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I write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes,

Adam Rapp

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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Escalate Excuse Hardest Keep Keeping Leave Part Tension
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.
ADAM RAPP

Bill Challenge Laundry Pay Paying Personal Relationship Shambles
A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
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Day Directing Typical Writing
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.
ADAM RAPP

Big Friend Impossible Irresponsible Mess Spend Time Touch Writing
If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I’d have someone enter with a machine gun.
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Enter Flash Gun Machine Someone Tried
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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Bearing Bone Important Rest Spend Trying Weight
I think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I’m sensitive to it.
ADAM RAPP

Anand Thakur
One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.
ADAM RAPP

Anand Thakur
You can’t run forever.
ADAM RAPP

Forever Run Running Sky
I know that they want certain things and they’re in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that.
ADAM RAPP

Certain Know Room Smell Think Want
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.
ADAM RAPP

Actor Along Coffee Down Instinct Shape Sit Way Work
The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
ADAM RAPP

Exit High Simple So Someone Stake
Whenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.
ADAM RAPP

Fun Funny Laughing Really Rehearsal
When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
ADAM RAPP

Anything Else Over Take Write
You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
ADAM RAPP

Always Count Country Cutting Leg Time
Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
ADAM RAPP

Deep Doctor Found Inside Machine Somewhere

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