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John Guare
American
Playwright
Born:
Feb 5
,
1938
Ballet
City
Does
Life
People
York
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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.
John Guare
Beautiful
You
People
Value
Wow
See
Spirit
Cost
Beautiful Paintings
Practical
How
How Much
Go
Human
Much
Paintings
Shows
Human Spirit
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.
John Guare
Music
Listening
Respond
Possibilities
City
Spirit
About
Remarkable
New
Always
How
Ballet
York
Human
New York
New York City
New York City Ballet
Human Body
Realm
Body
Human Spirit
Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.
John Guare
Comedy
Humiliation
Tragedy
Avoiding
Core
I ushered at the Shubert in New Haven during graduate school when plays en route to Broadway still went out of town to try out. I worked backstage at summer stock doing jobs from garbage man to strapping on Herbert Marshall's wooden leg to fixing Gloria Swanson's broken plumbing in her dressing room with her yelling at me as I worked the plunger.
John Guare
Me
Broken
Man
School
Try
Garbage
Summer
Broadway
Backstage
Out
Jobs
Plumbing
Marshall
Dressing
Dressing Room
Haven
New
Town
Still
Doing
Yelling
Stock
Leg
Fixing
Graduate
Graduate School
Wooden
Room
Worked
Route
Her
Herbert
Plays
All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.
John Guare
Beautiful
Home
City
Runs
Beautiful Home
New
Does
Ballet
Hit
York
New York
New York City
New York City Ballet
Home Runs
And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.
John Guare
Great
Stage
Broadway
Broadway Show
Would
Would-Be
City
New
Ballet
York
New York
New York City
New York City Ballet
Show
Now
Numbers
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.
John Guare
World
Money
Financial
Whatever
City
Through
New
Passes
York
Goes
New York
New York City
Where
Mean
Capital
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.
John Guare
Year
Every
Think
Otherwise
Alive
Worthy
City
Take
New
Terrible
Terrible Thing
Because
Ballet
Celebration
York
Just
New York
New York City
New York City Ballet
Granted
Thing
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.
John Guare
Music
Together
Space
Extraordinary
Way
Those
Given
Emotional
Come
Look
Force
Makes
Ballet
Geometry
Wonder
Controlled
Listen
Us
Bodies
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.
John Guare
Life
Dancer
Alive
City
About
Remarkable
New
Because
Makes
Ballet
Tragically
Forget
York
Short
New York
New York City
New York City Ballet
Us
Keeps
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
John Guare
History
World
Word
Become
Live
State
Bad
Most
Did
Where
Amnesia
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.
John Guare
Heart
Eyes
Possibilities
Hopefully
Variations
Head
Arms
Dealt
Human
Legs
Human Body
Body
Extensions
Two
To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got my first theater job checking coats at the National, which was Washington's main theater.
John Guare
Love
You
Job
College
First
National
Stay
Main
Checking
Around
Got
Any
Love You
Place
Which
Theater
Fifties
Coats
Washington
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