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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?

Adam Rapp

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
I’ve lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.
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Everything Ignore Lost Lot Relationship
And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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Behaviour Feeling Inspire Nothing Perfection Repeated
A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
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Day Directing Typical Writing
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
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
I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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Appreciated Criticism Important People Play Think Thinking
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
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 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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Ability Conflict Ending Everyone Fair Minor 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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Dog Eat Forget Laundry Now Remember Right Walk
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
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
You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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Escape Much Survive You
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
So I started to think like, “well if I’m going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct”.
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Against Direct Fight Going Learn Like Should Started Think

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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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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