What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
ADAM RAPPI won’t eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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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’ve never really felt that I’ve had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.
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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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For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.
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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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I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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When it’s just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.
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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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I know that they want certain things and they’re in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that.
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I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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Whenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.
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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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I know that something inevitable will happen.
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I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.
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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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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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There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
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And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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You can’t run forever.
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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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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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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’ve written some criticism, and I really enjoy it because I think it’s important for people to know that theatre is vital.
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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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And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet
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The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
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