John Guare Quotes
I like to ground plays in reality so they can jump higher. So we can account for the trampoline, so we can account for the leap.
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Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions of abstract and speculative science rather than upon those involving everyday and ordinary human interests.
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At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
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In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.
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I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.
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I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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The decisive factor for the future of Europe - and before all things, for the 'restoration' of Europe - will be whether political thought and national feelings are influenced by the reality of internationalism.
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I continue to think many of the factors holding down inflation are transitory... We want to be careful not to jump to a premature conclusion about what's in store for the U.S. economy.
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What I really like about 'Grit' - especially being the guy who goes on TV every week and says 'Never Give Up' and who truly tries to live his life to that credo - we recruited 16 people who said, 'I will never give up.' And the only way they can leave the contest is by doing the one thing they said they never would.
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The word 'art' does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank.
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We may have different interests and we all may look different but ALL of us still bleed, have heart breaks and reasons to smile. Different is bad, it is what makes us special.
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I like to ground plays in reality so they can jump higher. So we can account for the trampoline, so we can account for the leap.
