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.
ADAM RAPPIt 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.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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Mary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
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I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can’t not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops.
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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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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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When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
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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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I don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
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My life has been in shambles, like my personal relationships, my laundry, paying bills now I have someone who pays my bills and it’s always been a challenge because it overwhelms me.
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Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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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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I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it’s a lie already at work.
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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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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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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 don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
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One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.
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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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You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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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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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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Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
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