Very well then, here comes someone, as it might be me, and stands as it might be here, and says to the lamp, as I might do, collecting all my willpower, lamp, turn upside down in mid-air without breaking and go on burning steady.

21 seconds sound clip from the The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1954) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:28:26 in the DVD version of the movie.

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- Every human being, every house, every tree, all the world as we know it, had been destroyed. Luckily, with the sole exception of George Fotheringay.

- Well, there was only one thing for him to do.

- Oh dear, I wish I'd never started all this. Well, I'll see what I can do.

- Well, let me be back before ever the miracles began.

- Let everything be just as it was before the lamp turned upside down, back in the Long Dragon last Tuesday night.

- Very well then, here comes someone, as it might be me, and stands as it might be here, and says to the lamp, as I might do, collecting all my willpower, lamp, turn upside down in mid-air without breaking and go on burning steady.

- And precisely nothing happened.

- Well, as I said, it's a rather improbable story, but I can't think the author can have been pulling my leg out of respect for my cloth.

- After all, he was one of my parishioners.

- This is Ralph Richardson again.

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