Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
ADAM RAPPThere’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
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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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I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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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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I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
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I think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I’m sensitive to it.
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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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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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I’ve never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater helps.
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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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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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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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Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
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My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
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You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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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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