And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
ADAM RAPPIn Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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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 heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
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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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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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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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Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
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You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
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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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I write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes,
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There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
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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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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 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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