Adam Rapp Quotes

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.

Adam Rapp

Recitation: by Male by Female

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GreatTogetherPeopleWritingYou

In our quest to tweet, like, and trend, we have forgotten that brands can be built through advertising. Ads can generate big ideas that can never be trumped by tactics. That is the magic of an ad, and that is what is missing from many ads today.

Jerry Della Femina

TodayIdeasAdvertisingMagicNever

Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!

John Belushi

HellNothingOverDecideHarbor

I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

CompetitionChoiceStudentStudy

I get a much more extreme reaction when I have my hair really short. I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter. It's a much more extreme reaction.

Robert Smith

WalkPeopleHairThinkShortBoots

A short story is one idea; a novel is a whole soup of them.

Robert J. Sawyer

SoupStoryShortWholeIdeaNovel

I had more energy at 25 and did more jiving around. People got to understand that when you're not so interested in something, you're not gonna do it to the best of your ability. I used to get excited working the crowd, but no more.

Roy Jones Jr.

BestPeopleEnergyYouUnderstand

My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.

Diane Ackerman

MotherHairBlackSaidAlwaysMust

I write in the morning - and then I'm always experimenting and tasting recipes for the books.

Diane Mott Davidson

MorningWriteAlwaysRecipesBooks

I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.

Diane Paulus

BeautifulSisterGoldLivingSitting

I'm not really attracted to that long-term commitment to one character over many years.

Diane Lane

CharacterCommitmentOverYearsMany

Success can be obviously a two way street.

Chris Noth

SuccessStreetWayTwoObviously

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort - I think it keeps you going.

Anthony Hopkins

LifeGoodStressEffortThinkYou

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