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When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There’s nothing stranger than the smell of someone else’s house

Adam Rapp

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
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 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
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
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 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
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
There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
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Exciting Fall Free Life Really Screwed Someone Up
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 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
The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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Best Democratic Idea Pretty Room Tend Win Winning
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 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.
ADAM RAPP

Dream Enjoy Incredibly Life Scary Suffering
Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
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Directing Good Idea Manager Okay Sometimes Stage
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 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.
ADAM RAPP

Actor Auditioning Big Illusive Lying Process Really Work

When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There’s nothing stranger than the smell of someone else’s house

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