You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
ADAM RAPPFifteen years ago I killed my sister.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
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I think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I’m sensitive to it.
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I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can’t not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops.
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If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I’d have someone enter with a machine gun.
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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?
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Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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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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Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
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When I’m directing, I’m pretty much not writing, but when I’m not directing I am writing a lot.
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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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I don’t mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart
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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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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.
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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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