We’re so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
ADAM RAPPGrief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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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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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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Whenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.
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For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.
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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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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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Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
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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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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 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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And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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It’s strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can’t even answer it.
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I write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes,
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I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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And you can’t go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.
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