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The power of the past to still dominate our thinking today.

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
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You can't be a sort of pioneer.
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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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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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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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Like a dog, a playwright lives in an eternal present and a play is never closed.
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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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There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play.
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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 think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create what they need.
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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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And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.
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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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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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However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.
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The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.
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