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Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.

Adam Rapp

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 began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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Director Idea Other Stealing Worked
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
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
The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
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Exit High Simple So Someone Stake
You don’t really develop feelings about a place till you’ve left it. It’s like a girl or a dog.
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Develop Dog Feeling Girl Left Like Place
The scent goes right to your stomach.
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Goes Right Scent Stomach
But when I’m writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I’m just impossible to get in touch with, and I don’t spend time with friends.
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Big Friend Impossible Irresponsible Mess Spend Time Touch Writing
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
You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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Always Count Country Cutting Leg Time
I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn’t intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play
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Anand Thakur
I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
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Couple Game More Possible Three Try Two Writing
When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I’m a much more practical person in the world,
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Different Directing Much World Writing
I’ve written some criticism, and I really enjoy it because I think it’s important for people to know that theatre is vital.
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Enjoy Important People Really Theatre Vital Written
I don’t mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart
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Heart Mind Much Song Talking Voice
I think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
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Daunted Huge Little Machinery Play Really Thinking

Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.

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