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When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I’m a much more practical person in the world,

Adam Rapp

I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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Appreciated Criticism Important People Play Think Thinking
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
You don’t really develop feelings about a place till you’ve left it. It’s like a girl or a dog.
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Develop Dog Feeling Girl Left Like Place
You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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Escape Much Survive You
Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
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After Another Demolishing Discouraging Killing New Obviously Play Power Time
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 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
You can’t run forever.
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Forever Run Running Sky
If it weren’t for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family’s turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.
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Anand Thakur
When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There’s nothing stranger than the smell of someone else’s house
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House Inside Nothing Oatmeal Smell Stood Stranger
I don’t put big concepts on my work, and it’s all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting them leave.
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Actor Concept Keeping Often Room Together Work
The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
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Artery Colder Evaporate Fills Heart Mist Rain Turn Warm
I’ve never really felt that I’ve had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.
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Clothes Cut Cutting Felt Hair Really Right
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
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 know that they want certain things and they’re in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that.
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Certain Know Room Smell Think Want

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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