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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.

Adam Rapp

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 scent goes right to your stomach.
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Goes Right Scent Stomach
If it weren’t for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family’s turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.
ADAM RAPP

Anand Thakur
I think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
ADAM RAPP

Authorship Extension Own Thinking Work Working
I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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Compulsive Dog Fall Fast Obsessive Writing
For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.
ADAM RAPP

Curl Fetal Kitchen Position Reason Right Slept Table
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.
ADAM RAPP

Ability Conflict Ending Everyone Fair Minor Write
So I started to think like, “well if I’m going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct”.
ADAM RAPP

Against Direct Fight Going Learn Like Should Started Think
What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
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Last Learn Learned Merely Storyteller Year
Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
ADAM RAPP

Bowel Grow Humidity Liver Settle Snow Thick
I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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Director Idea Other Stealing Worked
I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
ADAM RAPP

East Movie Portray Think Thinking Village
And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet
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Access Automobile Internet Jet Public Transporation
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 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.
ADAM RAPP

Carefully Community Reform School Staff Support
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 RAPP

Country Dog Feel Girl Living Month Sure Year

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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