More from Adam Rapp
I don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
Adam RappAdam Rapp 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.
Adam RappAdam Rapp It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.
Adam RappAdam Rapp 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.
Adam RappAdam Rapp The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
Adam RappAdam Rapp And you can’t go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.
Adam RappAdam Rapp I’ve written some criticism, and I really enjoy it because I think it’s important for people to know that theatre is vital.
Adam RappAdam Rapp 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 RappAdam Rapp My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
Adam RappAdam Rapp But when I’m writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I’m just impossible to get in touch with, and I don’t spend time with friends.
Adam RappAdam Rapp I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
Adam RappAdam Rapp 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.
Adam RappAdam Rapp I won’t eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him.
Adam RappAdam Rapp I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
Adam RappAdam Rapp More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
Adam RappAdam Rapp 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.
Adam RappAdam Rapp
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BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
Bobby KnightBobby Knight What kind of hang-ups does that person have?’ Obviously, it’s not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that.
Billie Joe ArmstrongBillie Joe Armstrong When one is perfectly still-mind and body, silent and alone-there is no personality to speak of, thus personality is one’s unique way of expression, it is what others see and know of us, nothing more or deeper than that.
Bernadette RobertsBernadette Roberts By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin He tasted deeper, holding himself over me, and suddenly he was everywhere; his knee trapping my leg, his lips grazing warm, rough, sensuous. He splayed his hand at the small of my back, holding me tightly, driving me to sink my fingers deeper into him, clinging to him as if letting go would mean losing part of myself.
Becca FitzpatrickBecca Fitzpatrick Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman’s power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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