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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

And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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Behaviour Feeling Inspire Nothing Perfection Repeated
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
I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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Appreciated Criticism Important People Play Think Thinking
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
You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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Always Count Country Cutting Leg Time
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
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
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
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 feel that I’d rather know an actors’ work, or have an instinct about them and sit down and have coffee with them, or I’ll see them in something and I’ll see if I can get along with them in some way, shape, or form.
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Actor Along Coffee Down Instinct Shape Sit Way Work
It’s been hard for me to not write, and that’s the only process I can speak to I guess, it’s so compulsive and I need to do it all the time that sometimes I make myself not do it so I can actually tend to my life.
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Guess Hard Need Process Sometimes Speak Write Writing
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.
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Big Friend Impossible Irresponsible Mess Spend Time Touch Writing
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 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
I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
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Couple Game More Possible Three Try Two Writing
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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