John Guare Quotes

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• We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
• 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's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.
• 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…
• I wanted to be a Bride of Christ but I guess now I'm a young divorcee.
• How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random”.
• 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…
• All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.
• And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.
• Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.
• 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…
• However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.
• 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…
• Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.
• I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.
• 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…
• Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…

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