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
ADAM RAPPFifteen years ago I killed my sister.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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I think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
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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 just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
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I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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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.
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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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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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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 think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
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I’ve lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.
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Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
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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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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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