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.
ADAM RAPPMary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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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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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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More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
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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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You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn’t intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play
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You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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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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You can’t run forever.
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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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We’re so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.
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The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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