One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.
ADAM RAPPThe scent goes right to your stomach.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.
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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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You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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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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When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I’m a much more practical person in the world,
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And you can’t go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.
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More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
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I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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We’re so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
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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’ll take a break for a couple weeks for a project that is paying me money like a television project which I try to stay away from just to stay financially ahead of the game.
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I know that something inevitable will happen.
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Whenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.
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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 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’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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Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
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I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
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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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When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There’s nothing stranger than the smell of someone else’s house
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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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It just happens quicker and faster now.
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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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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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