When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I’m a much more practical person in the world,
ADAM RAPPI would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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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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I’ve never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater helps.
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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 write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes,
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I feel that I’d rather know an actors’ work, or have an instinct about them and sit down and have coffee with them, or I’ll see them in something and I’ll see if I can get along with them in some way, shape, or form.
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If it weren’t for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family’s turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.
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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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I don’t mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart
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The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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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’ve written some criticism, and I really enjoy it because I think it’s important for people to know that theatre is vital.
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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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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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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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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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