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I've an idea for doing a Situation Comedy myself but its always difficult to get people to listen to you because they like to put their own ideas forward. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

#because #comedy #difficult #doing #forward

I've done seven shows at the Palladium - long running shows I'm talking about. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

#done #i #long #palladium #running

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#man #manners #mirror #portrait #shows

You know I've got a chum, a smashing mate, he's got a dog with no legs, and he calls it a cigarette. It's true, yeah, because at nighttime he has to take it out for a drag. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

#calls #chum #cigarette #dog #drag

You see I'm semi-retired now and don't work all the time, only most of it! ↗

— Norman Wisdom

#most #now #only #see #time

John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#insurrection #john #john brown #murder #slaves

However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#certain #children #however #man #master

The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#brown #came #clap #clear #ferry

This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#ann #better #business #confirmed #growing

I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important. ↗

— Robert Wise

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