John Guare Quotes
Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.
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It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
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There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master' of a cat? We own a dog - he is with us as a slave and inferior because we wish him to be. But we entertain a cat - he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger, and equal because he wishes to be there.
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The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.
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... there are tens of thousands of photographs taken here, all taken very patiently, because decay can be very slow.. Ten months for a human body... they say...
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Resolve in advance to persist until you succeed, no matter what the difficulty.
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The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.
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Being frightened is not the same as being a coward. Maybe he was as brave as anyone else there, because he went to catch a dragon despite knowing what dragons are like.
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I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.
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Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.
