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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

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
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
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Blackbird Flying Hear Playing Radio Sky Song
You can’t run forever.
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Forever Run Running Sky
I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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Appreciated Criticism Important People Play Think Thinking
You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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Always Count Country Cutting Leg Time
And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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Behaviour Feeling Inspire Nothing Perfection Repeated
You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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Escape Much Survive You
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.
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Cheese Country Cow Drinking Hamburger Helper Look Macroni Milk Year
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 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 think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it.
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Changed Compassion Complicated Forever Overcoming Side Thinking Year
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
When I’m directing, I’m pretty much not writing, but when I’m not directing I am writing a lot.
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Directing Lot Much Pretty Writing
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 show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
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Focus Focused Rigorous Scheduling Show Time
I think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I’m sensitive to it.
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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

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