John Guare Quotes
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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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.
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What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.
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The world is such a big place, and there's so much that goes on, but a lot of the media really just cover the same thing over and over again.
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
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It's very lucky to be able to do a job where I get to sit about writing plays all day and going to the theatre. The downside, I suppose, is that you put it out there, and people are invited to like it or loathe it.
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People seem to think that my movies are so carefully coordinated and arranged - and in a lot of ways, they are - but every single time I make a movie, I feel that every director makes these choices. You make choices about your script, you make choices about your actors, and how you're going to stage it, and how you're going to shoot it, and what the costumes are going to be like, and in every single detail, you make that decision. And for me, what ends up happening is, I wind up surprised at the combination of all these ingredients. It never is anything like what I expected.
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But I'm still not 100% convinced that Roger Clemens took steroids. I'm not.
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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.
