We’re so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
ADAM RAPPThe heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
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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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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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I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
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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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You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There’s nothing stranger than the smell of someone else’s house
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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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I’ve never really felt that I’ve had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.
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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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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 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.
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My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
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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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When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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