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Adam Rapp

Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
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Directing Good Idea Manager Okay Sometimes Stage
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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Bearing Bone Important Rest Spend Trying Weight
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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Ahead Financial Game Money Television
I’ve lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.
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Everything Ignore Lost Lot Relationship
When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I’m a much more practical person in the world,
ADAM RAPP

Different Directing Much World Writing
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.
ADAM RAPP

Highway Maker North Pavement Quit Road Sky Turn
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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Beacon Candle Expire Grief Heart Lighthouse Rain System Temperature
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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Actor Concept Keeping Often Room Together Work
Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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Congeal Ice Lung Spiderweb Stomach
You don’t really develop feelings about a place till you’ve left it. It’s like a girl or a dog.
ADAM RAPP

Develop Dog Feeling Girl Left Like Place
I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
ADAM RAPP

Focus Focused Rigorous Scheduling Show Time
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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Draft First Gallops Long Period Tend Until Write
We’re so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
ADAM RAPP

Designed Destroy Distracted Faster Happen Now Quicker
I think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
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Authorship Extension Own Thinking Work Working
You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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Always Count Country Cutting Leg Time
My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
ADAM RAPP

Able Accused Character Each Girlfriend Other Thing

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