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“I know how much respect I have for people of all different faiths, but especially for my family, who are the most important people in my life, and who are still practicing, and deeply religious.”

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“Suddenly you're at church and you hear someone pray, "For gays and lesbians, that they might realize their [sins]...." That's happening less and less now, but all it takes is one of those when you're nine, ten, eleven, twelve - and it's hard to describe to people who aren't, because of course if you're not gay, an eleven- or twelve-year-old wouldn't even remember that that happened.”

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Author:Stephen Karam

“I'm always very self-conscious and assume the way faith or religion might come up in my plays will seem very harsh to people of faith, or who are currently practicing.”

People Way Self Play Seems Might Conscious Assuming Come Up Harsh Self Conscious

Author:Stephen Karam

“Writing plays for me is often an act of looking at basement-level fears in terms of where they come from.”

Writing Play Term Levels Basements

Author:Stephen Karam

“The best work that I am able to do is when I am willing to write about questions I haven't quite figured out, or things I'm really wrestling with, things that keep me up at night.”

Writing Able Night Havens Willing Wrestling Best Work

Author:Stephen Karam

“I do think it's fascinating to see a play where everybody's sort of, in various ways, uprooted, and you see the older generation, the parents, whose faith has been something concrete that has guided them through a specific set of hurdles and circumstances.”

Thinking Way Has Beens Play Parent Generations Circumstances Various Fascinating Concrete Hurdle Older Generation

Author:Stephen Karam

“In reality, life was arranged and human relations were complicated so utterly beyond all understanding that when one thought about it one felt uncanny and one's heart sank.”

Humans Heart Reality Felt Understanding Relation Complicated Human Relations Uncanny

Author:Stephen Karam

“I guess we all feel like underdogs. I remember being a freshman at Brown University and not knowing what a WASP was. We were reading an Edward Albee play, and - it was just a moment of accepting, certainly that I wasn't very worldly, but also that a lot of the plays that I'd been reading, let's say other kinds of family plays, were speaking a foreign language.”

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Author:Stephen Karam

“So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the kind of strange dysfunction that exists even among deeply functional families.”

Kind Has Beens Certain Interest Strange Drama Great American Dysfunction Dysfunctional Family

Author:Stephen Karam

“There's this unspoken history that exists between any mother and daughter, no matter how deep and loving the bond is, twenty-five years of being raised by someone, there's a kind of deep history which means that there are shortcuts to getting on each other's nerves.”

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Author:Stephen Karam

“I went into designing my house thinking I could have some more expensive items because I didn't realize my kids were going to be animals.”

Thinking Kids House Realizing Animal Design Expensive Items

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