Richard Foreman
Richard Foreman
Richard Foremanis an American playwright and avant-garde theater pioneer. He is the founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater...
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth10 June 1937
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She knows it's a show about the business world and she jokes that no one's ever gonna hire her now. But she's actually pretty tough.
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It was impressively well done, ... They had this huge operations room, video links and they had clips of news broadcasts by actual broadcasters.
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I'm opposed to any kind of condo development in the harbor. I think if we go with something this soon of that magnitude, then we're really shortchanging ourselves the opportunity to guide our own growth. It's so out of the realm of what we really need. We want progress but this is our chance to guide it, not let it guide us.
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At this time of year, with tractors, combine harvesters, grain driers all in use, the farmer relies heavily on fuel. And with prices for grain still very, very depressed, it's not looking good.
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From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York. Absolutely everything.
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It would be nice to get to the point where I don't have to think about it any more. People slip up all the time and refer to me as 'she'. I've even done it once in a bar when a friend introduced me to someone and I said, 'Hi, I'm Vanda. Oh no I'm not. I'm Richard'.
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All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought it'd be interesting if the actor's repeated what they heard on the tape, but at a slower speed, so we'd get a web of language.
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The president of the United States coming there in a world where he's seemingly obsessed with terrorism, clearly obsessed with it, and talking about HIV/AIDS in the same breath, in the same paragraph, extremely important.
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We're talking about giving the doctor a new power, to actively cause death. It's a right to kill.
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Usually the Fed keeps raising rates until something goes wrong in the economy or the market. Even Alan Greenspan has never gotten it right.
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What Paul has brought to this club is a culture. The value of that and the power of that is immeasurable and it will sustain us for many years to come.
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We really won't see the story until we get into the spring and see the spring sales activity.
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I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of the highly educated and articulate personality--a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the West. [But now] I see within us all (myself included) there placement of complex inner density with a new kind of self--evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the 'instantly available.'
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Understand--it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves.