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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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• Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system. Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity. Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs. The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.

  Adam Rapp

  Grief, Rain, Heart

  Adam Rapp (2002). “Nocturne: A Play”, p.79, Macmillan

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• I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest. Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart. Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can't find it with all their machines and microcameras.

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  Heart, Doctors, Eggs

  Adam Rapp (2012). “The Children and the Wolves”, p.9, Candlewick Press

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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.

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  Writing, World, Different

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Man, that's the only kind of book I like – one that's so real you want to find out everything there is to know about the person who wrote it, like how tall he is and what kind of music he likes and whether or not he really went through all the stuff he was writing about.

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  Real, Book, Writing

  Adam Rapp (2011). “Under the Wolf, Under the Dog”, p.117, Candlewick Press

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• You can't run forever. There's only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky. And you can't go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.

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  Running, Sky, Forever

  Adam Rapp (2011). “33 Snowfish”, p.45, Candlewick Press

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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.

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  Smell, Oatmeal, 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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  Directors, Rooms, Type

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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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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  Ideas, Sometimes, Stage Managers

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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

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  Winning, Ideas, Rooms

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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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, so I started to think like, "well if I'm going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct".

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  Fighting, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.

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  Actors, Designer

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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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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  Couple, Actors, Rooms

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I think I'm a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.

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  Thinking, Play, Littles

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I don't put big concepts on my work, and it's all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting them leave.

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  Together, Actors, Rooms

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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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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  Thinking, Authorship, Working It

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• What I've learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.

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  Years, Lasts, I've Learned

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I've never really felt that I've had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.

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  Cutting, Hair, Clothes

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I've never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater helps.

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  Party, Thinking, Helping

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• A typical day for me is I'm writing when I'm not directing.

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  Writing, Typical

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I'm sensitive to it.

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  Brother, Thinking, Actors

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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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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  Jobs, Hate, Thinking

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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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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  Coffee, Down And, Way

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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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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  Lying, Actors, Process

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.

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  Ideas, Directors, Stealing

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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