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Adam Rapp

I won’t eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him.
ADAM RAPP

Dog Eat Forget Laundry Now Remember Right Walk
There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies.
ADAM RAPP

Death Move House Moving People Some Unwritten Wall
When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There’s nothing stranger than the smell of someone else’s house
ADAM RAPP

House Inside Nothing Oatmeal Smell Stood Stranger
You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
ADAM RAPP

Always Count Country Cutting Leg Time
I’ve never really felt that I’ve had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.
ADAM RAPP

Clothes Cut Cutting Felt Hair Really Right
I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn’t matter.
ADAM RAPP

Director Hat Matter Playwright Storyteller Wearing
I think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I’m sensitive to it.
ADAM RAPP

Anand Thakur
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?
ADAM RAPP

Country Dog Feel Girl Living Month Sure Year
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.
ADAM RAPP

Actor Concept Keeping Often Room Together Work
Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
ADAM RAPP

Deeper Heart Put Somewhere
I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren’t going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.
ADAM RAPP

Auditioning Hard Hate Job Really Reductive Thinking
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
ADAM RAPP

Anand Thakur
There’s only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky.
ADAM RAPP

Highway Maker North Pavement Quit Road Sky Turn
It’s strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can’t even answer it.
ADAM RAPP

Answer Asked People Process Schedule Strange
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.
ADAM RAPP

Beacon Candle Expire Grief Heart Lighthouse Rain System Temperature
You can’t run forever.
ADAM RAPP

Forever Run Running Sky

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