The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
ADAM RAPPIce congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
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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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I’ve never really felt that I’ve had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.
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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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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 think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
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Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
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I don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
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Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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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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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 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’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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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 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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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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There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
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I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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You can’t run forever.
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And you can’t go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.
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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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Whenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.
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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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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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I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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