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again.

~ Annie Baker

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I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing.

~ Annie Baker

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I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.

~ Annie Baker

Anymore Anyway Every God Kid Morning Old Self-Righteous Thank Thank God Up Very Wake Wake Up Year Year-Old

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I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.

~ Annie Baker

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I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont.

~ Annie Baker

Fictional Plays Really Setting Stop Town Trying Vermont

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I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

~ Annie Baker

About Consumed Fear Get Speaking Terrible Work

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I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.

~ Annie Baker

Actor Between Down Everything Happens Importantly Interested Letting Lines More People Play Silence Slowing Stage Talking Things Very

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If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.

~ Annie Baker

Anything College College Students Most Opposite Students Think Who

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Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

~ Annie Baker

Expressing Myself Primary Way Writing

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Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

~ Annie Baker

Controlling Ended Novelist Personality Plays Somehow Up Writing Yeah

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