Concerns About Annie's Behavior
Grace:
What about this child?
Miss Hannigan:
Annie?... Oh, you don't want Annie.
Grace:
Why not?
Miss Hannigan:
Because... Because she's a drunk!
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Excluding Annie from Adoption Considerations
Miss Hannigan:
You can have any orphan in the whole orphanage... except Annie.
Grace:
Well, why?
Miss Hannigan:
Because she's got it comin to her; and I *don't* mean a week in the lap of luxury'!
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A Moment of Affection and Rejection
Orphans:
We love you, Miss Hannigan.
Miss Hannigan:
Shut up!
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Miss Hannigan Enforces Strict Cleaning Rules
Miss Hannigan:
What are you just standing around here for? You're supposed to clean the bathroom and the kitchen before lunch, my little pig droppings, and if you skip the corners, there will be no lunch. And we're not having hot mush today...
Orphans:
Yay!
Miss Hannigan:
We're having *cold* mush!
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Evening Activities and Accusations in Shanties
Warbucks:
You spend your evenings in the shanties.
Miss Hannigan:
You had me followed.
Mr. Warbucks:
Imbibing quarts of bathtub gin.
Miss Hannigan:
Bronchitism.
Warbucks:
And here you're dancing in your scanties,
Miss Hannigan:
Great gams.
Warbucks:
With some old geezer called Little Caeser,
Miss Hannigan:
He's an uncle.
Warbucks:
You lock the orphans in the closet.
Miss Hannigan:
They love it!
Warbucks:
You hock their Christmas souvenirs.
Miss Hannigan:
Drink?
Warbucks:
You steal the funds you should deposit.
Miss Hannigan:
It's fresh.
Warbucks:
You make the grovel while you buy laveleers.
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Discussion About Annie's Future
Warbucks:
Miss Hannigan, I presume?
Miss Hannigan:
Yes?
Warbucks:
I wanna talk to you about Annie.
Miss Hannigan:
You wanna return her and forget her? Or trade up?
Warbucks:
I wanna adopt her.
Miss Hannigan:
Would you excuse me for a moment? Aaarggghh!
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Annie's Absence Causes Confusion Among Characters
Miss Hannigan:
Where's Annie?
Molly:
She had to go bathroom.
Miss Hannigan: [mockingly]
She had to go bathroom!
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Unexpected Family Revelations in Annie
Warbucks:
Annie's gone. Her parents came and took her away.
Molly:
But they wasn't her real parents, mister. They was bad people!
Warbucks:
LEAPING LIZARDS!!
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A Request for a Sweater Return
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Belief in Being Special Amidst Adversity
Annie:
I guess they're dead. I guess I've known that deep down for a long time.
Warbucks:
I'm not giving up. Don't you give up.
Annie:
I didn't want to be just another orphan, Mr. Warbucks. I wanted to believe I was special.
Warbucks:
You are special! Never stop believing that!
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The Value of Courage Over Materialism
Grace:
You love money and power and capitalism? You know they're never going to love you back...
Punjab:
Buddha says "A child without courage is like a night without stars!
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Defending the Orphan Against Harm
Miss Hannigan: [to Rooster about Annie]
She may be a mean, rotten little orphan, but I'm not gonna let you kill her!
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Questioning the Presence of Happiness
Miss Hannigan:
Do I hear happiness in here?
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Miss Hannigan's Frustration with Little Girls
Miss Hannigan:
Little girls, little girls, everywhere I turn I can see them.
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Miss Hannigan's Perspective on Wealth and Jealousy
Miss Hannigan: [singing]
Some women are drippin with diamonds / Some women are drippin with pearls / Lucky me, lucky me, look at what I'm drippin with / Little girls!
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Oliver Warbucks' Demands for Assistance
Oliver Warbucks:
Grace, give meJ. Edger on the phone!Drake, get methe chief of police! Asp, get meWalter Winchell!Punjab! Get meWillam Randolph Hearst!And Saunders,get me a drink.
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