Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
ADAM RAPPIn Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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You can’t run forever.
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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.
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Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
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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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More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
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Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady’s, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts.
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The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
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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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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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