You can’t run forever.
ADAM RAPPYou have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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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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The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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I think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I’m sensitive to it.
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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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I know that something inevitable will happen.
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I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.
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You don’t really develop feelings about a place till you’ve left it. It’s like a girl or a dog.
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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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The scent goes right to your stomach.
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What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
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Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
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It just happens quicker and faster now.
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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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I’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?
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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 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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I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
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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 show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
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Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
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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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My life has been in shambles, like my personal relationships, my laundry, paying bills now I have someone who pays my bills and it’s always been a challenge because it overwhelms me.
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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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So I started to think like, “well if I’m going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct”.
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