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Quote by Edward O'Connor Terry
“Yes,” replied the comedian; “but why?”
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The speaker agrees with what was said, then immediately asks for the reason behind it. The brief question shifts the focus from accepting a statement to examining its basis.
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- Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches
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“I try to bridge those worlds.”
“Saya masih Zizan yang sama cuma saya ingin memperbaiki diri dan melakukan sesuatu yang lain tetapi masih berteraskan kepada komedi.”
“I’m not a funny man but rather a serious person.”
“The important thing now is that in the conversation with the Australian people, we can only appeal to goodness.”
“Comedy is also teamwork.”
“You tell a joke, they laugh. If they don’t laugh, you fix it, you go in a different way.”
“That there are funny parts to us, that we laugh at ourselves.”
Read quote““Now we should talk about our history, make films about the human condition, the everyday drama of people, and I think, sophisticated comedies, good comedies.””
“舒服、好看、表达，衣服对我来说就是这样的。”
“It would be great to have a year or two where I went, ‘I’ve got nothing to say.’”
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