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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

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
The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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Best Democratic Idea Pretty Room Tend Win Winning
The scent goes right to your stomach.
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Goes Right Scent Stomach
I think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I’m sensitive to it.
ADAM RAPP

Anand Thakur
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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Guess Hard Need Process Sometimes Speak Write Writing
The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
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Exit High Simple So Someone Stake
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
I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
ADAM RAPP

Appreciated Criticism Important People Play Think Thinking
I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it’s a lie already at work.
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Actor Auditioning Big Illusive Lying Process Really Work
I know that they want certain things and they’re in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that.
ADAM RAPP

Certain Know Room Smell Think Want
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
Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system.
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Beacon Candle Expire Grief Heart Lighthouse Rain System Temperature
I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren’t going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.
ADAM RAPP

Auditioning Hard Hate Job Really Reductive Thinking
I won’t eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him.
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Dog Eat Forget Laundry Now Remember Right Walk
And you can’t go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.
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Anywhere Kind Plane Rocket Sky Some Unless
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

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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