"My play is the ultimate expression of my……" — Richard Foreman
"My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization."
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24 Quotes by Richard Foreman
Richard Foreman has 24 quotes on this site.
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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.
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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'…
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Everything Brecht wrote—plays, dialogues, and poetry—was his attempt to clarify the inner contradictions not only of the capitalism and fascism…
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I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under…
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Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they…
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What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play.
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As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors…
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I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I…
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Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.
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It's true, I don't like the real world.
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One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.
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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…
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More Civilization Quotes
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.…
— Julian Assange
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Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the…
— Margaret Atwood
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The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push…
— Irving Babbitt
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Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
— Richard Bach
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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that…
— Edward Abbey
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.…
— L. Frank Baum
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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
— Jane Addams
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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
— Georges Bernanos
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
— Ambrose Bierce
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by…
— Ambrose Bierce
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