The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
ADAM RAPPI think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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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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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.
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I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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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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You can’t run forever.
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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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I’ve been living in Portland for five months and I’m not sure how I feel about it. I probably won’t really know for years because that’s how it works right?
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I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it’s a lie already at work.
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One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.
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You don’t really develop feelings about a place till you’ve left it. It’s like a girl or a dog.
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I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn’t intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play
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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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There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies.
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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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