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Richard Foreman

"I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do."

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"I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do."

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Amber Hurdle

"Honestly, I am not trying to discourage anyone from becoming an actress, but if you want to become one be prepared to face everything that comes - along with it."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious."

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Amber Hurdle

"It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline."

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Amber Hurdle

"I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up using pipe tobacco. It burned slower, and it wasn't as harsh on my throat... It also smelled better."

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Amber Hurdle

"I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!"

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Amber Hurdle

"I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here."

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Amber Hurdle

"I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing."

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Amber Hurdle

"We're not trying to top ourselves with each record, obviously."

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Amber Hurdle

"Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way."

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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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"One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience."
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"There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life."
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"You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army."
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"My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization."
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"Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up."
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Richard Foreman
"If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit."
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"So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale."
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"It's true, I don't like the real world."
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"I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre."
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