Cate Blanchett

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Dance Lessons for Your Child
Lilith Buy your kid some dance lessons.
Acceptance of Responsibility and Understanding
Carol Aird I took what you gave willingly. It's not your fault, Therese.
Confronting Loss and Communication in Family
Nick Falzone What is it?
[Finds Connie crying in the living room]
Connie Falzone Sit down, Nick. I've been explaining to the kids what it means that daddy... won't be around anymore.
Nick Falzone Hey... hey, hey Connie. Wait a minute, Connie... Connie, do you even want to hear my side of this?
[drops bouquet]
Connie Falzone What's your side of my father dying...?
Bounty Hunter Responsibilities vs. Caretaking Duties
Lilith I'm a bounty hunter, not a baby sitter.
Whispers of Fear in the East
Galadriel Darkness crept back into the forests of the world. Rumor grew of a shadow in the East — whispers of a nameless fear.
Reassurance in Isolation
Lilith Don't worry. You won't be lonely down here.
Hela's Identity as the Goddess of Death
Hela You see, I'm not a queen, or a monster... I'm the Goddess of Death. Tell me, Brother: What were you the God of, again?
A Lighthearted Exchange on Spoiling Others
Hal So what do you think?
Jasmine I love it! You shouldn't spoil me so.
Hal Well why not? Who else am I going to spoil?
Exploring Emotions in Human Experience
Jude Feeling deeply, that's what this is about? What precisely, please do tell, am I supposed to be feeling, huh?
Keenan Jones I'm simply referring to standard emotions – pain, remorse, love.
Jude Yeah, I have none of those feelings.
Regret and Resentment in Relationships
Danny As disillusioned as I was with him, I hated you more.
Jasmine The moment I did what I did, I regretted it.
Danny I don't wanna discuss it. It's past. It's over. You can't take back that phone call.
Jasmine I need you, Danny.
Danny I don't wanna see you, Jasmine. I want the past past. I've become a different person, thanks to my wife. I'm off drugs. Just please, don't spoil everything. Just get out of my life so I can move on.
Shipping and Assembly in Conversation
Carol Aird Do you ship?
[considers purchasing model train set]
Therese Belivet Special delivery. You could have it in two or three days. We'll even assemble it for you.
Carol Aird Well. That's that. Sold.
The Changing Nature of the World
Galadriel The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it.
Conflict Between Max and Lydia Tár
Max You're a fucking bitch.
Lydia Tár And you are a robot.
Lilith's Disappointment in Zero Percent
Lilith So much for you zero percent.
A Mother's Struggle for Connection and Identity
Carol Aird I'm no martyr. I have no clue what is best for me. But I do know, and I feel it in my bones, what is best for my daughter. Now, I want visits with her, Harge. I don't care if they're supervised. I just want them to be regular. There was a time when I would have done almost anything. I would have locked myself away to keep Rindy with me. What use am I to her, to us, if I'm living against my own grain?
[puts on coat, preparing to leave attorney's office]
The Trouble with Howard Hughes
Katharine Hepburn There's too much Howard Hughes in Howard Hughes. That's the trouble.
Hela's Insightful Comparison to Her Father
Hela So simple, even a blind man could see it! Ooh. Now you remind me of Dad.
[Beating Thor in their duel; She slashes her sword across Thor's face, cutting out his right eye, then winces]
Misfits and Their Unique Truths
Katharine Hepburn Well, if you're deaf, you must own up to it. Get a hearing aid, or see my father. He's an urologist, but it's all tied up inside the body, don't you find?
Howard Mmm.
Katharine Me, I keep healthy. I take seven showers a day to keep clean, also because I'm so vulgarly referred to as "outdoors-y." Well, I'm not "outdoors-y," I'm athletic. I sweat! There it is, now we both know the sordid truth: I sweat, and you're deaf. Aren't we a fine pair of misfits?
Consequences of Manipulation and Responsibility
Sheba Hart What you say about me, about Richard - you're not fit to shine his shoes. And Ben, and Polly, that I'd be happier without them. Why did you do it? Because I didn't help you collect your cat? You've cost me my family!
[slaps Barbara; slaps Barbara again]
Barbara Covett No, no, take some responsibility! I gave you EXACTLY what you wanted! You'd still be stuck in that marriage without me.
Sheba Hart What?
Barbara Covett You can't accept it yet, but...
Sheba Hart You think I wanted to be here with you?
Barbara Covett You need me, I'm your friend!
Sheba Hart You put me in prison, I could get TWO years!
Barbara Covett They'll fly by! I'll visit you every week! We've so much life to live together!
Sheba Hart You think this is a love affair? A relationship? What, sticky gold stars, and - and a strand of my hair? And a receipt from Pizza Express? It's a flat in the Archway Road and you think you're ]! And where did you get my hair? Did you pluck it from the bath with some special fucking tweezers?
[[Virginia Woolf|Virginia frigging Woolf]
Barbara Covett You know it's rude to read a person's diary, it's private!
Sheba Hart We're not companions! We're not friends! You don't even like me!
Barbara Covett That's not true, I only have tender feelings for you, only love!
Sheba Hart You're barking, fucking mad. You don't know how to love. You have never, your whole life. Me, Jennifer Dodd. You're nothing but waste and disappointment! You bitter old virgin. You're lonely for a reason. They loathed you at school, all of them. I was the idiot who bothered, but only because no one told me you're a fucking vampire! So what is it, Bar? You want to roll around the floor like lovers? You want to fuck me, Barbara?
Barbara Covett Please don't diminish our...
Sheba Hart Our WHAT? What?
Barbara Covett Give it back. I know you! Selfish and vain, you think you have a divine right! You don't belong in the world, you belong here! You big baby!
Claiming Ownership in Creative Spaces
Lydia Tár It's my score! You fucking, little nothing!
Conflict and Frustration in a Tense Moment
Chili She doesn’t care about you! She’s a phony!
Jasmine Can you please not fight in here? I don’t think I can take it. For some reason my Xanax isn’t kicking in.
Reflection on Self-Perception and Identity
Carol Aird I never looked like that.
[to Therese, admiring her nude body]
Embrace Individuality Over Conformity
Lydia Tár There's no glory for a robot, Eliot. Do your own thing!
Reflections on Past Relationships and Home
Carol Aird You miss Richard?
Therese Belivet No. I haven't thought about him all day. Or of home, really.
A Celestial Reflection on Love
Carol Aird My angel. Flung out of space.
[to Therese when they pause to look at each other during sex for the first time]
Misunderstandings and Sympathy Among Friends
Richard Hart Excuse me. Could one of you tell me what's going on? Is this some kind of coven?
Barbara Covett I can explain perfectly. Would you like me to?
Sheba Hart No. It's just that Barbara's had some very bad news about her cat.
Richard Hart My condolences. Poor, poor pussy. Can I have my wife back, please?
Barbara Covett I don't like your tone.
Richard Hart Why is she always here? What kind of fucking spell has she cast on you?
Eager Fighters: Youthful Energy in Combat
Irina Spalko You fight like a young man; eager to begin, quick to finish!
[To Mutt while they are dueling]
Uncertainty in Communication Between Friends
Carol Aird I wish I… Have you h… heard something?
Abby Gerhard From Therese? No. She must have started her job at the Times, though.
Carol Aird I should have said, "Therese — wait.
[takes a deep drag on cigarette]
Parenting Perspectives in TÁR
Olga Metkina You have a child?
Lydia Tár Yes.
Olga Metkina I will never do that!
Lydia Tár Pets are best for some people.
The Transformation of History into Myth
Galadriel History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the Ring passed out of all knowledge.
A Moment of Connection and Vulnerability
Carol Aird You're trembling.
[leans down and kisses Therese]
Therese Belivet No, don't. I want to see you.
The Complexity of Traditional Music
Jude Doesn't really matter, you know, what kind of nasty names people invent for the music. But, uh, folk music is just a word, you know, that I can't use anymore. What I'm talking about is traditional music, right, which is to say it's mathematical music, it's based on hexagons. But all these songs about, you know, roses growing out of people's brains and lovers who are really geese and swans are turning into angels – I mean, you know, they're not going to die. They're not folk music songs. They're political songs. They're already dead. You'd think that these traditional music people would – would gather that mystery, you know, is a traditional fact, you know, seeing as they're all so full of mystery.
Keenan Jones And contradictions.
Jude Yeah, contradictions.
Keenan Jones And chaos.
Jude Yes, it's chaos, clocks, and watermelons – you know, it's – it's everything. These people actually think I have some kind of, uh, fantastic imagination. It gets very, uh … lonesome. But traditional music is just, uh … it's too unreal to die. It doesn't need to be protected. You know, I mean, in that music is the only true valid death you can feel today, you know, off a record player. But like everything else in great demand, people try to own it. Has to do with, like, uh, the purity thing. I think its meaninglessness is holy. Everybody knows I'm not a folk singer.
Contrasting Perspectives on Wealth and Appearance
Jasmine The flight was bumpy, the food was awful. I mean, you'd think, first class...
Ginger I thought you said you were broke.
Jasmine Well, yes. I'm tapped out. Really, I mean the government took everything.
[pause]
Ginger Well, you look great.
[pause]
Jasmine Oh, now who's lying!
A Conversation About Names and Heritage
Carol Aird So what kind of name is Belivet?
Therese Belivet It's Czech. It's changed. Originally....
Carol Aird It's very original.
Carol Aird And your first name?
Therese Belivet Therese.
Carol Aird Terez. Not Ter-eeza.
Carol Aird Therese Belivet. That's lovely.
[pronounces name slowly and deliberately]
Flirting Over a Redhead and Steakhouse
Abby Gerhard I got my eye on this redhead who owns a steak house outside of Paramus. I'm talking serious Rita Hayworth redhead.
Carol Aird Really? You think you got what it takes to handle a redhead?
Old-Fashioned Communication in Crisis
Irina Spalko So we will do this- what is expression? Old-fashion way. You will tell us.
The Challenges of Teaching Beyond the Classroom
Sheba Hart When you started teaching, didn't you want to give them a real education to help overcome... the poverty of their backgrounds?
Barbara Covett Oh yes, of course. But one soon learns that teaching is crowd control. We're a branch of the social services.
Sue Hodge Console yourself with the gems. That's when it's satisfying. Then you can make a real difference.
Barbara Covett The rest is just cattle-prod and pray.
Confronting Personal Struggles and Misunderstandings
Chili Ginger said you had a nervous breakdown.
Jasmine Well, she tends to be quite dramatic.
Chili Said you were in the street, talking to yourself.
Jasmine You know, I don't think that this is any of your business.
Chili No, but since I'm marrying her, we don't have any secrets between us.
Sleep and Dreamers: A Conversation on Rest
Jude Whoa, look at all these medicines! Hey man, what are those?
Man at Party Mandy's, make you sleep.
Jude Sleep? I don't need sleep. Sleep is for dreamers.
Trust and Deception in Relationships
Dwight Of course we can't get married! You lied to me!
Jasmine Oh no!
Dwight Up and down the line!
Jasmine No, no, no! I wanted to tell you the truth! I just didn't wanna ruin everything!
Dwight What?! Are you delusional?! Didn't you think I'd eventually find out?! What were you thinking?!
Jasmine I don't know what I was thinking! I don't know! That everything happened in the past! You and I loved each other and get married--
Dwight And what?! And what?! That it would just vanish?! Didn't you think that I would find out, if not today, or immediately eventually? Like after we were married? Or is that what you wanted? That you'd wait until it was too late?!
Jasmine Too late for what?! For your future plans where you needed the appropriate wife?!
[bitterly]
Dwight I'm not saying that it would've been an issue, but that you could stand by and deceive me until I married you!
Jasmine Oh, no, no, no, you mean till I trapped you, is what you mean.
[bitterly]
Dwight Your ethical behavior is equal to your ex-husband.
Jasmine I wasn't deceiving you when I said I loved you.
Dwight God, I found out by chance! It was just by sheer chance!
Jasmine Okay, if it's over, it's over. I get it. You're not marrying me. I brought everything on myself. I've only got myself to blame. I did it to myself, as usual. As usual. You and your stupid little French whore.
[begins mumbling to herself]
Dwight I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm taking you home.
[confused]
Jasmine Let me out of the car. Let me out of the car.
Dwight Don't be ridiculous.
Jasmine Can you just - can you just please let me out of the car.
Dwight But how are you gonna get home?
Jasmine I'm not going home. Can you let me out of the car. Let me out of the car!
The Allure of Forbidden Secrets
Barbara Covett Well, that's when you should've stopped it.
Sheba Hart I did! I told him I wouldn't teach him any more. But he refused to accept it, he just kept coming back. It began to feel like our secret, and well, secrets can be... seductive.
Searching for a Special Doll
Carol Aird I wonder if you might help me find this doll for my daughter.
[hands Frankenberg's salesgirl (Therese) a slip of paper]
Therese Belivet Bright Betsy. Oh, she cries. And wets herself.
The Sound of Peace
Lilith That ... I think is what peace sounds like.
The Creation of the One Ring
Galadriel In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged, in secret, a Master Ring to control all others. And into this Ring he poured all his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life. One Ring to rule them all.
Contemplating Relationships and Personal Choices
Carol Aird And do you live alone, Therese Belivet?
Therese Belivet I do. Well, there's Richard, he'd like to live with me. Oh no, it's nothing like that, I mean he'd like to marry me.
Carol Aird I see... And would you like to marry him?
[staring at Therese]
Therese Belivet Well, I barely even know what to order for lunch.
The Impact of Hobbits on Destiny
Galadriel For the time will soon come when Hobbits will shape the fortunes of all.
The Dangers of Overreacting to Differences
Lydia Tár Don't be so eager to be offended. The narcissism of small differences leads to the most boring kind of conformity.
The Importance of Listener Engagement in Questions
Lydia Tár It is always the question that involves the listener, never the answer.
A Conversation About a Small Town
Therese Belivet What town is this again?
[the morning after they first made love]
Carol Aird This? Waterloo. Isn't that awful?
[laughs]
Embracing Uniqueness Amidst Societal Norms
Katharine Hepburn You see, Howard, we're not like everyone else. Too many acute angles. Too many... eccentricities. We have to be very careful not to let people in or they'll make us into freaks.
Confrontation Over Loyalty and Relationships
Harge Aird What are you gonna do? Are you going to stay here with Abby over Christmas? You're going to stay with the shopgirl in there? Huh? What are you gonna do Carol? Huh? What is the plan?
Carol Aird Stop it.
Harge Aird Dammit. I put nothing past women like you, Carol.
Carol Aird You married a woman like me.
A Heartfelt Act of Release
Carol Aird Please believe that I would do anything to see you happy. So, I do the only thing I can — I release you.
[letter to Therese VO]
The Cost of Artistic Authenticity
Lydia Tár You want to dance the mask, you must service the composer. You gotta sublimate yourself, your ego, and, yes, your identity. You must, in fact, stand in front of the public and God and obliterate yourself.
The Essence of Love in Music
Lydia Tár And this piece was not born into aching tragedy. It was born into young love.
[Referring to Mahler's Adagietto Symphony 5]
Adam Gopnik And so you chose...
Lydia Tár Love.
Adam Gopnik Right, but precisely how long?
Lydia Tár Well, seven minutes!
Coping with Trauma and Anxiety in Public
Matthew Mom said you started screaming in the street.
Jasmine Anxiety, nightmares and a nervous breakdown, there's only so many traumas a person can withstand until they take to the streets and start screaming.
Hela's Claim to Power and Legacy
Hela I am Hela, Odin's firstborn, commander of the legions of Asgard, the rightful heir to the throne and the Goddess of Death. My father is dead. As are the princes. You're welcome.
The Pursuit of Knowledge and Truth
Irina Spalko And what I do not know, I find out.
Unexpected Reunion and Abandonment
Claptrap I'm dancing because... you're alive! Not because I thought you were dead!
[''Lilith wakes up after surviving a grenade blast thrown by Tiny Tina with Claptrap wheeling around whooping and scatting energetically, stops when they make eye contact'']
Lilith Heartwarming. Where are the others?
Claptrap They found a truck in the village and left... without me!
Lilith What village?
Confronting Challenges with Confidence
Katharine Hepburn Do your worst, Mr. Hughes!
New Year Reflections and Connections
Carol Aird Happy New Year.
Therese Belivet Happy New Year.
Carol Aird Harge and I never spend New Year's Eve together. Always a business function. Always clients to entertain.
Therese Belivet I always spend New Year's alone. In crowds. I'm not alone this year.
[pause]
Confronting Change and Personal Discontent
Chili Well how long you planning on staying with Ginger?
Jasmine No one wants to get out of here as fast as I do.
Chili I'm sure. This is a big comedown from what you're used to.
[offended]
Questioning Origins and Assumptions
Irina Spalko And where is it you would imagine I am from, Dr. Jones?
Hela's Claim to Asgard's Legacy
Hela To be honest, I expected more! Here's the difference between us. I'm Odin's firstborn, the rightful heir, the saviour of Asgard... and you're nothing!
[Duelling to the death with Thor; ...]
Entitlement and the Desire to Transgress
Sheba Hart This is going to sound sick, but something in me felt... entitled. You know, I've been good all my adult life. I've been a decent wife, a dutiful mother coping with Ben. This voice inside me kept saying "why shouldn't you be bad, why shouldn't you transgress? I mean, you've earned the right.
[to Barbara]
Desire for Knowledge and Understanding
Irina Spalko I want to know.
[Right before she gets consumed by the knowledge]
Confrontation Over Past Relationships and Justifications
Barbara Covett By the time I took my seat in the Gods, the opera was well into its final act.
[voiceover]
Richard Hart You're his teacher!
Sheba Hart And you were mine! I'm not justifying. I'm not trying to justify it...
Richard Hart You are so full of shit! It's totally different. You were twenty!
Sheba Hart He's sixteen in May. He's not some innocent...
Richard Hart Of course he's innocent! He's fucking fifteen! Are you insane? If you meant to destroy us, why not do it with an adult? That's the convention, it's worked for centuries!
Inhibitions and Nitrous Oxide Discussion
Dr. Flicker Have you ever gotten high on nitrous oxide?
Jasmine No.
Dr. Flicker It would remove your inhibitions.
Jasmine I don't really have any inhibitions.
The Nature of Male-Female Relationships
Katharine Hepburn Ha! Men can't be friends with women. They must possess them or leave them be. It's a primitive urge from caveman days. It's all in ]: Hunt the flesh, kill the flesh, eat the flesh. That's the male sex all over.
[[Charles Darwin|Darwin]
Crocodiles in Unexpected Places
Lydia Tár Is there something wrong with the water?
Cirio No. There are crocodiles.
Lydia Tár Oh. I didn't think they'd be this far inland.
Cirio They escaped from a ] movie.
[[Marlon Brando]
Lydia Tár Wow. That was a long time ago.
Cirio They survived.
Misunderstandings About Intentions and Relationships
Therese Belivet So I'm sure you thought it was a man who sent you back your gloves.
Carol Aird I did. Thought it might be the man in the ski department.
Therese Belivet I'm sorry.
Carol Aird No, I'm delighted. I doubt very much if I'd have gone to lunch with him.
Claptrap's Unexpected Gratitude and Repairs
Claptrap Whoa. Sorry. I thought for a moment there you ]. It was a really nice moment. I'll treasure it always. Also, I scavenged the final parts I needed from a dead transformer, and fixed the thing you so recklessly destroyed.
[''Pokes a contemplating Lilith''; ''Laughs''; [w:rigor mortis|had rigor mortis]
Lilith You didn't press this did you?
[''Claptrap holds up a flashing device and hands it to you'']
Claptrap I did not. I can crush it again if you'd like. "Oh, thank you Claptrap, you're indispensible". Thank you, Lilith, your praise warms my soul.
[''Lilith walks away, mimics Lilith's voice''; ''In normal voice'']
Comparing Partners: Perspectives on Relationships
Ginger You think Al is a step up from Chili?
Jasmine Anybody is a step up from Chili.
Farewell to Dr. Jones
Irina Spalko Do svidaniya, Dr. Jones.
[Right before trying to push his truck off a cliff]
An Invitation for Sunday Visit
Carol Aird What you do on Sundays?
Therese Belivet Nothing in particular. What do you do?
Carol Aird Nothing lately. Maybe you'd like to come visit me some time. You're welcome to. At least there's some pretty country around where I live. Would you like to come visit me this Sunday?
[responds without hesitation]
Carol Aird What a strange girl you are.
Carol Aird Flung out of space.
Questioning Feelings in a Complex Relationship
Carol Aird Do you hate me, Therese?
Confronting Self-Esteem and Personal Choices
Jasmine Oh, for Christ sake! What's wrong with your self-esteem?! There's a world of men out there who never think about ripping the phone out of the wall!
Ginger Hey, leave him alone. You're always picking on him.
Jasmine No, you choose losers, okay? Because that's what you think you deserve. And that's why your living like this and that's why you'll never have a better life.
Ginger I'm.. I'm living... I'm living like this! Because you married the biggest loser of all! And went your own sweet way! While he pissed away my one big chance to make a better life!
[tearfully]
A Journey of Unexpected Companionship
Carol Aird I'm going away for a while.
Therese Belivet When? Where?
Carol Aird Wherever my car will take me. West. Soon. And I thought... perhaps you might like to come with me. Would you?
[looks directly at Therese]
Therese Belivet Yes. Yes, I would.
[looks directly at Carol]
Unexpected Reactions in a Conversation
Jasmine Oh! That's... sudden.
Dwight What's your reaction?
Jasmine My reaction is you can do it again if you want.
Need for transportation in Borderlands
Lilith We're gonna need some wheels.
Gift of Light in Dark Times
Galadriel Farewell, Frodo Baggins. I give you the Light of Eärendil, our most beloved star. May it be a light for you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
Choosing Between Room Options at the Motel
McKinley Motel Manager Our standard rooms come equipped with stereophonic console radios, or we do have the Presidential Suite available for a very attractive rate.
Carol Aird Two standard rooms should be fine.
Therese Belivet Why not take the Presidential Suite? I mean, if the rate's attractive.
[Carol turns to look at Therese]
Ordering Food and Drinks at a Restaurant
Carol Aird I'll have the creamed spinach over poached eggs. And a dry martini with an olive.
[to Waiter]
Therese Belivet Um... I'll have the same.
Waiter The meal or the drink?
Therese Belivet Um... All of it. Thank you.
Uncertainty in Choices and Actions
Abby Gerhard Tell me you know what you're doing.
Carol Aird I don't. I never did.
[she looks at Abby and smiles slyly]
Carol's Desire and Acknowledgment
Carol Aird Now what happened with Therese — I wanted. And I will not deny it.
Jude's One-Word Response to Fans
Reporter Jude! One word for your fans?
Jude Ocelot.
A Moment of Truth on Live Television
Dr. Randall Mindy I don't feel so good.
Brie Evantee Alright, so I think what we'll do, we'll go to commercial break...
Dr. Randall Mindy No, please, please Brie. Don't cut away. Let me say something
Jack Bremmer You came to the right place, because on this show, we like to say things...
Dr. Randall Mindy Would you please, just stop being so pleasant? I'm sorry, but not everything needs to sound so goddamn clever or charming or likeable all the time. Sometimes we need to just be able to say things to one another. We need to hear things! Look, let's establish, once again, that there is a huge comet headed towards Earth. And the reason we know that there is a comet is because we saw it. We saw it with our own eyes using a telescope. I mean, for God's sake, we took a fucking picture of it! What other proof do we need? And if we can't all agree at the bare minimum that a giant comet the size of Mount Everest, hurtling its way towards planet Earth is not a fucking good thing, then what the hell happened to us? I mean, my God, how do-- How do we even talk to each other? What've we... What've we done to ourselves? How do we fix it? We should have deflected this comet when we had the fucking chance, but we didn't do it. I don't know why we didn't do it. And now they're actually firing scientists like me for speaking out, for opposing them. And I'm sure many of the people out there aren't even gonna listen to what I just said cause they have their own political ideology, but I... .I assure you, I am not on one side or the other. I'm just telling you the fucking truth.
[[bleep]
Brie Evantee I-I think this would be a good time to establish that Isherwell and the president have both said that there's benefits to be...
Dr. Randall Mindy Right, well, the president of the United States. Is fucking. Lying! Look I'm just like all of you. I hope to God, I hope to... God that this president knows what she's doing. I hope she's got us all taken care of, but the truth is... I think, this whole administration, has completely. Lost. Their fucking mind! And I think. We're all. Gonna die!
The Complexity of Artistic Evaluation
Lydia Tár The problem with enrolling yourself as an ultrasonic epistemic dissident is that if Bach's talent can be reduced to his gender, birth country, religion, sexuality, and so on, then so can yours. Now, some day, Max, when you go out into the world, and you guest conduct for a major or minor orchestra, you may notice that the players have more than light bulbs and music on their stands. They will also have been handed rating sheets - the purpose of which is to rate you. Now, what kind of criteria would you hope that they use to do this? Your score reading and stick technique, or something else?
Hela's Reflection on Asgard's Forgotten History
Hela Does no-one remember me? Has no-one been taught our history? Look at these lies. Goblets and garden parties? Peace treaties? Odin... proud to have it... ashamed of how he got it. We were unstoppable. I was his weapon in the conquest that built Asgard's empire. One by one, the realms became ours. But then, simply because my ambition outgrew his... he banished me. Caged me. Locked me away like an animal. Before that, Asgard's warriors were honored, their bodies buried as heroes beneath this very place.
[''Awaits an answer'']
Self-Reflection on Age and Risk
Lilith I'm a bit old, I think, to be setting myself on fire for your amusement.
Seeking an Escape from a Dire Situation
Lilith Is there any way out of here that doesn't involve garbage?
Interest in Humans and Personal Boundaries
Carol Aird Were those pictures of me you were taking at the tree lot?
Therese Belivet I'm sorry. I should have asked.
Carol Aird Don't apologize.
Therese Belivet I've just been trying to... well, I have a friend who told me I should be more interested in humans.
Carol Aird And how's that going?
Therese Belivet It's going well, actually.
[smiling as she replies]
Exploring Uncertainty in Communication
Therese Belivet I wanna know. I think. I mean, I wanna ask you things. But I'm not sure that you want that.
[on telephone]
Carol Aird Ask me. Things. Please.
[crying]
A Unique Approach to Ice Cream Consumption
Katharine Hepburn Can't you eat ice cream out of a bowl like everyone else in the world?!
Familiarity with the surroundings
Lilith I know this place.
[''Surveying derelict playground''; ''Flashbacks reveal Lilith's mother running away with her from a Psychos attack'']
Moral Dilemmas in Unconventional Relationships
Sheba Hart I hadn't been pursued like this for years... I knew it was wrong, and immoral, and completely ridiculous, but, I don't know. I just allowed it to happen.
Barbara Covett The boy is fifteen!
Sheba Hart But he's quite mature for his age!
Frustration in a Moment of Despair
Carol Aird Just when you think it can't get any worse, you run out of cigarettes.
A Moment of Defiance in Borderlands
Lilith I have something you'll never have.
Atlas What's that ?
Lilith Enough.