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

Adam Rapp

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.
ADAM RAPP

Compassion Cruelty Grace Hopefully Ingest Little Sense Think World
The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
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Artery Colder Evaporate Fills Heart Mist Rain Turn Warm
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
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
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
And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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Behaviour Feeling Inspire Nothing Perfection Repeated
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 don’t like it when it’s consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature.
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Advocacy Consumer Criticism Kind Like Literature Should Spend
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
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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Beacon Candle Expire Grief Heart Lighthouse Rain System Temperature
You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
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Escalate Excuse Hardest Keep Keeping Leave Part Tension
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
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 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 began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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Director Idea Other Stealing Worked
What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
ADAM RAPP

Last Learn Learned Merely Storyteller Year

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