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Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.

Adam Rapp

There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies.
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Death Move House Moving People Some Unwritten Wall
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
Mary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
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Cookies Fireplace Furniture House Lemon Log Oatmeal Polish Smelled
I think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I’m sensitive to it.
ADAM RAPP

Anand Thakur
Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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Congeal Ice Lung Spiderweb Stomach
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
Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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Ago Fifteen Killed Sister Year
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
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.
ADAM RAPP

Guess Hard Need Process Sometimes Speak Write Writing
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
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
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.
ADAM RAPP

Big Friend Impossible Irresponsible Mess Spend Time Touch Writing
And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
ADAM RAPP

Behaviour Feeling Inspire Nothing Perfection Repeated
If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I’d have someone enter with a machine gun.
ADAM RAPP

Enter Flash Gun Machine Someone Tried
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.
ADAM RAPP

Bearing Bone Important Rest Spend Trying Weight
I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn’t matter.
ADAM RAPP

Director Hat Matter Playwright Storyteller Wearing

Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.

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