John Guare Quotes

• Everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation. Between us and everybody else on this planet.

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• I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.

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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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• We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

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• The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it’s about listening, it’s about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.

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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 ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force.

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• Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.

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• People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.

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• I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.

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• I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

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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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• However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

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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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• 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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• Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

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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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• And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life – it lives in the constant present.

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• All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.

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John Guare (19)

Birth:	5th February, 1938
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Playwright, Screenwriter

About

John Guare was born in New York City, New York, USA. He is an American playwright and screenwriter. His style, which mixes comic invention with an acute sense of the failure of human relations and aspirations, is at once cruel and deeply compassionate. He earned a BA degree from Georgetown University in 1960. He earned an MFA degree in Playwriting from Yale School of Drama in 1963. He has written several plays include: The House of Blue Leaves (won- Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play and Obie Award for Best American Play), Rich and Famous, Landscape of the Body, Marco Polo Sings a Solo, Bosoms and Neglect, Six Degrees of Separation (Nominated- Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play), Chaucer in Rome, and A Free Man of Color. He has written several films include: Taking Off, Atlantic City, The House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation, and Marvin's Room.

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