John Guare famous quotes
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It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.
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Feydeau's one rule of playwriting: Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B. Knock Knock. Enter Character B.
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I only do business with the people I do business with. The people I do business with find out I do business with the people I don't do business with.... I can't do business with you.
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Oh, I never use a seat belt. I don't believe in gravity.
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The only riots were the people trying to get tickets.
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I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.
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How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all randomâ€.
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People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.
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The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.
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What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do
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What I hate about kitchen-sink dramas is [this idea] that the set is real, therefore you're going to be seeing truth. You have to earn truth. Truth can't be a part of the fact that people appear to talk that way and live in that room. You're looking for the poetry in something, and I don't mean poetry in the fancy sense. Naturalism believes by just replicating a thing you give the truth, rather than earning the truth.
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The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.
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I am the same artist with the same nagging questions I had in my early 20's. What's real and what isn't? How do we tell what's real in our lives? How do we see things as they are? What is my role in life? If the Signature hadn't forced the issue by devoting its season to my plays, I could at least believe I had changed. Really, they're all the same! What is SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION but THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES with money?
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And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.
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We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
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The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that wakes you up and says this is what I'm afraid of. Do not listen to me at your peril.... The imagination is not our escape. On the contrary, the imagination is the place we are all trying to get to.
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Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.
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I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.
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Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.
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All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.
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And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.
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Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.
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Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.
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However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.
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I wanted to be a Bride of Christ but I guess now I'm a young divorcee.
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Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.
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I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.
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I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes.
-- John Guare
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