I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
ADAM RAPPWhen it’s just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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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 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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It just happens quicker and faster now.
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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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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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You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
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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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Mary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
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Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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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 won’t eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him.
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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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The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
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