Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
ADAM RAPPI’ve never really felt that I’ve had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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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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The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
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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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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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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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Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
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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 grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I’ve lived here for sixteen years.
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I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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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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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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I write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes,
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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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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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