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 RAPPYou can’t run forever.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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I don’t know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady’s, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts.
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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
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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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If it weren’t for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family’s turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.
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The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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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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It just happens quicker and faster now.
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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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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
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I’ve lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.
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Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
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A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
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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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