Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
ADAM RAPPThe 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
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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I’ve never really felt that I’ve had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.
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You can’t run forever.
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I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
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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 began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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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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When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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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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Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I’d have someone enter with a machine gun.
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The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
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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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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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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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