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There was a kind of physical anarchy that dominated most of my younger life. I was always too skinny, not hairy enough, my voice jumped around. It was a thing that drove me away from towel lines in gym class.

~Adam Rapp

Topics: Always Anarchy Around Away Class Dominated Drove Enough Gym Hairy Kind Life Lines Me Most Physical Skinny Thing Too Towel Voice Younger

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When I came to New York, I was really awkward. I went to military academy for high school, so I didn't have the socialization that most kids do. When I got here, I was five years behind everybody. Talking to women was weird for me.

~Adam Rapp

Topics: Academy Awkward Behind Came Everybody Five Got Here High High School Kids Me Military Most New New York Really School Socialization Talking Weird Women Years York I Came

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I don't see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.

~Adam Rapp

Topics: East Lot Movies Portray See Think Village Well I Think

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I was a jock in college and high school, but I didn't hang out with the jocks. I was sort of a nerd who didn't look like a nerd. I never really fit into any social set.

~Adam Rapp

Topics: Any College Fit Hang High High School Jock Like Look Nerd Never Out Really School Set Social Sort Who

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I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with the darker or more serious stuff.

~Adam Rapp

Topics: Characters Darker Deal Entertain Entertained Feel Like Lot Me More Quality Serious Stuff Then Writing I Feel I Can I Feel Like

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I love plays that have musical moments. I'm not a big fan of musicals per se, but I love straight plays that have musical edges to them. I don't know if I will ever be able to structure a musical, but 'Finer Noble Gases' is as close as I've gotten.

~Adam Rapp

Topics: Able Big Big Fan Close Edges Ever Fan Finer Gases Gotten Know Love Moments Musical Musicals Noble Per Plays Straight Structure Them Will I Love

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I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive, and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can't not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops. I won't eat right. I forget to do my laundry.

~Adam Rapp

Topics: Drafts Eat Fast First Forget Laundry Long Long Period Period Pretty Right Tend Then Time Until Very Write I Write

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My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

~Adam Rapp

Topics: Able Accused Always Am Being Characters Each Emotional Get Girlfriend More Other Say Than Things Work I Am

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I was born in Chicago, then I spent most of my youth in Joliet, Illinois which is about thirty minutes south, and I went to a military academy for high school in Wisconsin. Then I went to college, on a basketball scholarship to a small school in Iowa, so I'm like Mr. Midwest.

~Adam Rapp

Topics: About Academy Basketball Born Chicago College High High School Illinois Iowa Like Midwest Military Minutes Most Scholarship School Small South Spent Then Thirty Which Wisconsin Youth Mr I Was Born

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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

Topics: Actor Am Best Democratic Designers Director Feel Hat Idea Just Love Matter Playwright Pretty Rooms Storyteller Tend Wearing Whether Wins Working Writers I Am I Love I Feel

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: June 15th, 1968

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