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I don’t mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart

Adam Rapp

Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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Congeal Ice Lung Spiderweb Stomach
The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
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Artery Colder Evaporate Fills Heart Mist Rain Turn Warm
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.
ADAM RAPP

Cheese Country Cow Drinking Hamburger Helper Look Macroni Milk Year
The same way you can hear a song in your head even if there isn’t a radio playing; the same way you can hear those blackbirds flying when they’re not in the sky
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Blackbird Flying Hear Playing Radio Sky Song
Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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Criticism Distributed Really Town Unevenly
When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I’m a much more practical person in the world,
ADAM RAPP

Different Directing Much World Writing
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.
ADAM RAPP

Actor Along Coffee Down Instinct Shape Sit Way Work
Mary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
ADAM RAPP

Cookies Fireplace Furniture House Lemon Log Oatmeal Polish Smelled
I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can’t not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops.
ADAM RAPP

Draft First Gallops Long Period Tend Until Write
Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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Ago Fifteen Killed Sister Year
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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Actor Concept Keeping Often Room Together Work
You can’t run forever.
ADAM RAPP

Forever Run Running Sky
I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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Compulsive Dog Fall Fast Obsessive Writing
I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
ADAM RAPP

Actor Designer Working Writing
The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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Best Democratic Idea Pretty Room Tend Win Winning
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.
ADAM RAPP

Dream Enjoy Incredibly Life Scary Suffering

I don’t mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart

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