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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.

— Kenneth Tynan Curtains (1961)

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We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.

Tynan Right and Left (1967)

What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.

Profiles (1990)

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

Tynan Right and Left (1967)

No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.

Everyone is vulnerable who is at once gifted and gregarious.

Tynan Right and Left (1967)

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