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The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.
John Guare
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John Guare
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 5
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There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play.
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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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Every play is so important. It's a record of what life was like at the time you wrote that play or that book.
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You can't kind of take away, you either do or you don't. If you kind of take away something you're a failure.
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People rewrite the play so much to make it palatable to the audience, to make something clear, that they just deaden it. Like it was left it in the oven too long.
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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 random”.
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However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.
John Guare
I'm sure there are some good dramaturgs but I've never worked with one.
John Guare
You can't be a sort of pioneer.
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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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Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.
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The great risk is always saying, how will I communicate what I'm trying to get across to a room full of strangers sitting in the dark watching a stage?
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All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.
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You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy.
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Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.
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Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. It seems like spelling out mysterious, musical details can destroy a play by making the motivations too clear, too simplex.
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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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James Joyce wrote the definitive work about Dublin while he was living in Switzerland. We're all where we come from. We all have our roots.
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The power of the past to still dominate our thinking today.
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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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