If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I’d have someone enter with a machine gun.
ADAM RAPPI feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn’t matter.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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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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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.
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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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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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Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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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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You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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It’s been hard for me to not write, and that’s the only process I can speak to I guess, it’s so compulsive and I need to do it all the time that sometimes I make myself not do it so I can actually tend to my life.
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The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
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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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I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it.
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I’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.
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I know that something inevitable will happen.
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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 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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Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
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When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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My life has been in shambles, like my personal relationships, my laundry, paying bills now I have someone who pays my bills and it’s always been a challenge because it overwhelms me.
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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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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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I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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I find that more and more I’m trying to entertain myself when I’m working, because I know the work’s going to go to a horrible place.
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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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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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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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