Norman Wisdom (Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom) Quotes
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.
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Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.
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Green, red, and mixed shades of haemins are known. If magnesium is replaced by iron in chlorophyll, green haemins are obtained. Their colour is due to a strong band in the red which is already recognized in chlorophyll.
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I know what it is like to fear violence. I understand the adrenalin rush that comes before violent confrontations. I write my scripts from an emotional point of view and direct so the audience can experience this adrenalin rush.
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With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.
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It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
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As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to my fingers, executed exactly as I saw fit, never veering from my own intent. TV simply doesn't work that way.
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A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.
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The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.
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I don't do evening business dinners, and I don't do weekends.
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Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.
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I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment.
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We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right.
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When I first was a part of 'The Monster,' I really wanted to put it out under my name, but no record label thought it was good enough - until Eminem liked it.
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The government must understand that it cannot substitute the health, nutrition, and overall development outcomes of Indian citizens with 'efficiency gains.'
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Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality will have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.
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Take away that fool’s bauble, the mace.
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Especially with girls, people always want to put them in little brackets.
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I don't even know if it's possible, but if it were, I'd like to make those kinds of old movies where the women were articulate and intelligent and flawed and witty.
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Life is short, and it is here to be lived.
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Old Hollywood glamour just seems, well, old.
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Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.
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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.
