My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
ADAM RAPPI dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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We’re so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
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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
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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 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 suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.
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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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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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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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Mary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
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You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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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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Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
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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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I won’t eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him.
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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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