There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
ADAM RAPPI’ve lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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Mary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
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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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I think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
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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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Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
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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.
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I’ve never really felt that I’ve had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.
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I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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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 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.
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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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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.
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One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.
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When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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