What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives.
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Swami Vivekananda
That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.
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I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist.
Ray Conniff