I’ve lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.
ADAM RAPPI don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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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 find that more and more I’m trying to entertain myself when I’m working, because I know the work’s going to go to a horrible place.
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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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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 know that they want certain things and they’re in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that.
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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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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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There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies.
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You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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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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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
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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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Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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