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 RAPPSometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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When it’s just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.
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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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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
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I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
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If it weren’t for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family’s turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.
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A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
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Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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When I’m directing, I’m pretty much not writing, but when I’m not directing I am writing a lot.
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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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I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
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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.
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I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I’ve lived here for sixteen years.
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I don’t know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady’s, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts.
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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 tend to not write for a long period of time until I can’t not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops.
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