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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.

Adam Rapp

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
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
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 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
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
I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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Compulsive Dog Fall Fast Obsessive Writing
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 know that something inevitable will happen.
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Happen Inevitable Something Will
Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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Congeal Ice Lung Spiderweb Stomach
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
You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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Always Count Country Cutting Leg Time
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
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
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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Anand Thakur
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 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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Draft First Gallops Long Period Tend Until Write

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