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John Guare
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 5
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I'm sure there are some good dramaturgs but I've never worked with one.
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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?
John Guare
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All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.
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I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.
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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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And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.
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Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.
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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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You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am.
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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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I wanted to be a Bride of Christ but I guess now I'm a young divorcee.
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Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.
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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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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 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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You can't be a sort of pioneer.
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The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.
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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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Oh, I never use a seat belt. I don't believe in gravity.
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Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.
John Guare