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Mary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.

Adam Rapp

You don’t really develop feelings about a place till you’ve left it. It’s like a girl or a dog.
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Develop Dog Feeling Girl Left Like Place
And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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Behaviour Feeling Inspire Nothing Perfection Repeated
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’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
Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
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Deeper Heart Put Somewhere
When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I’m a much more practical person in the world,
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Different Directing Much World 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
I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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Director Idea Other Stealing Worked
In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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Carriage Country Forever People Simple Taking
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
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
It’s strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can’t even answer it.
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Answer Asked People Process Schedule Strange
You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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Escape Much Survive You
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
Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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Bowel Grow Humidity Liver Settle Snow Thick
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

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