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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

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
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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Cheese Country Cow Drinking Hamburger Helper Look Macroni Milk Year
I think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I’m sensitive to it.
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Anand Thakur
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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Draft First Gallops Long Period Tend Until Write
I know that something inevitable will happen.
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Happen Inevitable Something Will
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’ve been living in Portland for five months and I’m not sure how I feel about it. I probably won’t really know for years because that’s how it works right?
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Country Dog Feel Girl Living Month Sure Year
The same way you can hear a song in your head even if there isn’t a radio playing; the same way you can hear those blackbirds flying when they’re not in the sky
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Blackbird Flying Hear Playing Radio Sky Song
Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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Congeal Ice Lung Spiderweb Stomach
I’ve lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.
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Everything Ignore Lost Lot Relationship
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 don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
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Character Gun Happen Writing
Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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Criticism Distributed Really Town Unevenly
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
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 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 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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