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?
ADAM RAPPThe rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet
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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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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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I’ve never really felt that I’ve had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.
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One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.
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You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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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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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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I know that something inevitable will happen.
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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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Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
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I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
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I don’t know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady’s, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts.
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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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