Adam Rapp Quotes

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

If things aren't going well, music is what I turn to so I can get away from it, to take my mind somewhere else.

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

Whether you're a mechanic or you build houses or you work in an office, you don't have to like your boss.

I think one reason people play golf is it allows them to obsess about something other than the daily crap. It takes your mind off that.

Ironing is a great diversion from the reality you don't want to face.

The only way I seem to be able to keep going while I'm writing is to munch my way through boxes of chocolates.

I love sports because it takes me away from reality, and I tell people, 'No matter how bad your life is, if you are having problems at home, you are having problems at work, that's the beauty of sports.'

Work is a great blotter up. It stops you thinking, which is useful. No, it stops you feeling.

Basketball was my thing I was always able to use to forget everything.

Anything that can keep me distracted and from my own brain, it's good.

Distractions can take us in an exciting direction but most often borrow our attention briefly without much resistance and take their sweet time giving it back. Distractions lure us in with an easy escape and then trick us by stealing our attention.

That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think .

Stupid how the mind will try to distract itself.

In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great escape. Books are a way to get your mind on something else.

let me forget about today until tomorrow

I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.

She sifted, sighed, and stared up at the ceiling, trying to think about anything but Lord Maccoon, her current predicament, or Lord Akeldama's safety. Which meant she could do nothing but reflect on the complex plight of her mama's more recent embroidery project. Thins, in itself, was a worse torture than any her captors could devise.

When she is alone in the rooms I hear her humming to keep herself from thinking.

I won't think of it now. I can't stand it now. I'll think of it later.

I find that through the sad times, work is what made my continuing, not breaking down, possible. In work, I was always someone else and I subconsciously reveled in that.

What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of the monotony that other people called the real world?

Work is the only device I know of.

Some friends of mine work in an office. They were getting really nervous from their coffee breaks, so they started to have wig breaks. They tried on wigs for 15 minutes. They found this relaxing. So that's Wig Therapy.

Sometimes when things are particularly bad, my brain will give me a happy dream.