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

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Adam Rapp
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: June 15
Film Director
Novelist
Joliet
Illinois
Kill
Much
Really
Time

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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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I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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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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You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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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 feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter.
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I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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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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You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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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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I think I'm a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
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There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies. 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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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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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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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'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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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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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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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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I've never really felt that I've had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.
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