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

Adam Rapp

I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it’s a lie already at work.
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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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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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I’ve lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.
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I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it.
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I think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
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The scent goes right to your stomach.
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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
Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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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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I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn’t intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play
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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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I don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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And you can’t go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.
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I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
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When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.

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