When I’m directing, I’m pretty much not writing, but when I’m not directing I am writing a lot.
ADAM RAPPI’ll take a break for a couple weeks for a project that is paying me money like a television project which I try to stay away from just to stay financially ahead of the game.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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If it weren’t for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family’s turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.
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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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One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.
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And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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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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The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
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But when I’m writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I’m just impossible to get in touch with, and I don’t spend time with friends.
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I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it.
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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’ve never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater helps.
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The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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I feel that I’d rather know an actors’ work, or have an instinct about them and sit down and have coffee with them, or I’ll see them in something and I’ll see if I can get along with them in some way, shape, or form.
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