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You don’t really develop feelings about a place till you’ve left it. It’s like a girl or a dog.

Adam Rapp

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
So I started to think like, “well if I’m going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct”.
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Against Direct Fight Going Learn Like Should Started Think
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
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
I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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Anand Thakur
I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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Actor Designer Working Writing
And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet
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Access Automobile Internet Jet Public Transporation
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
It’s strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can’t even answer it.
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Answer Asked People Process Schedule Strange
I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.
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Dream Enjoy Incredibly Life Scary Suffering
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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Actor Along Coffee Down Instinct Shape Sit Way Work
When I’m directing, I’m pretty much not writing, but when I’m not directing I am writing a lot.
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Directing Lot Much Pretty Writing
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 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
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 feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn’t matter.
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Director Hat Matter Playwright Storyteller Wearing

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