The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
ADAM RAPPI 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.
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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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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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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A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
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Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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I’ve lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.
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And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet
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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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I don’t know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady’s, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts.
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Whenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.
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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 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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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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