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When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.

Adam Rapp

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
But when I’m writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I’m just impossible to get in touch with, and I don’t spend time with friends.
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Big Friend Impossible Irresponsible Mess Spend Time Touch Writing
The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
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Exit High Simple So Someone Stake
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
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 want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
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Escalate Excuse Hardest Keep Keeping Leave Part Tension
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
We’re so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
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Designed Destroy Distracted Faster Happen Now Quicker
You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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Always Count Country Cutting Leg Time
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
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 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 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
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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Highway Maker North Pavement Quit Road Sky Turn
I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
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East Movie Portray Think Thinking Village
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

When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.

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