Why do the actors wear roller-skates

 

(1) Interviewer: Why do the actors wear roller-skates?
    Designer: Well, they're all playing trains, you see.
    Interviewer: Trains?
    Designer: Yes, singing trains and they have to skate all round the audience at very high speeds. We've designed special lightweight costumes for them out of foam rubber, otherwise (pause) they'd be exhausted at the end of each performance.
(2) I found it took me rather a long time to get into the book. I mean, I kept wondering when we were going to begin with the plot, when we were going to get the actual story. Apart from that I must say that (pause) I enjoyed it very much.
(3) I found it very exciting and moving. I couldn't put it down and (pause) I stayed up very late to finish it.
(4) Well, I do agree with Jane that the book took a long time to start. In fact, for me, it's only honest to say that (pause) the book never really got started at all.
(5) I'm one of those impatient readers who want to get straight into a book from the beginning. Otherwise (pause) I tend to skip parts that don't really hold my interest.
(6) A: I'm afraid I did quite a lot of skipping with Alan Bailey's novel. And with over five hundred pages it was a bit of a disappointment really.
    B: Yes, I must admit that (pause) it was rather long.