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There’s only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky.

Adam Rapp

You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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Escape Much Survive You
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 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 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
My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
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Able Accused Character Each Girlfriend Other Thing
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
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 don’t put big concepts on my work, and it’s all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting them leave.
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Actor Concept Keeping Often Room Together Work
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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Develop Dog Feeling Girl Left Like Place
Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
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Deep Doctor Found Inside Machine Somewhere
I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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Compulsive Dog Fall Fast Obsessive Writing
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 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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Auditioning Hard Hate Job Really Reductive Thinking
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 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
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
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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House Inside Nothing Oatmeal Smell Stood Stranger
In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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Carriage Country Forever People Simple Taking
There’s only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky.
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Highway Maker North Pavement Quit Road Sky Turn
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
Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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Criticism Distributed Really Town Unevenly
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
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
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 know that something inevitable will happen.
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Happen Inevitable Something Will
I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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I don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
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Character Gun Happen Writing

There’s only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky.

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