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Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism. -- Alan Jay Lerner
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing. -- Benjamin Franklin
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing. -- Ralph Richardson
All on-set kisses are weird, no matter who it is, especially with people standing around coughing and sneezing. It's very uncomfortable! -- Bella Heathcote
My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night. -- John Philpot Curran
The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in my throat and I started coughing, and I couldn't get the words out. It lasted for like thirty seconds, but I got over it, and luckily the crowd didn't seem to care. -- Chris Brown
Well, we played with Soul Coughing once for like two days, that was pretty cool. I mean they were all good, you can pull a great experience from everything. -- Mike Lowry
Acting is the ability to keep an audience from coughing. -- Jean-Louis Barrault
Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing. -- Ralph Richardson
I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing. -- Artur Schnabel
It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding. -- Markus Zusak
One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers? -- Orson Scott Card
Kurt Vonnegut speaking to John Irving while Irving was administering the Heimlich maneuver in response to Vonnegut's uncontrollable coughing..."John,stop- I am not choking. I have emphysema. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Ancient stars in their death throes spat out atoms like iron which this universe had never known. ... Now the iron of old nova coughings vivifies the redness of our blood. -- Howard Bloom
I asked a coughing friend of mine why he doesn't stop smoking. 'In this town it wouldn't do any good,' he explained. 'I happen to be a chain breather.' -- Robert Sylvester
What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan. -- Hakuin Ekaku
At the last minute, I couldn't wear the Hitler mustache because Tiger Stripe ate it; and then I didn't want to take my kitty and risk his coughing up some big Nazi hairball on someone's front stoop. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Take [the first female] president away from Hillary [Clinton], what's her story? What is fascinating? What's interesting about Hillary? Coughing fits? The lump in her throat that she has to cover with the Mao jacket? What's her story? -- Rush Limbaugh
I really like playing with Mike Doughty from Soul Coughing. He was cool. He opened up some shows for us. I liked playing with G. Love, he's amazing. God Damn, it was like the best live I had ever seen. -- Mason Jennings
Winter's here, and you feel lousy: You're coughing and sneezing; your muscles ache; your nose is an active mucus volcano. These symptoms -- so familiar at this time of year -- can mean only one thing: Tiny fanged snails are eating your brain. -- Dave Barry
I think coughing up slugs was quite hard. Ron has a scene where he has to cough up these giant slugs. I had this giant slug in my mouth loaded with slime and I spat them out. I think it was plastic. I hope it was plastic. -- Rupert Grint
He found that he had this sudden desperate longing for the fuming, smoky streets of Ankh-Morpork, which was always at its best in the spring, when the gummy sheen on the turbid waters of the Ankh River had a special iridescence and the eaves were full of birdsong, or at least birds coughing rhythmically -- Terry Pratchett
One of my sisters wanted to be an opera singer. So, we spent a few dollars to try to train her, because Italian people would like to have an opera singer in the family. But she's got trouble coughing, let alone singing. One day, she was in the shower singing 'Madame Butterfly,' three days later the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor. -- Pat Cooper
I wish that person outside would stop coughing. -- Lee Konitz
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing. -- Benjamin Franklin
I know two kinds of audiences only - one coughing, and one not coughing. -- Artur Schnabel
I think coughing up slugs was quite hard. Ron has a scene where he has to cough up these giant slugs. -- Rupert Grint
I once choked on a chip at a friend's birthday when I was seven and had to be sent home, as I'd broken my collarbone coughing. -- Stella Young
Whooping cough is not a mild disease. Whooping cough, before the vaccination, could make you very, very sick. First of all, there was a chance you could die from it - small chance, not a big chance. You would be coughing and coughing. It wouldn't last for a few days, like a cold. -- Anthony Fauci
Americans! They want to go 600 miles an hour, and they don't know how to walk! Look at them in the street. Bent over. Coughing! Young men with gray faces! Why can't they look at the animals? Look at a cat. Look at any animal. The only animal that doesn't hold its stomach in is the pig. -- Joseph Pilates
People want to hear clean sounds; they don't want to hear coughing in the background, pages turning. -- Petra Haden
There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action. -- P. G. Wodehouse
All I do is see all these incidents of [Hillary Clinton's] coughing all the time. I don't know what it is. -- Rudy Giuliani
When I wake up in the middle of the night when I hear one of my kids coughing or crying, I think about Syria. -- Samantha Power
It's not bad to cough. But cover your mouth when coughing. It's not bad to complain. But cover your mouth when complaining, else you'll spread infections of complains on us! -- Israelmore Ayivor
I'm not angry. I can't sing that loud for that long anyway, I'll start coughing - I don't have the instrument for it. I don't feel that emotional. I'm at peace. -- Lizz Wright

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