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You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.

Adam Rapp

If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I’d have someone enter with a machine gun.
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Enter Flash Gun Machine Someone Tried
If it weren’t for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family’s turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.
ADAM RAPP

Anand Thakur
I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
ADAM RAPP

Anand Thakur
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
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
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.
ADAM RAPP

Guess Hard Need Process Sometimes Speak Write Writing
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
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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Beacon Candle Expire Grief Heart Lighthouse Rain System Temperature
When I’m directing, I’m pretty much not writing, but when I’m not directing I am writing a lot.
ADAM RAPP

Directing Lot Much Pretty Writing
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
When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
ADAM RAPP

Anything Else Over Take Write
Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
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After Another Demolishing Discouraging Killing New Obviously Play Power Time
One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.
ADAM RAPP

Anand Thakur
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
The scent goes right to your stomach.
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Goes Right Scent Stomach
I’ll take a break for a couple weeks for a project that is paying me money like a television project which I try to stay away from just to stay financially ahead of the game.
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Ahead Financial Game Money Television

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