Memorable Quotes from Miriam Margolyes
1 quoteCelebrating Balto's Endurance and Loyalty
Balto
Jenna!
[runs over to play with Jenna. They chase each other around, and then touch noses. After nuzzling, they smile lovingly at each other, then turn and look out upon the crowd of cheering humans, Boris, Muk, Luk, and dogs]
Star
Way to go, Balto!
Kaltag
He has the most endurance, the most fidelity, the most intelligence-
Star
They should build a statue of him!
Kaltag
You said it!
[immediately elbows Star as if to hit him again. Star cringes]
Star
I did?
[looks up, surprised; Kaltag smiles at him, and so does Nikki]
Rosy's granddaughter
This is it, Grandma! Blaze found it.
Grandma Rosy
What does it say?
Rosy's granddaughter
Dedicated to the... indomable?
Grandma Rosy
Indomitable.
Rosy's granddaughter
Indomitable spirit of the sled dogs.
Grandma Rosy
That relayed antitoxin 600 miles from Nenana to the relief of stricken Nome... in the winter of 1925.
Rosy's granddaughter
Endurance, fidelity, intelligence." Balto really did do all that, didn't he, Grandma?
Grandma Rosy
Oh, yes, sweetheart. He really did. And today, they run the Iditarod Dog Race over the very path he and the others took.
[places a musher's hat on her granddaughter's head]
Rosy's granddaughter
Can Blaze do that too, Grandma?
[Blaze briefly looks up, before dropping his head again]
Grandma Rosy
Maybe. With practice. A lot of practice.
[Blaze proceeds to bark; laughs]
Rosy's granddaughter
Come on, Blaze. Come on! Mush!
[walks Blaze away]
Grandma Rosy
Thank you, Balto. I would've been lost without you.
Rosy's granddaughter
Grandma Rosy! Grandma Rosy, come on let's go!
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