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A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.

Adam Rapp

I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn’t matter.
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Director Hat Matter Playwright Storyteller Wearing
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’ve been living in Portland for five months and I’m not sure how I feel about it. I probably won’t really know for years because that’s how it works right?
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Country Dog Feel Girl Living Month Sure Year
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’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
Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
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After Another Demolishing Discouraging Killing New Obviously Play Power Time
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
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
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
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 appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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Appreciated Criticism Important People Play Think 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 don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
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Director Hierarchical Room Rooms Sort Totalitarian Type
We’re so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
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Designed Destroy Distracted Faster Happen Now Quicker
I find that more and more I’m trying to entertain myself when I’m working, because I know the work’s going to go to a horrible place.
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Entertain Horrible Know More Myself Trying Working
I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
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Couple Game More Possible Three Try Two Writing
Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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Ago Fifteen Killed Sister Year
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 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 imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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Anand Thakur
You can’t run forever.
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Forever Run Running Sky
I think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
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Daunted Huge Little Machinery Play Really Thinking
For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.
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Curl Fetal Kitchen Position Reason Right Slept Table
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
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
And you can’t go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.
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Anywhere Kind Plane Rocket Sky Some Unless
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

A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.

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