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The scent goes right to your stomach.

Adam Rapp

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
ADAM RAPP

Blackbird Flying Hear Playing Radio Sky Song
In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
ADAM RAPP

Carriage Country Forever People Simple Taking
It’s been hard for me to not write, and that’s the only process I can speak to I guess, it’s so compulsive and I need to do it all the time that sometimes I make myself not do it so I can actually tend to my life.
ADAM RAPP

Guess Hard Need Process Sometimes Speak Write Writing
Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
ADAM RAPP

Congeal Ice Lung Spiderweb Stomach
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.
ADAM RAPP

Bearing Bone Important Rest Spend Trying Weight
A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
ADAM RAPP

Day Directing Typical Writing
The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
ADAM RAPP

Best Democratic Idea Pretty Room Tend Win Winning
I write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes,
ADAM RAPP

Draft End Novel Play Sometimes Till Write
I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
ADAM RAPP

Actor Designer Working Writing
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.
ADAM RAPP

Bill Challenge Laundry Pay Paying Personal Relationship Shambles
The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
ADAM RAPP

Artery Colder Evaporate Fills Heart Mist Rain Turn Warm
I don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
ADAM RAPP

Director Hierarchical Room Rooms Sort Totalitarian Type
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.
ADAM RAPP

Draft First Gallops Long Period Tend Until Write
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.
ADAM RAPP

Escalate Excuse Hardest Keep Keeping Leave Part Tension
My work is always more emotional than I am.
ADAM RAPP

Always Character Emotional Girlfriend More
We’re so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
ADAM RAPP

Designed Destroy Distracted Faster Happen Now Quicker

The scent goes right to your stomach.

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