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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.
John Guare
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John Guare
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 5
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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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Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.
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You don't push the button that says Now I will write something that resonates in time. You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.
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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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Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.
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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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1975 is as much a historical document as 1803.
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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.
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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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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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Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.
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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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However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.
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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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There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play.
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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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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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