A Statement on Simplicity and Ease
Bill O'Brien:
That wouldn't be hard.
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Defiance in a Tense Exchange
Nina Barone:
Please beat it! I'm no gun moll!
Bill O'Brien:
You ain't no buzzard's dish either - not when I'm around!
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Unexpected Origins in a City Encounter
Nina Barone:
Where are you from?
Bill O'Brien: [laughs]
I fell out of a policeman's whistle in Times Square.
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A Humorous Exchange on Drunkenness and Style
Gene Gibbons: [looking at her male escort]
Put your scissors away, Delilah, my hair's all cut. Is this stylish fellow my successor?
Sylvia Marbe:
Gene, you're drunk!
Gene Gibbons: [laughs]
Darling, you understate the case by three bottles and a thousand tears! Avaunt!
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Theater Life and Unseen Performers
Stage Doorman: [looking out into the darkened, empty theater]
Shhh! Hear that noise? That's the rats - always performing! If I left this scenery here, they'd eat it up - eat the whole theater up if it wasn't for the actors! The hollering frightens them.
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Angels Over Broadway - Eugene Gene Gibbons
Eugene Gene Gibbons:
Yesterday's pain is tomorrow's joke. And you'll always end up laughing if you can manage not to cut your throat first.
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Dealing Hope from the Bottom
Eugene Gene Gibbons:
They'll deal you hope off the bottom.
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A Veteran Corpse Reflects on Destruction
Eugene Gene Gibbons: [seeing a waiter put two drinks on the table; to Engle; offering him one of the drinks; drinks]
Fine, fine! I no longer have to order drinks. I just attract them. He shall have liquor wherever he goes! As I understand from your communication, Mr. Engle, you're on the brink of self-destruction. May I shake your hand? A brilliant idea! I speak as one who has destroyed himself a score of times. I am, Mr. Engle, a veteran corpse. We are all corpses here! This rendezvous is one of the musical graveyards of the town. Caters to zombies hopping around with dead hearts and price tags for souls. Hmmmp! Will you join me, sir? It is the custom here for the dead to drink - heavily! Allow me to present my credentials as a fellow cadaver. I'm being divorced by my wife whom I love dearly in my own nasty way. I was disemboweled by another woman. I have written three bad plays in a row, and next year I'll write a worse one. I have neither a home, a single hope, nor a shred of curiosity left. Bankrupt and broke, I've destroyed myself, sir, in becoming famous. I am no longer a man, Mr. Engle, I'm an epitaph over an ash can! And now, sir, what's your story?
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A Night to Remember and Reflect
Nina Barone: [to Bill O'Brien]
I'll remember this night for a long time. When things don't seem so good, I'll remember Mr. Gibbons, and Mr. Engle... and you.
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Desire for Unconventional Attire and Freedom
Nina Barone:
Oh, if only I had my slave costume and my chains!
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Illusions of Connection in Dance
Bill O'Brien:
I'm pretending there's something swell about you. This delusion came over me while we were dancing. You know, when you look into a girl's eyes and you think you see someone that isn't there... well that's what I saw.
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Opportunity in the Pigeon Club
Bill O'Brien: [on the telephone]
Hello, Dutch? Bill O'Brien! Say listen, I'm over at the Pigeon Club takin in the sights, and, uh, I ran into somethin that I thought might be of mutual interest to us. An out-of-town job came shoo-shooing in here a while ago and throwin away money like birdseed.
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