Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
ADAM RAPPIt 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.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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I don’t like it when it’s consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature.
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Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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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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I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn’t matter.
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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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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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If it weren’t for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family’s turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.
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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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You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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When I’m directing, I’m pretty much not writing, but when I’m not directing I am writing a lot.
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We’re so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
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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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A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
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