Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York. — John Guare Copy Share Image
People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what… — John Guare Copy Share Image
People rewrite the play so much to make it palatable to the audience, to make something clear, that they just deaden it.… — John Guare Copy Share Image
I only do business with the people I do business with. The people I do business with find out I do business… — John Guare Copy Share Image
Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we… — John Guare Copy Share Image
Everyone talks about America, this great country. You hear, "I'm more patriotic than you are. No, I'm more patriotic!" But how few… — John Guare Copy Share Image
What I hate about kitchen-sink dramas is [this idea] that the set is real, therefore you're going to be seeing truth. You… — John Guare Copy Share Image
You must keep people happy backstage because that affects what's onstage. During a run, the playwright feels like the mayor of a… — John Guare Copy Share Image
I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and… — John Guare Copy Share Image
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. — John Guare Copy Share
The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human… — John Guare Copy Share
The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that wakes you… — John Guare Copy Share
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 Copy Share
To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got my first… — John Guare Copy Share
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… — John Guare Copy Share
I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner. — John Guare Copy Share
There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. — John Guare Copy Share
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. — John Guare Copy Share
I like to ground plays in reality so they can jump higher. So we can account for the trampoline, so we can account for… — John Guare Copy Share
People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human… — John Guare Copy Share
And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to… — John Guare Copy Share
![“What I hate about kitchen-sink dramas is [this idea] that the set is real, therefore you're going to be seeing truth. You have to earn truth. Truth can't be a part of the fact that people appear to talk that way and live in that room. You're looking for the poetry in something, and I don't mean…” quote by John Guare](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/845/john-guare-10082_believe_what-i-hate-about-kitchen-sink-dramas-is_1436898.jpg)
