Richard Foreman Quotations

We strongly urged those involved to release the arrested government officials.

Until South Korea ends its political transition, it might be perceived to be a little unseemly for us (America) to move forward.

We've always respected Israel's right to defend itself, including going after armed groups and armed men in some of these areas. But we've always said they need to do that in a manner which has the utmost care to avoid harm to civilians, particularly when they're conducting operations in heavily populated areas. And we've said that often results in tragedies and numerous deaths. And that appears to be what's happened again.

When we see Israel suffering these horrible bombings, when we see this kind of violence threatening once again to make progress more difficult, we're keeping in touch with the other players.

There are people who love beef but they're concerned about it (fitting into a healthy diet). We're not out to convert the world but to learn more from a cooking perspective.

Let's destroy this young demagogue before he becomes another Ralph Nader. (about John Kerry)

Senator Smith would do well to act as we did and read the decision before commenting on it. As with other 'statutory construction' rulings, this decision leaves Congress itself free to decide what its laws mean.

So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale.

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.

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.

If anything, the talent from Burbank might have to move up to Emeryville. The animation center of the universe is moving to Emeryville.

For the time being I would characterize this as a savage, bear market rally.

I think that should set up a very positive picture for the December quarter, subject to execution.

Like PACE, we at Learning Care Group are committed to creating educational environments that inspire a lifelong love of learning. High quality early educational experiences can have a lasting positive impact on students, and it is up to everyone in the early education field to see we make the most of the important role that we play.

It all boils down to how much money you're going to spend.

We really won't see the story until we get into the spring and see the spring sales activity.

Usually the Fed keeps raising rates until something goes wrong in the economy or the market. Even Alan Greenspan has never gotten it right.

We have a tug-of-war going on between earnings, which are reasonably good, versus the Fed, where people are trying to figure out are they still going to tighten or not.

We are actively considering all these legal issues and trying to work with the other governments involved to make sure that their concerns are satisfied,

The fact that everything is back on the drawing board, with respect to partitioning the printer business, makes the stock more attractive.

the experts as a whole said the whole picture is that Iraq put chemical weapons in these warheads.

We would expect a retraction from the Libyan government,

We believe it's a very important and necessary step toward resolving the crisis in Macedonia.

We will initiate at the beginning of next year one of the most serious debates about civil rights and individual liberties in our history.

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.

We're talking about giving the doctor a new power, to actively cause death. It's a right to kill.

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.

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'.

Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again.

Barbie has a special relationship with women. It takes them back to being a little girl and fantasizing about what they're going to be in the future.

This is the first music product that people consider to be an emotional statement.

This issue is only a skirmish in preparation for a huge battle -- over whether North Korea is willing to give up its nuclear weapons.

There's been a lot of speculation, one way or the other, on the peace process

It was impressively well done, ... They had this huge operations room, video links and they had clips of news broadcasts by actual broadcasters.

For book purposes you spread it over many years, but for tax purposes, you can get it in the first year. So you can get a big tax benefit and it boosts earnings.

It's virtually impossible for us to predict what a jury would have done with this case had it gone to trial.

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.

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.

In that sense, they were able to deliver more positive news, even though sales into the channel were up only 17 percent while sales out of the channel were up 36 percent. Those numbers should be equal. But with inventory at three weeks, they ought to be able to drive sales more aggressively in the channel.

The electorate have a judgment to make, and they will now make it on Maire. My own priority is never to give up.

The County salutes the tremendous contributions of groups such as the American Red Cross and also the potential assistance of community and faith-based organizations, and looks forward to partnering with them as we seek to come along side those in need,

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.

There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

Everything Brecht wrote—plays, dialogues, and poetry—was his attempt to clarify the inner contradictions not only of the capitalism and fascism of his times, but also of the communism that was always disappointing his deepest hopes. In a book that makes Brecht’s struggle to reveal these hidden contradictions its central theme, Glahn issues, by implication, a call to arms to today’s artists—who are faced with a world that seems to defy attempts to treat the global crisis with an art that is rarely more than notes on ‘local’ angst.

I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the ‘instantly available’.

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.

What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play.

As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.

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.

Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

It's true, I don't like the real world.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

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.

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

You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army.

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.

If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.

I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky.

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.

Understand--it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves.

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.'