Ralph Richardson Quotes
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The most precious things in speech are pauses.
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The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
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Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
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Acting is the ability to dream on cue.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.
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Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.
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We can't promote clam farming if they can't expand -- if there is no place for it to go.
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If these railroad crossings were fixed right with metal devices that come down and block traffic, people couldn't pull up and get killed.
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Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run.
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And of that dozen, 115 Savannah Road is by far the most imposing, with its size, mansard roof, three stories of height and a unique tower.
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The most precious things in speech are the pauses.
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I like talking to engineers best. They built bridges, they're very precise, very disciplined, yet I find they have roving minds.
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I think we can use (the study) to make sure we're in balance.
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Dead? No excuse for laying off work.
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This work is an excellent example of how K-State scientists work across disciplines to build effective teams, ... Had it not been for these faculty members reaching out to each other to share their individual observations relative to research and teaching, this exciting discovery might well have gone unnoticed.
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Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.
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But I would present it as a citizens petition, not ours.