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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.

Adam Rapp

I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it.
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Changed Compassion Complicated Forever Overcoming Side Thinking Year
I think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
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Authorship Extension Own Thinking Work Working
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
ADAM RAPP

Anand Thakur
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
Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
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Deep Doctor Found Inside Machine Somewhere
I don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
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Director Hierarchical Room Rooms Sort Totalitarian Type
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
When it’s just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.
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Actor Behaving Couple Room Scene
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
Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
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Directing Good Idea Manager Okay Sometimes Stage
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
Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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Congeal Ice Lung Spiderweb Stomach
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’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
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
You can’t run forever.
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Forever Run Running Sky

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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