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I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn’t matter.

Adam Rapp

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 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 put big concepts on my work, and it’s all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting them leave.
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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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Carriage Country Forever People Simple Taking
And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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You can’t run forever.
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Forever Run Running Sky
Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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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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A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
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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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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
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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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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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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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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