I’ve lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.
ADAM RAPPCriticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.
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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.
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I know that something inevitable will happen.
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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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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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You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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Whenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.
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It just happens quicker and faster now.
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Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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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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I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
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We’re so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
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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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You can’t run forever.
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The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
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And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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There’s only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky.
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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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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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What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
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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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Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
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I don’t mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart
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The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
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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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