Adam Rapp Quotes

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• You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.

  Adam Rapp

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• I don't mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart; 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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  Song, Heart, Talking

  Adam Rapp (2011). “33 Snowfish”, p.35, Candlewick Press

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• I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. 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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  Thinking, Compassion, Years

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• I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter.

  Adam Rapp

  Directors, Matter, Hats

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen. I know that they want certain things and they're in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that. More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens. I don't know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady's, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts. If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I'd have someone enter with a machine gun.

  Adam Rapp

  Character, Writing, Gun

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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.

  Adam Rapp

  Drinking, Years, Milk

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever. The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit. And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet; we're so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.

  Adam Rapp

  Simple, People, Forever

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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, I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused. 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

  Writing, World, Different

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• We only have so much time.... Time will kill you – it really will.

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• Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

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  Years, Fifteen, My Sister

  Adam Rapp (2002). “Nocturne: A Play”, p.7, Macmillan

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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.

  Adam Rapp

  School, Community, Support

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• I don't like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.

  Adam Rapp

  Directors, Rooms, Type

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive and I'm very fast. 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. I won't eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him. When I write, that takes over and I can't do anything else. There's something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up. I've lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.

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  Dog, Fall, Writing

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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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  Important, Trying, Weight

  Adam Rapp (2006). “The Year of Endless Sorrows: A Novel”, p.390, Macmillan

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• I've been living in Portland for five months and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I probably won't really know for years because that's how it works right? 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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  Girl, Dog, Years

  Adam Rapp (2010). “Punkzilla”, p.2, Candlewick Press

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• Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.

  Adam Rapp

  Ideas, Sometimes, Stage Managers

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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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. 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.

  Adam Rapp

  Writing, Play, People

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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. The scent goes right to your stomach. Mary's house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace. 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 Rapp

  Smell, Oatmeal, House

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• I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.

  Adam Rapp

  Thinking, East, Village

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• The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.

  Adam Rapp

  Winning, Ideas, Rooms

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

  Adam Rapp

  Girlfriend, Character, Emotional

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• When I kicked in the first TV – a nineteen-inch Magnavox with wicker speaker panels – it felt like the most perfect thing I had done in a long time. And there's nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.

  Adam Rapp

  Perfection, Long, Inspire

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• You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.

  Adam Rapp

  New York, Cutting, Legs

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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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  Dream, Scary, Suffering

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• 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 Rapp

  Trying, Horrible, Knows

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