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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

It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.
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Bearing Bone Important Rest Spend Trying Weight
I think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
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Daunted Huge Little Machinery Play Really Thinking
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
It just happens quicker and faster now.
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Faster Happen Just Now Quicker
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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Entertain Horrible Know More Myself Trying Working
It’s strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can’t even answer it.
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Answer Asked People Process Schedule Strange
I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.
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Dream Enjoy Incredibly Life Scary Suffering
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
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 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
For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.
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Curl Fetal Kitchen Position Reason Right Slept Table
I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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Anand Thakur
A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
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Day Directing Typical Writing
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
Whenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.
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Fun Funny Laughing Really Rehearsal
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 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
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 would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.
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Carefully Community Reform School Staff Support
And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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Behaviour Feeling Inspire Nothing Perfection Repeated
Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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Bowel Grow Humidity Liver Settle Snow Thick
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
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
You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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Escape Much Survive You
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
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.
ADAM RAPP

Cheese Country Cow Drinking Hamburger Helper Look Macroni Milk Year
I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
ADAM RAPP

Director Idea Other Stealing Worked

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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