Adam Rapp Quotes

When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing a lot. It's strange: people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can't even answer it. I don't keep regular hours.

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• For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about slippery places, slippery people and slippery things, you know, I need to - I needed to take my cell phone and eliminate all the phone numbers, change the phone numbers so no one I knew before could call me or reach me.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
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• Physically, it is very demanding as an actor, and I don't want to put a lot of focus on that, but I think it is emotionally and mentally a lot more... It can completely twist you... We abandon ourselves for days and months, and by the end of it, we are twisted people which you make fun of.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
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• Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.

  

  Mae Jemison
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• My inspiration is endless; I can't define it. It is a constant flow and evolution. In general, I'm taking it from everywhere. People get nervous when they walk with me, as I'll see something and suddenly have to text it to myself.

  

  Raf Simons
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• People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
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  • Heart
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• I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

  

  A. N. Wilson
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  • Life
  • Done

• People are totally overusing LOL and a wink - and I'm very guilty of using the wink - that's probably my favourite emoticon to use because 'I'm being sarcastic, don't misinterpret; don't misconstrue; I'm just kidding.' Again, for as many benefits as it has, also picking up the phone and having a conversation speaks volumes.

  

  Carly Pope
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  • Up
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• Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.

  

  Hailey Gates
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• You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.

  

  Zoe Kazan
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• I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
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• In the education of the American people, I am Recess.

  

  Garry Marshall
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• I have been talking to a lot of people who don't normally vote Democratic - independents and Republicans. They have been voting for Democrats because they think it's important to change the direction America is going.

  

  Ted Deutch
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• People are clamoring to hear good ideas as opposed to the lesser of two evils... Either the Democrats are going to win or the Republicans are going to win, but the losers are all of us out here as citizens that really do want meaningful change, and none of it's happening. There's no dialogue regarding meaningful change.

  

  Gary Johnson
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• The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.

  

  Fanny Kemble
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• People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

  

  Tadao Ando
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  • Beauty
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• There are no 'political prisoners' as such in Bahrain. People are not arrested because they express their views, we only have criminals.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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• I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you're getting a finished product at the end of the day. You're communicating directly with the reader.

  

  Gary Ross
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• People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Design
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• If you're having fun being yourself and filming something that you would watch yourself, it becomes contagious for other people to watch, too.

  

  Zoe Sugg
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• There's a lot of people I'd love to work with at some point, but I think the song has to be the right thing. It has to be the right fit.

  

  Jason Aldean
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• As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
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• Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop.

  

  Andrew Rannells

• All you 'Twilight' fans, can't thank you really enough for being so supportive. You're real cool people.

  

  Rami Malek
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• When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing a lot. It's strange: people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can't even answer it. I don't keep regular hours.

  

  Adam Rapp
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  • Writing
  • Pretty