Adam Rapp Quotes

I like to write about teenagers because it's such an uncertain and dramatic time.

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• I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Read
  • Forgotten
  • Plato

• All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Risk
  • Feel
  • Audience

• I'm flying all around the world, and it's hard to be settled.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • World
  • Hard
  • Flying

• A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Enough
  • Guitar
  • Piano

• I've been doing African dance all my life.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • Life
  • Dance
  • My Life

• A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Chinese
  • Stronger
  • Lead

• So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • People
  • Different
  • Day

• They always say, 'Time heals.' But it really doesn't. You just get used to it. I live life with the mentality of 'OK, I lost the only thing that has ever been important to me.' So going forward, anything bad that happens can't be nearly as bad as what happened before.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• I'm not a god - I do bad things.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • God
  • Bad
  • Things

• In the Army, because the stakes are so high - right? - you can't just be a yes-man and say, 'Great idea, boss!' if you don't believe it - right? - because lives are at stake. And the commanders that I've worked for, they want frank assessments; they want criticism and feedback.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Great
  • Believe
  • High

• I had just 15 days to work on my body for the climactic fight of 'Bodyguard.' And I would work on every muscle of my body two/three times a week. I would have developed a superb body if I had three months, but squeezing it into 15 days can be harmful. Also, as you grow older, your metabolic rate slows down.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Work
  • Fight
  • Week

• If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • Life
  • Men
  • Nature

• No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Different
  • Important
  • Change

• I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.

  

  Vernon A. Walters
  • Wonder
  • Worry
  • Uncertainty

• I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.

  

  Harold Robbins
  • Leave
  • Any
  • Manuscripts

• I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Energy
  • Gift
  • Creator

• I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Think
  • Like
  • Half

• I'm always the interrogator. When I was an actor in rep, I always played sinister parts. The directors always said, 'If there's a nasty man about, cast Harold Pinter.'

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Man
  • Always
  • Said

• There's so much competition for leisure time, more than ever.

  

  Eric Fellner
  • Time
  • Competition

• Any standup that you see who you go, 'Oh, wow, that guy's, you know, that guy's making it.' Inevitably, they've been doing it 10, 12 years - 10, 15 years. Because it takes time.

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • Time
  • Guy

• I don't have secrets in my life. Everything is out there.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Secrets

• I love him (Josh Homme) too much, and you can't hurt someone that you love that much ... unless you're family.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Family
  • Hurt

• I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal.

  

  Jean Paul Gaultier
  • People

• I like to write about teenagers because it's such an uncertain and dramatic time.

  

  Adam Rapp
  • Time