Garry Hynes famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The odd thing about Cripple of Inishmaan is its never actually been performed on the island.
-- Garry Hynes

#Islands #Odd Things #Odd
I think I'm attracted to writers who tell us something about ourselves.
-- Garry Hynes

#Thinking
I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.
-- Garry Hynes

#New York #Ideas #Ordinary
I was the first woman to win a Tony for directing, but the second woman came along five minutes later.
-- Garry Hynes

#Winning #Firsts #Minutes

I love travelling, and had the pleasure of being in the most developed country in the world and then parts of two of the most pristine natural areas of the world: the Galapagos islands and the Equador Amazon jungle. The contrast was incredible.
It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite extraordinary - make up that history.
In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement,
When, during the Second World War, the island of Malta came through three terrible years of bombardment and destruction, it was rightly awarded the George Medal for bravery: today Israel should be awarded a similar decoration for defending democracy, tolerance and Western values against a murderous onslaught that has lasted twenty times as long.
The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely, there were little jokes and speech bubbles and odd things going on in the background.
It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
I added to my mental list of the odd things I'd done that day. I'd entertained the police, sunbathed, visited at a mall with some fairies, weeded and killed someone. Now it was powdered-corpse removal time. And the day wasn't over yet.
It was an odd thing to do, to stand in a street in the hope of seeing someone who hardly knew him, but he did not want to move.
Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.
Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it

Garry Hynes famous quotes

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