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You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
Adam Rapp
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Adam Rapp
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: June 15
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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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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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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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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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Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.
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What I've learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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