Kenneth Tynan Quotes
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What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.
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Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos.
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The unique thing about Margaret Rutherford is that she can act with her chin alone. Among its many moods I especially cherish the chin commanding, the chin in doubt, and the chin at bay.
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A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.
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We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.
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Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.
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In most writers, style is a welcome, an invitation, a letting down of the drawbridge between the artist and the world. Shaw had no time for such ruses. Unlike most of his countrymen, he abominated charm, which he regarded as evidence of chronic temperamental weakness.
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Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.
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Does the critic wish to influence the kind of film that costs more than £250,000? It is as if he were to send a postcard to General Motors explaining that he would like them to make a raft next year, or a helicopter, instead of a car.
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She shows herself to the audience like the Host to the congregation.
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When you've seen all of Ionesco's plays, I felt at the end, you've seen one of them.