Superman III - Acknowledging Sacrifice and Deserving Rest
Perry White:
I don't have to tell you, it isn't easy for me to lose one of my best reporters.
Clark Kent:
Oh, that's okay.
Perry White:
But you deserve the vacation, Lois.
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Superman III - The Importance of Being Prepared as a Photographer
Perry White:
I don't understand you, Olsen. A boring banquet and you bring me three thousand boring pictures. Yet Superman saves a man from drowning on 3rd Avenue this morning while you stand there watching the whole thing and you don't even bring me one picture.
Jimmy Olsen:
Chief, I didn't have my camera with me.
Perry White:
A photographer eats with his camera. A photographer sleeps with his camera.
Lois Lane:
I'm glad I'm a writer.
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Superman IV: The Quest for Peace - A Brief Exchange on Timeliness
Perry White:
You're late, Kent.
Clark Kent:
I'm sorry, Mr. White. It won't happen again.
Perry White:
Ha!
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Superman II - Urgent News Assignment for Clark Kent
Perry White:
Kent, I need a story to run with the page three sidebar. Get me everything you can on this terrorist group.
Clark Kent: [stops]
Right! Uh, sorry. T... terrorists?
Perry White:
Get your head out of the closet, Kent! Where've you been for the past twelve hours?
Clark Kent:
Home.
Perry White:
Well, don't you watch television?
Clark Kent:
Well actually I don't enjoy television, Mister White, there's too much violence. I was just reading Dickens.
Jimmy Olsen:
(races in) Mr. Kent! A gang of terrorists seized the Eiffel Tower! In Paris!
Perry White:
He knows where the Eiffel Tower is, Olsen! You do, don't you Kent?
Clark Kent:
Yes, sir. Has anybody been hurt?
Jimmy Olsen:
Well, so far the hostages are unharmed.
Clark Kent:
The hostages?
Jimmy Olsen:
Yeah! Tourists! About twenty of them!
Perry White:
Yeah, but that's just petty-ante stuff. These guys claim that if the French government doesn't meet their demands, they've got a hydrogen bomb ready to level Paris.
Clark Kent:
(genuinely surprised) Well, geez Mr. White. That's t... terrible!
Perry White:
That's why they call them "terrorists", Kent.
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Superman - Salary Arrangement Inquiry in the Workplace
Clark Kent:
Excuse me, Mr. White. I was wondering if, if, uh, perhaps you could arrange for half my salary to be sent to this address on a weekly basis.
Lois Lane:
Your bookie, right?
Clark Kent:
My what?
Clark Kent: [brief pause as they both realize he's not kidding]
Actually, she's silver-haired.
Perry White:
Yeah. I'll see what I can do.
Lois Lane:
Any more at home like you?
Clark Kent:
Uh, not really, no.
Lois Lane:
I didn't think so.
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Superman - The Art of Reporting Excellence
Jimmy Olsen:
Golly, Miss Lane, how come you get all the best stories?
Lois Lane:
A good reporter doesn't get great stories, Jimmy...
Perry White: [to Clark]
...a good reporter makes them great.
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Superman - Perry White on Clark Kent's Talents
Perry White:
Lois, Clark Kent may seem like just a mild-mannered reporter, but listen, not only does he know how to treat his editor-in-chief with the proper respect, not only does he have a snappy, punchy prose style, but he is, in my forty years in this business, the fastest typist I've ever seen.
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