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Coughing Quotes

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

Alan Jay Lerner
Criticism, Theatre, Coughing

I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing.

Artur Schnabel
Two, Kind, Coughing
'My Life and Music' (1961) pt. 2, ch. 10

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
Choke, Coughing, Response

Acting is the ability to keep an audience from coughing.

Jean-Louis Barrault
Art, Acting, Coughing

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
Faces, Coughing, Streams

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
Clinton, Coughing, Incidents
Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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
Smoking, Towns, Coughing

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
Soul, Coughing, Damn

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
Emotional, Long, Coughing
Source: www.nbcnews.com

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