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

Adam Rapp

I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren’t going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.
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Auditioning Hard Hate Job Really Reductive Thinking
When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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Anything Else Over Take Write
It’s been hard for me to not write, and that’s the only process I can speak to I guess, it’s so compulsive and I need to do it all the time that sometimes I make myself not do it so I can actually tend to my life.
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Guess Hard Need Process Sometimes Speak Write Writing
What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
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Last Learn Learned Merely Storyteller Year
I think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
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Authorship Extension Own Thinking Work Working
Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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Congeal Ice Lung Spiderweb Stomach
I write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes,
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Draft End Novel Play Sometimes Till Write
Whenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.
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Fun Funny Laughing Really Rehearsal
I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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Director Idea Other Stealing Worked
Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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Bowel Grow Humidity Liver Settle Snow Thick
When I’m directing, I’m pretty much not writing, but when I’m not directing I am writing a lot.
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Directing Lot Much Pretty Writing
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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Enough Felt Friend Good Helping Idea Parties Party Really Social Thinking
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
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 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
There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies.
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Death Move House Moving People Some Unwritten Wall

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

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