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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

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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Bearing Bone Important Rest Spend Trying Weight
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
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
It’s strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can’t even answer it.
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Answer Asked People Process Schedule Strange
I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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Compulsive Dog Fall Fast Obsessive Writing
You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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Escape Much Survive You
I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.
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Compassion Cruelty Grace Hopefully Ingest Little Sense Think World
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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Enter Flash Gun Machine Someone Tried
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
And you can’t go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.
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Anywhere Kind Plane Rocket Sky Some Unless
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
I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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Actor Designer Working Writing
And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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Behaviour Feeling Inspire Nothing Perfection Repeated
Whenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.
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Fun Funny Laughing Really Rehearsal
When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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Anything Else Over Take Write
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

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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