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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.

Adam Rapp

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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Big Friend Impossible Irresponsible Mess Spend Time Touch Writing
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
The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
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Exit High Simple So Someone Stake
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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Anand Thakur
I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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Anand Thakur
Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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Criticism Distributed Really Town Unevenly
I’ll take a break for a couple weeks for a project that is paying me money like a television project which I try to stay away from just to stay financially ahead of the game.
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Ahead Financial Game Money Television
A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
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Day Directing Typical 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
Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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Congeal Ice Lung Spiderweb Stomach
I don’t put big concepts on my work, and it’s all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting them leave.
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Actor Concept Keeping Often Room Together Work
In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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Carriage Country Forever People Simple Taking
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
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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Bearing Bone Important Rest Spend Trying Weight
I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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Director Idea Other Stealing Worked
You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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Always Count Country Cutting Leg Time

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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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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