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.
ADAM RAPPThe stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it.
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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 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 feel that I’d rather know an actors’ work, or have an instinct about them and sit down and have coffee with them, or I’ll see them in something and I’ll see if I can get along with them in some way, shape, or form.
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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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But when I’m writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I’m just impossible to get in touch with, and I don’t spend time with friends.
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It just happens quicker and faster now.
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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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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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The scent goes right to your stomach.
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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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And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet
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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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