Little Black Book - Perceptions of Beauty and Self-Worth
Lulu:
I didn't date much. I was shy. And ugly.
Stacy: [voice over]
Why do supermodels say how ugly they were when they were young? Is it because they want us to know they suffered? Do they think that it makes them more deserving? That we'll forgive them their bounty? Note to supermodels: None of us believe you.
Lulu:
No one invited me to the prom.
Barb: [dismissive]
Makes you stronger.
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Always - Struggling with Attraction to Idealized Beauty
Dorinda Durston:
He's too beautiful. He's too much twisted steel and sex appeal. I can't be with a guy that looks like I won him in a raffle.
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The Piano - Reflections on Loss and Solitude
Ada McGrath:
At night I think of my piano in its ocean grave, and sometimes of myself floating above it. Down there everything is so still and silent that it lulls me to sleep. It is a weird lullaby and so it is; it is mine.
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The Piano - Learning to Play in Isolation
Ada McGrath:
I teach piano now in Nelson. George has fashioned me a metal finger tip, I am quite the town freak which satisfies! I am learning to speak. My sound is still so bad I am ashamed. I practice only when I am alone and it is dark.
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The Piano - Embracing Life Amidst Unexpected Challenges
Ada McGrath:
What a death! What a chance! What a surprise! My will has chosen life! Still it has had me spooked and many others besides!
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The Piano - The Silent Voice of Ada McGrath
Ada McGrath:
The voice you hear is not my speaking voice - but my mind's voice. I have not spoken since I was six years old. No one knows why - not even me. My father says it is a dark talent, and the day I take it into my head to stop breathing will be my last. Today he married me to a man I have not yet met. Soon my daughter and I shall join him in his own country. My husband writes that my muteness does not bother him - and hark this! He says, "God loves dumb creatures, so why not I?" Twere good he had God's patience, for silence affects everyone in the end. The strange thing is, I don't think myself silent. That is because of my piano. I shall miss it on the journey.
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? - The End of Adventuring
Everett:
All's well that ends well," some poet said.
Penny:
That's right, honey.
Everett:
Don't mind telling you I'm awful pleased... My adventuring days have come to an end.
Penny:
That's good, honey.
Everett:
You were right about that ring, too. Any other wedding band wouldn't do. This here was fore-ordained. Fate was a-smilin on me, and...
Penny:
That's not my ring.
Everett:
What?
Penny:
That's not my ring.
Everett:
Not your ring?
Penny:
That's one of Aunt Herlene's.
Everett:
But you said it was in the roll-top desk.
Penny:
I said I thought it was in the roll-top desk.
Everett:
No, you said...
Penny:
Or under the mattress. Or maybe in my chifforobe. I don't know.
Everett:
Well, I'm sorry, honey.
Penny:
But we need that ring.
Everett:
Well, that ring is at the bottom of a pretty durn big lake.
Penny:
Uh-uh.
Everett:
A 9,000-hectare lake.
Penny:
I don't care if it was 90,000. That lake was not my doing.
Everett:
Of course not, honey...
Penny:
I counted to three, honey.
Everett:
No, wait, honey. Finding one little ring in the middle of all that water is one hell of a heroic task!
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Facing Awkward Truths in Relationships
Everett:
Why are you telling our gals that I was hit by a train?
Penny:
Lots of respectable people have been hit by trains. Judge Hobbie over in Cookville was hit by a train. What was I gonna tell them, that you got sent to the penal farm and I divorced you from shame?
Everett:
Uh, I take your point. But it does put me in a damn awkward position, vis-a-vis my progeny.
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Broadcast News - Complex Feelings in Professional Relationships
Jane Craig:
So you like me, huh?
Tom Grunick:
I like you as much as I can like anyone who thinks I'm an asshole.
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Broadcast News - Connection and Understanding in Communication
Tom Grunick:
You're an amazing woman - what a feeling having you inside my head!
Jane Craig: [smiling]
Yeah - it was - an unusual place to be.
Tom Grunick:
It's like - indescribable - you knew just when to feed me the next line, you knew the m... second before I needed it. There was like, a rhythm we got into - it was like - great sex!
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Broadcast News - The Burden of Perceived Superiority
Paul Moore:
It must be nice to always believe you know better, to always think you're the smartest person in the room.
Jane Craig:
No. It's awful.
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Broadcast News - Conflicting Emotions in Relationships
Aaron Altman:
And in the middle of all this, I started to think about the one thing that makes me feel really good and makes immediate sense... and it's you.
Jane Craig:
Oh, Bubba.
Aaron Altman:
I'm going to stop right now. Except that I would give anything if you were two people, so that I could call up the one who's my friend and tell her about the one that I like so much!
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Broadcast News - The Deceptive Nature of Attraction
Aaron Altman:
I know you care about him. I've never seen you like this about anyone, so please don't take it wrong when I tell you that I believe that Tom, while a very nice guy, is the Devil.
Jane Craig:
This isn't friendship.
Aaron Altman:
What do you think the Devil is going to look like if he's around? Nobody is going to be taken in if he has a long, red, pointy tail. No. I'm semi-serious here. He will look attractive and he will be nice and helpful and he will get a job where he influences a great God-fearing nation and he will never do an evil thing... he will just bit by little bit lower standards where they are important. Just coax along flash over substance... Just a tiny bit. And he will talk about all of us really being salesmen. And he'll get all the great women.
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