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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
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
When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
ADAM RAPP

Anything Else Over Take Write
I think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
ADAM RAPP

Daunted Huge Little Machinery Play Really Thinking
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 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 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.
ADAM RAPP

Actor Along Coffee Down Instinct Shape Sit Way Work
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.
ADAM RAPP

Actor Concept Keeping Often Room Together Work
The scent goes right to your stomach.
ADAM RAPP

Goes Right Scent Stomach
The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
ADAM RAPP

Exit High Simple So Someone Stake
There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
ADAM RAPP

Exciting Fall Free Life Really Screwed Someone Up
I find that more and more I’m trying to entertain myself when I’m working, because I know the work’s going to go to a horrible place.
ADAM RAPP

Entertain Horrible Know More Myself Trying Working
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.
ADAM RAPP

Carefully Community Reform School Staff Support
I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
ADAM RAPP

Couple Game More Possible Three Try Two Writing
A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
ADAM RAPP

Day Directing Typical Writing
I won’t eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him.
ADAM RAPP

Dog Eat Forget Laundry Now Remember Right Walk

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