Tyrone Guthrie quotes
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“Directing is to fill anyone with a yearning to get back at ten o'clock next morning.”
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“Women to whom one has just been introduced think that it breaks the ice if they scream, 'Goodness, you're tall!' How would they like it if I broke the ice first, by screaming 'Goodness, what thick ankles!' or 'Goodness, what a bust!”
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“That your own interpretation of a work of art is flagrantly subjective seems to be regarded as an arrogant attitude. But the truer view is that the interpretative artist can only make his own comment upon the work.”
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“Astonish me in the morning!”
-- Tyrone GuthrieSource : Tyrone Guthrie (2008). “A New Theatre”, p.7, U of Minnesota Press
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“Work can only be universal if it is rooted in a part of its creator which is most privately and particularly himself.”
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“Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.”
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Source : A.S.A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife”, p.242, Hachette UK
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“The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.”
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