Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
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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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 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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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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I know that something inevitable will happen.
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What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
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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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I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
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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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Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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Mary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
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For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.
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There’s only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky.
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I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
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