I don’t like it when it’s consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature.
ADAM RAPPI think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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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 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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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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Mary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
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So I started to think like, “well if I’m going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct”.
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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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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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You can’t run forever.
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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I’m a much more practical person in the world,
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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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I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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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 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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The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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