Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
ADAM RAPPI’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?
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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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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Whenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.
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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 know that they want certain things and they’re in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that.
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I don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
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Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
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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.
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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.
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Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I’m a much more practical person in the world,
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There’s only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky.
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I’ll take a break for a couple weeks for a project that is paying me money like a television project which I try to stay away from just to stay financially ahead of the game.
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