If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I’d have someone enter with a machine gun.
ADAM RAPPWhen I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There’s nothing stranger than the smell of someone else’s house
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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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 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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The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
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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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The same way you can hear a song in your head even if there isn’t a radio playing; the same way you can hear those blackbirds flying when they’re not in the sky
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There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
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I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it.
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I 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.
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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 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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Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
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Mary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
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I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it’s a lie already at work.
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