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Like a dog, a playwright lives in an eternal present and a play is never closed.
John Guare
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John Guare
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 5
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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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All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.
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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.
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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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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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We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Oh, I never use a seat belt. I don't believe in gravity.
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1975 is as much a historical document as 1803.
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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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There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play.
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And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.
John Guare
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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How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes I am all random”.
John Guare
