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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

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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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
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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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 write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes,
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Draft End Novel Play Sometimes Till Write
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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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 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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And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet
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Mary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
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Cookies Fireplace Furniture House Lemon Log Oatmeal Polish Smelled
When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I’m a much more practical person in the world,
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Different Directing Much World Writing
I’ve never really felt that I’ve had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.
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The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
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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.
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When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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Anything Else Over Take Write
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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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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