You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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Anand Thakur
You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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I don’t like it when it’s consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature.
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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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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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I think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
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I think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
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Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
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What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
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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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It just happens quicker and faster now.
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There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies.
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Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
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I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
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If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I’d have someone enter with a machine gun.
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My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
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