In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
ADAM RAPPI show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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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 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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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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I’ll take a break for a couple weeks for a project that is paying me money like a television project which I try to stay away from just to stay financially ahead of the game.
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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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When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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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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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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I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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I’ve never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater helps.
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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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Mary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
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And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
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I don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
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I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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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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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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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 show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
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I don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
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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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I’ve lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.
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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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