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Richard Foreman

"I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school."

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"I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school."

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"Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits."
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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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"There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life."
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"I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that."
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