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

Adam Rapp

My life has been in shambles, like my personal relationships, my laundry, paying bills now I have someone who pays my bills and it’s always been a challenge because it overwhelms me.
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Bill Challenge Laundry Pay Paying Personal Relationship Shambles
I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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Actor Designer Working Writing
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
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’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 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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Ability Conflict Ending Everyone Fair Minor Write
If it weren’t for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family’s turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.
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Anand Thakur
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
You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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Escape Much Survive You
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
You can’t run forever.
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Forever Run Running Sky
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
Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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Criticism Distributed Really Town Unevenly
I’ve lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.
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Everything Ignore Lost Lot Relationship
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 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
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
My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
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Able Accused Character Each Girlfriend Other Thing
Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
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Deep Doctor Found Inside Machine Somewhere
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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Actor Auditioning Big Illusive Lying Process Really Work
I know that something inevitable will happen.
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Happen Inevitable Something Will
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
The scent goes right to your stomach.
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Goes Right Scent Stomach
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
A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
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Day Directing Typical Writing
If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I’d have someone enter with a machine gun.
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Enter Flash Gun Machine Someone Tried

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