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Hugh Leonard

"I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer."

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"I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer."

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"And I'm as attached to my wife as anybody can be to another human being."

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"I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago."

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"I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion."

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"The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife."

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"He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows."

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"If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter."

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"A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife."

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"If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?"

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"You know, grieve your wife, this is an impulsive thing and you have no idea the kind of trouble you're getting yourself into it. And of course he doesn't listen to me and he adopts this child."

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"I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance."

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