It just happens quicker and faster now.
ADAM RAPPI don’t like it when it’s consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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I think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
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And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet
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More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
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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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And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system.
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You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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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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You don’t really develop feelings about a place till you’ve left it. It’s like a girl or a dog.
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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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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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Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
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I’ve been living in Portland for five months and I’m not sure how I feel about it. I probably won’t really know for years because that’s how it works right?
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Mary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
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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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I don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
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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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I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
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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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You can’t run forever.
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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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The scent goes right to your stomach.
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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 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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I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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I don’t put big concepts on my work, and it’s all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting them leave.
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