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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

Whenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.
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Fun Funny Laughing Really Rehearsal
I’ve never really felt that I’ve had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.
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Clothes Cut Cutting Felt Hair Really Right
The same way you can hear a song in your head even if there isn’t a radio playing; the same way you can hear those blackbirds flying when they’re not in the sky
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Blackbird Flying Hear Playing Radio Sky Song
I don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
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Character Gun Happen Writing
I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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Appreciated Criticism Important People Play Think Thinking
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.
ADAM RAPP

Cheese Country Cow Drinking Hamburger Helper Look Macroni Milk Year
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 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
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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Dog Eat Forget Laundry Now Remember Right Walk
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
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
Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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Criticism Distributed Really Town Unevenly
Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
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Deeper Heart Put Somewhere
I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
ADAM RAPP

Anand Thakur
When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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Anything Else Over Take Write
The scent goes right to your stomach.
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Goes Right Scent Stomach
One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.
ADAM RAPP

Anand Thakur
I don’t mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart
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Heart Mind Much Song Talking Voice
And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet
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Access Automobile Internet Jet Public Transporation
More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
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Creep Entropy Happen Inevitable More Strangles
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.
ADAM RAPP

Anand Thakur
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
You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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Escape Much Survive You
Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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Ago Fifteen Killed Sister Year
I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it.
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Changed Compassion Complicated Forever Overcoming Side Thinking Year
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

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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