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.
ADAM RAPPWhenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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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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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
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I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
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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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Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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I don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
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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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I think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
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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 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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I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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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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I won’t eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him.
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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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