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Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system.

Adam Rapp

I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I’ve lived here for sixteen years.
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Cheese Country Cow Drinking Hamburger Helper Look Macroni Milk Year
Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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Congeal Ice Lung Spiderweb Stomach
In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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Carriage Country Forever People Simple Taking
When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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Anything Else Over Take Write
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 tend to not write for a long period of time until I can’t not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops.
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Draft First Gallops Long Period Tend Until Write
You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
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Escalate Excuse Hardest Keep Keeping Leave Part Tension
I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren’t going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.
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Auditioning Hard Hate Job Really Reductive Thinking
My work is always more emotional than I am.
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Always Character Emotional Girlfriend More
I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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Compulsive Dog Fall Fast Obsessive Writing
What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
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Last Learn Learned Merely Storyteller Year
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’ve been living in Portland for five months and I’m not sure how I feel about it. I probably won’t really know for years because that’s how it works right?
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Country Dog Feel Girl Living Month Sure Year
I feel that I’d rather know an actors’ work, or have an instinct about them and sit down and have coffee with them, or I’ll see them in something and I’ll see if I can get along with them in some way, shape, or form.
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I don’t like it when it’s consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature.
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Advocacy Consumer Criticism Kind Like Literature Should Spend
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

Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system.

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Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system.

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