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.
ADAM RAPPI try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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But when I’m writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I’m just impossible to get in touch with, and I don’t spend time with friends.
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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 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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So I started to think like, “well if I’m going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct”.
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And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet
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You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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I write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes,
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I don’t mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart
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What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
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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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There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies.
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I know that something inevitable will happen.
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Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system.
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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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There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
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