For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.
ADAM RAPPI write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes,
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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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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When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I’m a much more practical person in the world,
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I know that something inevitable will happen.
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I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren’t going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.
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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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You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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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 work is always more emotional than I am.
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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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Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
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You don’t really develop feelings about a place till you’ve left it. It’s like a girl or a dog.
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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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It just happens quicker and faster now.
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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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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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I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.
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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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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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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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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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I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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If it weren’t for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family’s turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.
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It’s strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can’t even answer it.
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And you can’t go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.
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More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
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