Adam Rapp Quotes

I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter. And the rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic, and the best idea wins.

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• Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Up
  • World
  • India

• I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Feelings
  • Emotional
  • See

• It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Time
  • Common
  • Common Sense

• When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Writing
  • Deal
  • Islam

• I fantasized being a broadcaster.

  

  Larry King
  • Being
  • Broadcaster

• All I wanted to do was be a working actor.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Actor
  • Working
  • Wanted

• You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.

  

  Utkarsh Ambudkar
  • Work
  • Music
  • God

• I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Truth
  • Song
  • Gift

• We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Human
  • Understand
  • See

• Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Picture
  • New
  • News

• Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Earth
  • Justice
  • Violence

• Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Me
  • Air
  • Boy

• The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
  • Reality
  • Failure
  • Software

• I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Kids
  • Know
  • Old

• The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • First
  • Learned
  • Theme

• All men ought to think of Christ, because of what Christ will yet do to all men. He shall come again one day to this earth with power and glory, and raise the dead from their graves. All shall come forth at His bidding. Those who would not move when they heard the church-going bell, shall obey the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Men
  • Power

• Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Practice

• The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.

  

  Leslie Fiedler
  • Reading

• Sans doute vos chrétiens, qu'on persécute en vain,Ont quelque chose en eux qui surpasse l'humain:Ils mènent une vie avec tant d'innocence,Que le ciel leur en doit quelque reconnaissance;Se relever plus forts, plus ils sont abattus,N'est pas aussi l'effet des communes vertus.

  

  Pierre Corneille

• Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

  

  Albert J. Nock
  • Knowledge
  • Opinion

• I have sadness in me. I have anger in me. I have heartbreak in me.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • Heartbreak

• I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter. And the rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic, and the best idea wins.

  

  Adam Rapp
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