Memorable Quotes from Paul Schneider
5 quotesQuestioning the Humor of a Situation
Gus
What are we doing? Why are we doing this for him?
Karin
Oh, come on. It's funny!
Gus
Is it?
Karin
I don't know. I don't know, maybe not.
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Understanding Mental Health and Family Dynamics
Dagmar
Have there been any changes in the family in the last year or so?
Gus
No, everything is pretty much exactly the same except Karin is pregnant and Lars is nuts.
[while Karin simultaneously nods "Yes"]
Dagmar
You know, this isn't necessarily a bad thing. What we call mental illness isn't always just an illness. It can be a communication; it can be a way to work something out.
Gus
Fantastic. When will it be over?
Dagmar
When he doesn't need it anymore.
Karin
How can we help?
Dagmar
Go along with it.
Karin
Oh, no. No, that's... No.
Gus
Oh, my. No, no, no. No. No, I mean, pretend that she's real? I'm not gonna do that. I mean, I can't. I'm just not gonna do it.
Dagmar
She is real.
Gus
Well...
Dagmar
She's right out there.
Gus
Right, right, I get that, but I'm just not gonna, you know...
Dagmar
You won't be able to change his mind, anyway. Bianca's in town for a reason.
Gus
But - but...
Dagmar
It's not really a choice.
Karin
Okay. Okay, all right, we'll do it, whatever it takes.
Gus
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And everyone's gonna laugh at him.
Dagmar
And you.
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The Power of Words and Perception
Ed Miller
I was with a girl once. Wasn't a squaw, but she was purty. She had yellow hair, like uh... oh, like something.
Dick Liddil
Like hair bobbed from a ray of sunlight?
Ed Miller
Yeah, yeah. Like that. Boy, you talk good.
Dick Liddil
You can hide things in vocabulary.
Ed Miller
Maybe you and me could write her a note, send it by post?
Dick Liddil
See, all you gotta do, Ed, is predict her needs and beat her to the punch.
Ed Miller
Well, this girl, she had a real specific job.
Dick Liddil
Specific?
Ed Miller
We's only together once. She's afraid of lightning. She came up into the wagon and just cuddled right up to me. She gave me a kind price, too.
Dick Liddil
Well I'll be! That is specific.
Ed Miller
Yeah, sure, she been with other people. But the kinds of things she said to me, people just don't say unless they really mean it.
[[Catullus|My love said she would marry only me, and Jove himself could not make her care, for what women say to lovers, you'll agree, one writes on running water, or on air.]
Ed Miller
My God that's good. Let's write her that.
Dick Liddil
Naw. Poetry don't work on whores.
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Cultural Rites and Coming of Age
Lars
I was talking to Bianca, and she was saying that in her culture they have these rites of passages and rituals and ceremonies, and just all kinds of things that, when you do them, go through them, let you know that you're an adult. Doesn't that sound great?
Gus
It does.
Lars
How'd you know?
Gus
How'd I know what?
Lars
That you were a man.
Gus
Ahhh. I couldn't tell ya.
Lars
Was it... Okay, was it sex?
Gus
Um. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's uh, yeah, yeah it's kind of— it's, uh— No. Well, it's kind of sex but it's not, uh, you know? I don't know. I don't know. It's— uh... good question, good question.
Lars
Yeah, but I have to know.
Gus
Hold that thought. You know, you should ask Dagmar.
[the dryer buzzes; goes into the basement, Lars follows]
Lars
I did ask Dagmar. And she said that I should ask you.
Gus
Okay, you know I can only give you my opinion.
Lars
That's what we want.
Gus
Well, it's not like you're one thing or the other, okay? There's still a kid inside but you grow up when you decide to do right, okay, and not what's right for you, what's right for everybody, even when it hurts.
Lars
Okay, like what?
Gus
Like, you know, like, you don't jerk people around, you know, and you don't cheat on your woman, and you take care of your family, you know, and you admit when you're wrong, or you try to, anyways. That's all I can think of, you know. It sounds like it's easy and for some reason it's not.
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Opposites Attract: Love and Life Lessons
Hollie Baylor
We were complete opposites and it worked. And something happened between us that was not part of the plan... we were in love.
Jessie Baylor
I teach my kids about the things that really matter. I will teach them about ] and ], because they are equally important in my house.
[[Abraham Lincoln; [w:Ronnie Van Zandt|Ronnie Van Zandt]
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