Memorable Quotes from Emily Watson
12 quotesHumor Perceptions in British Culture
Henry Denton
You Brits really don't have a sense of humor do you?
Elsie
We do if something's funny, sir.
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Gender Roles and Work Expectations
Angela McCourt
If I were able I would go to work in ]
[[w:Industrial Revolution|the English factories.]
Malachy
Factory's no place for a woman Angela.
Angela McCourt
Sittin’ on your arse is no place for a man Malachy.
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A Surprise Gift of Oranges
Kirstie MacMorrow
Mummy! Look what I've got.
[arrives on a bicycle; hands Anne an orange]
Anne MacMorrow
Where did you get that?
Kirstie MacMorrow
Every volunteer got four oranges today.
Anne MacMorrow
I haven't had an orange in Lord knows how long.
Kirstie MacMorrow
How was the shore? Did Angus have fun?
Anne MacMorrow
Angus, fun?
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Suggestion to Join the Church Choir
Beryl Wilde
I'd like to make a suggestion. Might sound a bit unusual, but I have seen it work wonders. I think that you should consider joining the church choir.
Jane Hawking
Mum, I think that's possibly the most English thing anyone has ever said.
[chuckling]
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Doubt and Disbelief in the Extraordinary
Anne MacMorrow
A sea monster? Are you telling me this has all been about a sea monster?! What is going on here?! Has anyone gone mad?! A sea monster?! There is no monster. There's just you with your bloody gun! And you, filling his head with tales of sea creatures and magic? There's no monster, and there's no magic.
[turns to Captain Hamilton; turns to Lewis]
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The Complexity of Existence and Human Connection
Claire Keen
Knowing that you don't know is the first and most essential step to knowing, you know?
Tammy
I feel ok, mostly... fucking might help.
Adele Lack
Everyone is disappointing the more you know them.
Pastor
Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true. There are a million little strings attached to every choice you make; you can destroy your life every time you choose. But maybe you won't know for twenty years. And you may never ever trace it to its source. And you only get one chance to play it out. Just try and figure out your own divorce. And they say there is no fate, but there is: it's what you create. And even though the world goes on for eons and eons, you are only here for a fraction of a fraction of a second. Most of your time is spent being dead or not yet born. But while alive, you wait in vain, wasting years, for a phone call or a letter or a look from someone or something to make it all right. And it never comes or it seems to but it doesn't really. And so you spend your time in vague regret or vaguer hope that something good will come along. Something to make you feel connected, something to make you feel whole, something to make you feel loved. And the truth is I feel so angry, and the truth is I feel so fucking sad, and the truth is I've felt so fucking hurt for so fucking long and for just as long I've been pretending I'm OK, just to get along, just for, I don't know why, maybe because no one wants to hear about my misery, because they have their own. Well, fuck everybody. Amen.
Elke Putzkammer
If the year is a life, then ], the beginning of fall, is when the bloom is off the rose and things start to die. It's a ] month and maybe because of that, quite beautiful.
[[September; [melancholy]
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Survival and Violence in Harsh Realities
Samuel Stote
Without me and my crack shootin', you'd be fucking dingo dinner. 30 yards away, I was. And, pchoo! Blew that black bastard's head right off. It was beautiful.
Martha Stanley
She was my friend!
Soldiers
On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: five cats a-floggin, four nooses swinging, three crows a-pecking, two dogs a-pissing, and little Mikey hanging from a pear tree!
[singing]
Eden Fletcher
If you have to kill one, make sure you bloody well kill them all.
Jacko
Fellow in the picture, he live in a cave. Dog man. Big fella. He said Dog Man never sleep. He sit there all day. Sit down, in the cave. Way up. He live with small fella and black fella. Cannot catch him. Cannot kill him.
Jacko
Strange mob, you whities.
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Climbing Everest: Beauty, Competition, and Preparation
Anatoli Boukreev
We don't need competition between people. There is competition between every person and this mountain. The last word always belongs to the mountain.
Doug Hansen
I'm climbing Mount Everest... because I can... because to be able to climb that high and see that kind of beauty that nobody ever sees, it'd be a crime not to.
Helen Wilton
That's the cooking tent, and over there is the toilet. It's a little bit drafty, but just remember that when the wind gets up here, you've got the same view that George Everest did.
Caroline MacKenzie
From a medical standpoint getting you to the top of Everest is really about oxygen. And the lack of it. To give you the best chance of summiting you need to prepare your bodies for the thin air up there.
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The Complexity of Pity and Authenticity
Reba McClane
If there's anything I hate worse than pity, it's fake pity. Especially from a walking hard-on like Ralph Mandy.
Francis Dolarhyde
I have no pity.
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Encouraging Focus on Responsibilities
Anne MacMorrow
Kirstie, Angus, run along. We don't want to distract our guests from their duties.
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A Conversation on Humanity and Attraction
Will Graham
That's all for now, but I'd like to come back before I leave town to see how you're doing.
[to Reba]
Reba McClane
Sure. Who could resist a charmer like me?
[choking up]
Will Graham
Whatever was left in him that was still human was only kept alive because of you. You probably saved some lives. You didn't attract a freak... You attracted a man with a freak on his back.
Reba McClane
I should have known!
[crying]
Will Graham
Sometimes you can't. Trust me, I've been there myself. There was a lot wrong with Dolarhyde, but there's nothing wrong with you. Except your hair. Your hair is a train wreck.
[smiles]
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Seeking a Way Home
Anne MacMorrow
Angus, this is not the place for us. Can someone drive us home, please?
[after a botched demonstration]
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