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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

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
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 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
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
ADAM RAPP

Anand Thakur
For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.
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Curl Fetal Kitchen Position Reason Right Slept Table
When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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Anything Else Over Take Write
Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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Congeal Ice Lung Spiderweb Stomach
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 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
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
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
Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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Bowel Grow Humidity Liver Settle Snow Thick
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 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
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
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
ADAM RAPP

Blackbird Flying Hear Playing Radio Sky Song
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
I don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
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Director Hierarchical Room Rooms Sort Totalitarian Type
One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.
ADAM RAPP

Anand Thakur
We’re so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
ADAM RAPP

Designed Destroy Distracted Faster Happen Now Quicker
You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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Escape Much Survive You
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
My work is always more emotional than I am.
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Always Character Emotional Girlfriend More
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
You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
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Escalate Excuse Hardest Keep Keeping Leave Part Tension
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
Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
ADAM RAPP

Directing Good Idea Manager Okay Sometimes Stage

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.

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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.

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