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I’ve lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.

Adam Rapp

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
Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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Congeal Ice Lung Spiderweb Stomach
I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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Director Idea Other Stealing Worked
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 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.
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Cheese Country Cow Drinking Hamburger Helper Look Macroni Milk Year
I’ve written some criticism, and I really enjoy it because I think it’s important for people to know that theatre is vital.
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Enjoy Important People Really Theatre Vital Written
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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Compassion Cruelty Grace Hopefully Ingest Little Sense Think World
I’ve lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.
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Everything Ignore Lost Lot Relationship
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
When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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Anything Else Over Take Write
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
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
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
I feel that I’d rather know an actors’ work, or have an instinct about them and sit down and have coffee with them, or I’ll see them in something and I’ll see if I can get along with them in some way, shape, or form.
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Actor Along Coffee Down Instinct Shape Sit Way Work
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
The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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Best Democratic Idea Pretty Room Tend Win Winning

I’ve lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.

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