I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
ADAM RAPPThe stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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I think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I’m sensitive to it.
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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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There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
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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.
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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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Mary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
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More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
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I know that something inevitable will happen.
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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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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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It just happens quicker and faster now.
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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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I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
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