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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.

John Guare

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John Guare
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 5
Actor
Playwright
Screenwriter
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New York City
New York
Failure
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Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.
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The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.
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Everyone talks about America, this great country. You hear, I'm more patriotic than you are. No, I'm more patriotic! But how few people know the history of this country and how we came into being. That's the part that just amazed me.
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