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I’ve lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.

Adam Rapp

I know that they want certain things and they’re in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that.
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Certain Know Room Smell Think Want
I don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
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Character Gun Happen Writing
Mary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
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Cookies Fireplace Furniture House Lemon Log Oatmeal Polish Smelled
The scent goes right to your stomach.
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Goes Right Scent Stomach
I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.
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Compassion Cruelty Grace Hopefully Ingest Little Sense Think World
I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.
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Carefully Community Reform School Staff Support
Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
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Deeper Heart Put Somewhere
I’ve never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater helps.
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Enough Felt Friend Good Helping Idea Parties Party Really Social Thinking
One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.
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Anand Thakur
The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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Best Democratic Idea Pretty Room Tend Win Winning
There’s only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky.
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Highway Maker North Pavement Quit Road Sky Turn
It’s been hard for me to not write, and that’s the only process I can speak to I guess, it’s so compulsive and I need to do it all the time that sometimes I make myself not do it so I can actually tend to my life.
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Guess Hard Need Process Sometimes Speak Write Writing
I think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
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Authorship Extension Own Thinking Work Working
My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
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Able Accused Character Each Girlfriend Other Thing
I find that more and more I’m trying to entertain myself when I’m working, because I know the work’s going to go to a horrible place.
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Entertain Horrible Know More Myself Trying Working
There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies.
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Death Move House Moving People Some Unwritten Wall

I’ve lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.

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