Currency

Billions 2×5

& Axelrod: Thing is, it’s not your turn to speak.
    Wags: Why’s that?
    Axelrod: Because while you have been out there learning the Yaqui Way or how to run like the Tarahumara, I have been in here fighting the battle of fucking Thermopylae!

& Taylor: I thought it was an all-hands situation, urgent.
    Axelrod: Yes, it is. But the greats never sacrifice the important for the urgent. They handle the immediate problem and still make sure to secure the future.

& Axelrod: The only currency that this firm has... that any firm has these days... is its winning streak. The Kevlar of «knowing the answer.» You break that, you break the whole thing.

& Axelrod: Nobody leaves here until you hand me an idea that I can shock the world with in a few days time!

& Mafee: There’s this currency play....
    Axelrod: Are you transmitting me the details telepathically?

& Chuck: Have you ever been hunting, Sacker?
    Kate: Uh, no, I’m black.
    Chuck: I didn’t realize that was a thing.
    Kate: It is.

& Dr. Gus: I’ll skip the cooldown.
    Axelrod: No need. This’ll be quick, and then you can get back at it.
    Dr. Gus: Nope. You’re in here. Let’s be here. Together.

& Bryan: Oh, we put them in the basket before we play, because, you know... Because Go players didn’t have cellphones in ancient times.

& Chuck: Oh, I almost forgot, you better block that monkey jump at the bottom.

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& Krakow: But, Axe, if this is some move, some game you’re playing... we’ll hunt you in a pack until we’re gnawing on your fucking bones.

& Dake: The office is a fiefdom run on fear, ambition, and advancement.
    Allerd: Probably why it’s been so effective.

& Allerd: Something I learned when I was working under Mondale... take a little piece of yourself, tuck it away in the basement. You can give the rest to the job, but keep a small piece. I speak from experience.

& Taylor: I find myself thinking in your words sometimes. The two that just came to me are «shit hole.»

& Wendy: Wags, wake up. Get up.
    Wags: Oh, baby, no!
    Wendy: No, not baby. It’s Wendy. Get up!

& Wags: My idea was the drinking, women, and drugs in perfect balance. An infinite Zen garden.
    Wendy: Simplicity, harmony between the elements, purity, that’s what makes it a Zen garden.

& Wendy: Couple ways this can go... We do, like, intense psychotherapy for two years, five days a week, break down your walls, push past your rationalizations and defenses. Or... you can tell me what the fuck is going on.

& Axelrod: You were wrong. I’m not human. I am a machine. I’m a fucking Terminator.

& Kate: You never finished your story. What trap did you and your father use to finally get that wolf?
    Chuck: Oh. Yeah, it was, uh, time, Sacker. We stayed in the same location all day. The trap was time.

& Lara: .... You said to go ahead.
    Axelrod: Don’t. Don’t. I don’t have time to have this conversation the way you need me to. You weren’t ready. Leave it there.
    Lara: Why the fuck not?
    Axelrod: What is it that you do that you’re the best in the world at? You offer a service you didn’t invent, a formula you didn’t invent, a delivery method you didn’t invent. Nothing about what you do is patentable or a unique user experience. You haven’t identified an isolated market segment, haven’t truly branded your concept. You need me to go on? So, why would an investment bank put serious money into it? I all but told you ahead of time, but you wouldn’t listen. Now you’ve heard it, but it’s too late. You. Weren’t. Ready.

& Axelrod: How can I help now?

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Pyre

The Expanse 2×9

& Dawes: ....This is the way it has been until now. No more.

& Cargo owner: Belter life first from now on.

& Fred: Look, the protomolecule is out in the world now, we just have to accept that. And figure out how to deal with it.

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& Naomi: Jim... Jim! I know you feel like we failed...
    Holden: As long as we’re living and breathing there’s more we can do. We just have to be strong enough.

& Alex: You know what your problem is?... Your problem is the only person you give a shit about is yourself.
    Amos: Isn’t that most people’s problems? If they’re being honest?

& Holden: I love you, too. I’ll love you through it all. I promise.

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Максим Фрай — Чуб земли (4/4)

<< Ранее

&  Одно из немногих достоинств гнева – он сильнее страха.

&  Еще одно неоспоримое достоинство гнева: от него глупеешь настолько, что больше одной коротенькой мыслишки в голове попросту не помещается.

&  Время – оно ведь состоит из перемен, больших и малых, внешних и внутренних, заметных и почти неразличимых; вернее, перемены – это чуть ли не единственный доступный всякому человеку способ почувствовать ход времени (скачки секундной стрелки, движение песчинок, изливающихся из верхней чаши в нижнюю, – тоже перемены, малосущественные, да, зато вполне наглядные).

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&  – Вы и сами должны знать, что людям свойственно переоценивать чужое могущество.

&  Говорить людям правду – бессмысленная трата времени и слов. Все равно ведь не поверят.

&  – Нет ничего легче, чем убедить человека в том, что дела обстоят именно так, как ему бы втайне хотелось...

&  – Все мы смешные. Каждый по-своему – и вы, и я. Не доверяю людям, в которых нет вообще ничего смешного, но таких очень мало...

  ... Но это уже совсем другая история.”

>> Туланский детектив (Хроники Ехо — 1.2) (будет (בהנ"ו))

The Oath

Billions 2×4

& Wendy: This is the first one you sent into orbit.
    Craig: Yeah. We’re two generations beyond Manticore. Manticore-3...
    Wendy: «The first ship to make a manned mission to Mars.»
    Craig: That your impersonation of me?
    Wendy: Well, you’ve certainly said it enough times.
    Craig: That’s how I make it happen.

& Craig: There she is. Right on time. Does that mean anything?
Wendy: Yeah, that her watch works.

& Kornbluth: If you really want this team, you got to ask yourself... How are you gonna change hearts and minds today?

& Chuck: Well, the Japanese would be proud. You waited until the meal was done. But at this point, hit me with it, and let us both get on with our days.

& Chuck: Bryan. He’s all man. He’s John Wayne in Liberty Valance. ’Cause most fellas in his position would run and hide, but he is standing in.

& Chuck: Setback. Not a defeat. I promise.

& Axelrod: Most folks, when they get their first job on the Street, cold-calling out of phone books, they think the idea is, get the mark to yes. But the way I saw it... and it bought me a 911 my first year... is never give them a reason to say no, because if you take «no» out of their vocabulary...
    Bach: «Yes» is the only word left.

& Bach: Let’s not give him a perjury charge for nothing. I know you don’t get rattled, but if you get rattled, even for a second, don’t answer. Just ask for a break.

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& Bensinger: When you ask a person to invest his money with you, that’s a seduction. When you ask him to pledge his net worth...
    Axelrod: That’s what the Mongols did when they sacked a village.
    Bensinger: I was gonna say it’s a marriage.
    Axelrod: Well, the Mongols called it that, too.

& Bensinger: Most people don’t like to think about giving their money away. It makes them think they’re gonna die. But you can rest assured... You are gonna die.

& Bensinger: Why do you make so much money?
    Axelrod: Because I can.
    Bensinger: Bullshit. A lot of things you can do that you don’t... bark like a seal, ride the subway. You make money because it feels good. Well, here’s the crazy thing. Giving it away feels better.

& Bensinger: Do you remember what it felt like to make that first million? I didn’t feel that good again until I pledged to give away 20,000 times that. It’s the cure. Accumulation with no end in sight is gluttony. That’s the disease.
    Axelrod: I thought it was a sin.
    Bensinger: Fuck sin. Fuck piety. I’m talking about what you can use. Gluttony hollows you out. Giving goes the other way. I know. It’s a fucking paradox, but I worked it out.

& Bensinger: The reason that nothing levers up your happiness like giving is because it puts you back in charge of the only thing that you ever really cared about... yourself. That’s why I founded the Giving Oath.

& Chuck: This is the first wave at Normandy. You know what happened on the first wave.
    Bryan: Got cut down.
    Chuck: Right. Ensuring that the second wave had a fighting chance.

& Chuck: You know, the best way to bond with someone isn’t doing a favor. It’s asking for one. That’s the Franklin Effect. You make the other person feel valued, like you’ve given them power... so you won’t hurt them.

& Axelrod: Will you draft the Giving Oath letter?
    Stephanie: What do you want in there?
    Axelrod: The usual stuff... good for people, communities.
    Stephanie: Got it.
    Axelrod: And when it’s done, you give it to Bill to read to the world.
    Stephanie: Gates or Clinton?
    Axelrod: Either. Both.

& Chuck: What’s on your mind?
    Kate: My father.... He isn’t who I thought.
    Chuck: Well, every child in the history of the world has learned that.

& Chuck: You have to protect the parent-child relationship. Anyone else in the world will fuck you over... friends, lovers... bosses... No, your father is the one person you’re gonna be able to count on when it matters.

& Craig: Look... we all have to chase our truest calling. Mine is to make this universe traversable and to leave this company a living organism that can thrive long after I’ve gone off on Manticore-IX...

& Wendy: I don’t want distance. I like getting messy. The power of the instant... That’s what excites me. Ice into steam... or back.

& Chuck: Okay, I don’t care if you spit or swallow. Just don’t keep me waiting.

& McKinnon: So, what do you want me to do now? Am I going to have to wear a wire?
    Chuck: You’re gonna be a hero.

& Axelrod: ...And if it checks out, you know, that’s the kind of giving I can get behind. I mean, this is how all charities should work.
    Taylor: You mean benefiting you more than anybody else?
    Axelrod: As much as. Not more.

& Axelrod: What the fuck is that? Is that Yosemite...

& ’Wags’: Want to hear a funny story?

& Bryan: Back the fuck off.
    Dake: That was the last song the band played on the Titanic, and it is a dreary tune.

& Dake: I offered you a lifeboat. You picked up a violin. Happy fiddling, Bryan.

& Bensinger: Sports franchises are how we knight people in this country. And you’re not royalty. You’re a robber baron.

& Axelrod: ’A wise man always listens to his lawyer.’
    Chuck: I keep my own counsel. Let’s keep going.
    Axelrod: Fucking right, we will. Fire away.

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Diddle Diddle Dumpling

Inside No. 9×5

& David: So odd. What’s the story behind it?

& Louise: I don’t want Sally falling behind.
    David: She’s seven! She should be reading Janet And Whatsit Have Two Mummies, or whatever they read these days.

& Louise: Well, if it’s brand-new, don’t put it on the table, it’s bad luck.

& Louise: «Found: One black man’s shoe.»
    David: I know, I wasn’t sure about that either. Cos it could sound like we’re saying the shoe belongs to a black man. It might do, we don’t know, but do you think we should change it?

& David: You know what I mean though, don’t you, Chris? I’m not going mad. A pair of shoes, they... they deserve to be together. Have to be. How they belong.

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& David: OK, well, I’m going to ask you a couple of questions. I’m sure... I’m sure you understand... What size was the shoe you claim you lost?
    Ted: Nine.
    David: Correct. Good start.

& Louise: That’s right, and autumn has a silent «n» at the end like column or hymn.
    Sally: Who?

& Sally: Well, I’m here and Annabel’s here, and Christian’s here and he says, «Diddle diddle dumpling, my son, John,» and Annabel says, «Went to bed with his trousers on.» And I say, «One shoe off and one shoe on,» then we all say, «Diddle diddle dumpling, my son, John.»

& David: It’s not about the shoe, is it?.. It was never about the shoe.

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Максим Фрай — Чуб земли (3/4)

<< Ранее

&  Люди часто врут по мелочам только потому, что говорить правду слишком хлопотно, и я – не исключение.

&  Во-первых, предвкушение удовольствия – важная составляющая всякого блаженства; ...

&  Ярость только тем и хороша, что сильнее страха; другое дело, что разум она туманит не хуже.

&  Со мной так часто бывает: встанешь невольно на точку зрения противника, а потом глядишь – никакого противника уже и в помине нет. С кем теперь сражаться – совершенно неясно. Хорошо хоть, что я не такой уж большой любитель сражаться, а то бы, конечно, жизнь была бы полна разочарований...

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&  Нет ничего слаще для пленника, чем мучения конвоира.

&  Я всегда говорю правду и только правду; другое дело, что правд у меня очень много – на все случаи жизни. Я сам свято верю в любую чушь, слетающую с моих губ, – верить-то верю, но не дольше пяти минут. Потом использованную по назначению правду следует забыть навсегда – за ненадобностью. Не сделать бывшую правду текущим враньем, а именно забыть. Это важное уточнение.

&  Когда подлинное действие подменяют имитацией... Ох, добром такое обычно не кончается!

&  Я, конечно, разгильдяй, каких мало: попробовал, оценил и благополучно забыл – вот мой метод.

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The Other Woman

Feud 1×2

& Girl-next-door: Can I please have your autograph? It’s for my grandmother. She’s loved you since she was a kid.

& Joan Crawford: Sometimes you need to hit it square in the jaw.

& Joan Blondell: Two weeks later, Joan signed with Warner’s.
    Joan Crawford: Thank you, Daddy.
    Jack Warner: Oh, come on, Joan. Let’s cut the «Daddy» shit, all right? Might have worked for that fat fuck over at MGM, but you’re working for me now.

& Joan Blondell: Joan was Jack’s message to Bette: You’re not the only bitch in the kennel. And Joan wasn’t too proud to take Bette’s scraps...

& Robert Aldrich: Aw, typical stuff, you know. Bette’s always fighting me for another close-up, Joan’s always fighting me to take it out. But they’re burning up the screen, Jack. You should have paired them years ago.
    Jack Warner: No, thanks. Two world wars were enough.

& Jack Warner: ...And also, I’m not gonna release the picture the way I said I would.... I’m gonna open it bigger. The way no one’s ever done before. A wide release. 400 screens. Ha ha!

& Jack Warner: ’Cause you’re right. They’re burning up the screen together. Bobby, their scenes are fucking electric. They are fucking electric! And let’s face it, after Psycho, horror’s the future, and we got it.

& Jack Warner: No, no, no, there’s got to be more than that, bubbie. You got to keep ’em at each other’s throats. You have to. I’ll make sure their names are in the papers. That’s not a problem. But if you do this, you’ll be able to write your own ticket in this town. L’chaim, bubbeleh.

& Joan Crawford: ...I will sue her if she continues to make comments that are injurious to my ability to earn a living.
    Bette Davis: Ha! Earn a living? Every time you belch, Pepsi gives you ten grand.
    Joan Crawford: How dare you mention Pepsi! Unlike you, it’s good and pure.
    Bette Davis: It’s pure, all right. Pure vodka!

& Olivia de Havilland: But imagine a studio today tried to pit Miss Jane Fonda against Miss Dyan Cannon. I mean, the girls would revolt!
    Joan Blondell: Oh, horseshit. Nothing’s changed. No matter how liberated, women’ll do what they always do when they’re cornered: eat their own and pick their teeth with the bones.

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& Joan Crawford: Would you like me to read it to you?
Robert Aldrich: «The woman is crazy. I always suspected she had a false front, and now I know for sure. And they’re 34 double Ds.»
Joan Crawford: Are you going to let her get away with this?

& Joan Crawford: Are you writing it down? Good. Miss Davis looks old enough to be my mother. One look at her face and you’d think she hasn’t had a happy day, or night, in her life... Yes, you can quote me. I’m counting on it.

& Jack Warner: This is fantastic footage, Bob. It’s fantastic. I-I mean, you can literally feel the hate steaming off the screen. It’s... It...

& Robert Aldrich: The atmosphere on set’s frosty enough as it is. You sure you want me to stir that pot?
    Jack Warner: What are you, red all of a sudden? You got something against capitalism? Huh?

& Robert Aldrich: What we’re looking at right there is a raw display of the free market. That’s vigorous competition. That’s the American way. The more that they despise each other, the more that each one tries to crush the other one, the better they get!
    Jack Warner: But they’re already good.
    Robert Aldrich: No, they’re great. Great, but they can be greater still.

& Robert Aldrich: Do you think that Wellington was such a hot general? He wasn’t. He was a piker, until he had to go up against Napoleon. And why? Because he hated Napoleon’s guts. He hated him. It was his hatred that made him great.
    Jack Warner: Jack, that was war.
    Robert Aldrich: So is this.

& Bette Davis: All right, let's look at the scene... "I've Written a Letter to Daddy," frankly, scares the shit out of me. I'm not a singer, never was.

& Victor Buono: Oh, I’m not craft service. I’m your leading man on this picture.
    Bette Davis: Beg your pardon?
    Victor Buono: I’m Victor Buono. I’ll be playing your love interest.
    Bette Davis: I was expecting someone...
    Victor Buono: Thinner?.. Less... homosexual? Mm. Mm.

& Bette Davis: You’re a fine director, Bob. A really fine director. You should be very proud. And you, you started from nothing. Look at all you’ve accomplished...
    Robert Aldrich: My grandfather was a U.S. Senator. My cousin is Nelson Rockefeller.
    Bette Davis: And you overcame all that.

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Σ Just love the writing. And performing of course.

Fidelity

Elementary 5×16

& Gephardt: I wonder, do you really think you’re here to question me?
    Holmes: Force of habit, interrogating murderers. You know what they say. The best defense is a good offense.

& Watson: Are you okay?
    Holmes: Uh, yeah. I’m, uh, I’m famished and I’m parched, and I need the facilities in the worst way.
    Watson: But you got all your fingernails.

& Watson: So now what?
    Holmes: An American spy has a murderous obsession with a three-year-old vehicular homicide which took place in London; so after I use the toilet, I’m going to ignore his instructions, and I’m gonna find out why.

& Watson: ...he is a Middle Eastern affairs analyst and has strong feelings about Iran.
    Katty: Good ones or bad?
    Watson: We were able to track down an intelligence report he wrote. He called their government— and I’m quoting here— «The most evil regime in existence.»
    Katty: Bad, then.

& Watson: So... in other words, you don’t have anything.
    Holmes: No. I have a theory.

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& Holmes: ...So what remains? The players. The magistrate, the defendant, the defense attorney, the prosecutor. The time they spent together in a London court...

& Kitty: All right, I’m convinced. I’m also utterly flummoxed. How the hell did a London barrister know about a fake assassination attempt in Venezuela three years before it happened?

& Holmes: Gosh, you’re all the same.
    Watson: What, women?
    Holmes: Protégés.

& Garber: I’m guessing you played soccer?
    Kitty: I think you mean «football.»
    Garber: Yeah, I do.
    Holmes: Yes, because Miss Winter’s foot devastated your testicles. Very funny, yes. Now, we could either continue with the double entendres, or you could tell us your role in....

& Holmes: Now we know why a Middle Eastern affairs specialist got up to so much trouble in Venezuela. He wants the U.S. to go to war with Iran.
Ω WTF? Homeland is not enough? Et tu, Brute?

& Holmes: Scheduled an exorcism? Is it for you or me?

& Katty: See, that’s the thing, isn’t it? We’re not friends; we never were... We’re family.

& Holmes: Would you believe I’ve-I’ve never been a godparent before?

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Σ Someone's pushing Iranian deal like hell, eh?

Максим Фрай — Чуб земли (2/4)

<< Начало

  “Начать, наверное, следует с того, что жизнь моя в ту пору была прекрасна настолько, что даже мои собственные зеркальные отражения от зависти бледнели. ...

&  Представьте себе мечтательного, но унылого молодого лентяя, который родился и вырос в перенаселенном мире, где среднестатистическая человеческая жизнь тяжела, зато коротка и почти непременно посвящена всяким скучным глупостям, из которых каждодневный труд ради крова и пищи – это еще самое осмысленное (хоть и изматывающее) деяние.

&  Безделье – мать всех тревог.

&  Как только окончательно утратишь бесценную способность чувствовать себя идиотом, можешь считать, что жизнь практически закончена.

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&  Мне это жизненно необходимо – хотя бы пару часов в день проводить в полном одиночестве. Когда на меня никто не смотрит, можно опустить вечно вздернутый подбородок, расслабить плечи и мышцы лица, погрузиться в молчание, перестать наконец бесконечно придумывать удачные ответы на вопросы, которые, скорее всего, так никогда и не будут мне заданы, но теоретически – вполне могут прозвучать, пока рядом есть люди, все равно кто.

&  – [я] Узнал, что человек может бояться чего угодно, но действовать так, будто не ведает страха. С тех пор жить стало труднее и одновременно – гораздо проще...

&  Доверять судьбе – высокое искусство; чем больше власти и ответственности у человека, тем меньше у него шансов этим искусством овладеть: все сам, все под контролем...

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Paradise: Love

& Guide: The next word you have to learn is «hakuna matata.» «Hakuna matata» means «no problem». Please say, «hakuna matata.»

& Teresa: They are nice. I met two, but the problem is, they look alike. I thought they were the same person. They look the same.

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& Teresa: No, but looking into your eyes... It’s dumb, but... It means being seen as a person and not just as a body. Looking past your saggy breasts, wrinkles, fat ass... That they see all of you, that they look with their heart.

>> Paradise: Faith

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alt.truth

Homeland 6×8

& Saul: No, no problem. She’s the next President of the United States. She’s a little busy at the moment.

& Max: The Black Dog.
    Saul: Black what?
    Max: Dog. Depression.

& Carrie: So what else is new?
    Saul: Well, Mossad wasn’t acting alone.

& Carrie: The deal with Iran has been formally adopted. It’s settled policy. Any attempt to undermine it’s—
    Saul: Treason.

& Javadi: You know it’s— it’s all that men like Saul and I know, our careers. The institutions we serve. It’s a very painful moment when we realize we no longer make the weather.

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& Javadi: How do I address her?
    Carrie: Madam President-elect.
    Javadi: Madam President-elect.

& Javadi: Saul has many qualities, the most admirable of which is his optimism. Some might call it a stubborn refusal to see what’s exactly in front of his eyes.

& Javadi: The only charade was the deal itself. It never had a chance. I’m sorry to disappoint, Madam, but if I were you, I’d watch your back because my country is not your friend.

& Saul: No, I’m not all right. Fucking miles away from all right.

& Narrator: This is the truth, okay? This is the...

& Astrid: Say something nice now, Peter. This is the time.

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Максим Фрай — Чуб земли

Хроники Ехо — 1.1

&  ...Триша не слишком любит правду, по крайней мере в мелочах.

&  Тот, кому ни разу не доводилось стать чем то иным, вообще ничего не знает ни о жизни, ни о себе, а невежество, как известно, хуже греха...

&  Но иногда в «Кофейную гущу» заглядывают клиенты, готовые заплатить за угощение и кров увлекательными историями. Таких Триша любит больше всего. «Если бы не они, мне пришлось бы довольствоваться одной жизнью – собственной, – думает она. – А это очень, очень мало». Выслушивая очередную историю, Триша словно бы проживает чужую жизнь – торопливо, небрежно, не особо вдаваясь в детали, не слишком утруждая свое сердце скорбью, улыбается уголками губ там, где следовало бы хохотать от души, – но именно это ей нравится больше всего. Все равно что сливки с чужого молока снять, слизнуть и побежать дальше по своим делам. Типичный кошачий подход к делу...

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&  – Вещество, из которого сотканы сны, отлично подходит для строительства новых обитаемых реальностей: пластичное чрезвычайно и куда более прочное, чем может показаться. Люди, собственно, для того только и нужны, чтобы видеть сны... А зачем бы еще?

&  – Забавно, люди-то думают, что все самое важное происходит наяву. Стараются играть всерьез, жить по правилам, добиваются чего-то, суетятся, жизнь кладут, убивают друг друга, доказывая свою правоту, – смешные! С другой стороны, это и хорошо: как только человек решает, что какое-то дело для него «самое важное», он тут же его запарывает, тем или иным способом. Поэтому – да, пусть думают, будто живут ради всей этой чепухи, которая «наяву»...

&  – Все бессмысленные, в том числе и мы с вами.

&  – Уж тебе-то должно быть известно: самые лучшие люди – именно выдуманные. Не всякая выдумка, конечно, обрастает плотью, но когда это происходит... О, именно ради этого и стоит жить бесконечно! Такими чудесами не пресытишься.

&  Имейте в виду: всякая история хочет стать рассказанной, как всякое семечко хочет прорасти. Когда человек носит в себе слишком много нерассказанных историй, он начинает сутулиться, голова его ноет по утрам, а сны начинают повторяться – одно и то же, из ночи в ночь, сущий кошмар!

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Bury Me Here

The Walking Dead 7×13

& Morgan: All right. Check your feet, ’cause if your feet ain’t right —
    Henry: Nothing’s right.

& Morgan: You shouldn’t go alone.

& Morgan: You got away from everyone. Is it what you wanted? Was it just too late to get away?

& Ezekiel: You may approach, Nabila.
    Nabila: I’m fine where I am.
    Ezekiel: Shiva likes you.
    Nabila: That’s what I’m afraid of.

& Benjamin: Thank you for this. I’m still thinking about it. «To injure an opponent is to injure oneself...» Get injured no matter what.

---

& Richard: I wasn’t too young — perfect age, perfect time. I had myself the perfect family and the perfect life. I didn’t ask for much, and I got more than I deserved.

& Richard: I know you’re a good man. The day’s coming where you can’t be that good.

& Gavin: Well, you got a choice — Same one that’s been there since the beginning, I guess. You can give up your guns, or you can try to use them. What’s it gonna be?

& Jared: Right now as in... «right now»?

& Gavin: Right now, you have to listen. For once, be present and listen. You will make your deliveries on time, every time, and they will be complete. It’s A’s or F’s, no I’s.

& Richard: You have... to... kill. Or else you might as well just kill yourself.

& Morgan: Do you really want to know what happened in Alexandria?

& Morgan: You wanted to know. Now you do.

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Who's the Cool Girl Josh Is Dating?

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend 2×7

& Scott: What are you reading? You’re so into it. Is it one of your sexy vampire books?
    Paula: No. It is a fascinating Supreme Court case from 1880 called Yick Wo v. Hopkins, where the city of San Francisco had said that it was illegal to operate laundries in a wooden building. But the reason they did that was because two-thirds of the wooden laundries were operated by Chinese owners. So do you know what that court did?.. They used the Equal Protection Clause from the 14th Amendment...
    Scott: Ah.
    Paula: ...to find that law discriminatory! Boom. Ha!
    Scott: Cool!
    Paula: Right?

& Ichabod: You got it, Anna. One semi-petite latte with organic coconut milk. And you, sir?
    Josh: Just coffee for me, dude.
    Ichabod: What kind? It’s all up there.
    Josh: Oh. Okay. Ooh, you’ve got single-origin, blended, micro-lot, Indian filter, French press, clover, Turkish, Kyoto drip, Neapolitan flip, V60, Moka pot, drip pot, automatic drop... Um... single-origin, I guess.
    Ichabod: Which single-origin? We have 17 different kinds.

---

& Scott: I’m really nervous.
    Hank: Yeah, I get that. Do what I do when I get nervous. Take off your underwear.
    Scott: You mean, picture people in their underwear?
    Hank: What? Why would that make me more comfortable? That’s just awkward. Nah, I walk around with my bits all wango tango. It’s very relaxing.

& Paula: I’m telling you, I have not been this obsessed about something since the first season of The Wire... You don’t watch The Wire?!
    Sunil: No.
    Paula: What?! Oh, I am so jealous of you that you get to watch it for the first time. Oh, ho! Rebecca and I binged that in, like, two days. We loved it. She is so Avon. I am so Stringer Bell. It is...

& Rebecca: Oh, she’s gonna shoot up the drugs just like in Breaking Bad. Have you seen Breaking Bad?
    Valencia: Eh.
    Rebecca: How do you live your life?

& Rebecca: I guess you were right. We shouldn’t have gone down the rabbit hole. The only thing down there is... regret made of rabbit poop.

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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

& Chief Police: Another child?
    Adelina: Another child.
    Chief Police: That’s four. How many more?
    Adelina: I’ll take as many as God will give me! Heart, ungrateful heart...

& Adelina: The cough medicine, I forgot.
    Son: I won’t take it!
    Adelina: Yes, you will. We aren’t aristocrats. The medicine was bought so it must be used. ... You’re gonna take this or my name isn’t Adelina Sbaratti! ... We can’t throw money out the window like that. For a tantrum! 400 lire!

---

& Mara: Listen, if Umberto goes back to the seminary, I’ll go a week without. You know what.
    Grandmother: Yes, that’s very generous of you.
    Mara: A whole week. And when I say something, I mean it. I’ll buy some candles and keep them lit day and night.
    Grandmother: You’ll go straight to heaven, ma’am.
    Mara: It’s a sacrifice for me.
    Grandmother: I can imagine.
    Mara: But I’ll do it gladly. I’ll lose about... 200,000 lire.
    Grandmother: Goodness, you earn that much?
    Mara: I could make more, but if I don’t like a man, I don’t even let him in.
    Grandmother: You’re right.

& Mara: Your grandmother told the truth. The whole truth. Why do you want to make me feel guilty? I never have before.

& Mara: The seminary is a secure life. Bread, a bed and you’re outside of this wicked world... If I had another life, I’d be a nun.

& Grandmother: Tell him I wasn’t lying. Nobody can be trusted in this world. Except for parents and grandparents.

& Augusto: You could have made a vow for next month! You knew I was here! Ever since yesterday, «Yes, no, yes, no.» It’s bad for a man’s health! All this yes, no, yes, no!

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The Spirit of St. Lewis

The Last Man on Earth 3×11

& Erica: It’s creepy. It’s like she can see us through the mirror.

& Phil: Wow, she’s really nailing the worst-thing-you-can-hear thing.

& Phil: Oh, come on. We got an airplane. If we didn’t have tiny bottles, we’d be gigantic «bott-holes.» Well, that one worked well.

& Phil: Lewis, wait. W-Wait. Look. Melissa’s sick, Todd’s a mess, and, like, Carol and Erica... they’re freaking out now about C-sections.
    Lewis: And how does me flying make any of that better?

& Phil: Yeah, it’s a frickin’ long shot, but we’re fresh out of short shots, bud.

& Phil: Look, this is gonna be scary whenever you decide to do it, but you got to take that leap one day. Why not today?

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& Phil: I’d like to make a toast... Raise your glasses, please... Galileo... Sir Isaac Newton, Thomas Alva Edison, Doug Henning, Pelé, Peter Frampton, Jonas Salk, Lena Dunham, Shel Silverstein, Kenny Loggins, George Washington Carver, Lewis.

& Carol: This is so exciting. Talk about front page news... «Lewis Gets It Wright, Brother!»

& Phil: Nelson Mandela. Jim Henson. Hamilton. The guy who did Hamilton.
    Lewis: I got it, Tandy.
    Phil: I’m not finished... Lewis.

& Phil: Was... not... ready.

& Carol: Well, he made the front page two days in a row.

& Phil: Ashes to ashes, bolts to bolts... Say it with me.

& Phil: The rainbow! A symbol near and dear to Lewis’ heart. Let the healing begin!

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The Huntsman: Winter's War

Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) <<

& King: A mere pawn?
    Ravenna: A humble pawn can bring down kingdoms.

& Ravenna: And you thought this was just a game...

& Queen Freya: Love is a lie. It is a trick played by the cruel on the foolish and the weak. Cast it from your mind. Never let it render you frail of mind or of will, because in my kingdom, there is but one law. Do not love. It’s a sin, and I’ll not forgive it. Now, let’s hear no more of family and love. Those illusions are beneath you. I have freed you from them...

& Narrator: Once upon a time a man and woman fell in love. But such things cannot last. For the heart is a treacherous thing. And love... Love is nothing more than a fairy tale.

& Eric: Perhaps you’d have better luck with your own kind...
    Nion: Have you ever seen a female dwarf?
    Eric: No, I can’t say I have.
    Nion: Horrifying.
    Gryff: Horrifying’s the best of them. Repulsive things. Ugly as the devil’s bullocks. All knuckles and hair.
    Nion: Foul tempered and stunted.
    Gryff: Unnatural, misshapen, gold grubbing, foul-mouthed piles of sideways donkey ass.
    Eric: So, assuming this is a commonly held opinion, how exactly are new dwarves made?
    Nion: Uh, generally by accident.
    Gryff: Too little light. Too much of this.
    Nion: Yeah...

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& Sara: Dead? Is that what you told everyone? You poor, heartbroken widower. That story must’ve wet the eyes of many a young lass. Maybe more than their eyes.

& Eric: So you’re coming with me, then?
    Sara: No, you’re coming with me.
    Eric: Yeah, whatever you need to tell yourself, that’s fine.

& Sara: We blind ourselves to the truth because we’re weak, because we hope. But there’s no hope for love. Love ends in betrayal. Aye and always.

& Mrs. Bromwyn: Have you lost your mind? She betrayed us!
    Gryff: Eric, she is not Cupid. I doubt that an arrow to the chest is an expression of her love.

& Gryff: Head injury. Number eight.

& Gryff: So what’s the plan?... You have got a plan?
    Eric: Aye.
    Mrs. Bromwyn: Is it any good?
    Eric: No. But it’s simple.

& Ravenna: You see, Huntsman, love doesn’t save your life. I should know. I’ve been dead before.

& Ravenna: Do you still believe that love conquers all?
    Eric: Maybe not all. Just you.

& Narrator: ...And so, some fairy tales do come true. But none ever truly end.

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Tamam Shud

Colony 2×9

& Gracie: All they do is sleep.
    Katie: They’re boys, my love. They hibernate like bears.

& Det Burke: Did you know I was Internal Affairs before the Arrival? ... The IA was the fence that kept the cowboys on the range. And... you can never really blame a cowboy for hating a fence.

& Det Burke: You see, we’re not here to solve cases. We’re here to solve problems. Nobody above us gives a shit about who did what and why. They just want us all to stay on the range.

---

& Det Burke: You’re just throwing shit against the wall and hoping it sticks.

& Katie: Keep moving.

& Noa: I’m here... because the real war is about to begin...

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Feud 1×1

Pilot

& Olivia de Havillend: There was never a rivalry like theirs. For nearly half a century, they hated each other, and we loved them for it.

& Olivia de Havillend: You know, they only made one film together. And how that happened and what happened afterwards, well... well, that was a story and a feud of biblical proportions.

& Olivia de Havillend: Feuds are never about hate. Feuds are about pain. They’re about pain.

& Joan Crawford: I’ve got great tits, too, but I don’t throw them in everyone’s face.

& Joan Crawford: There can only be room for one it girl. Is that right?
    Hedda Hopper: Well, men built the pedestal, darling, not me. There’s only room for one goddess at a time.
    Joan Crawford: Well, men may have built the pedestal, but it’s the women who keep chipping away at it until it comes tumbling down.

& Joan Crawford: This, my friend, is the Academy Award for Best Actress I won in 1945 for Mildred Pierce. And I would like another one.

& Joan Crawford: I can’t play Elvis’ grandmother. I won’t do it.

& Joan Crawford: Everything written for women seem to fall into just three categories: ingénues, mothers, or gorgons.

& Mamacita: She’s expecting you.... She’s expecting you on the patio.

& Joan Crawford: Now, you listen to me on this picture. I’ll get you the perfect costar.
    Robert Aldrich: Who do you have in mind?

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& Joan Crawford: If something’s going to happen, we have to make it happen. No one’s looking to cast women our age. But together... they wouldn’t dare say no.

& Bette Davis: So what the hell happened to her anyway, Baby Jane?

& Joan Crawford: Oh, I-I’m offering you the title role.
    Bette Davis: The lead?
    Joan Crawford: ... You can call it that.

& Robert Aldrich: Bette, listen, here’s the deal. Crawford’s name on the marquee gets us distribution. I need her to get the picture made, but I need you to make the picture great.
    Bette Davis: Keep talking.

& Robert Aldrich: Bette, I promise you this is gonna be the greatest horror movie ever made. And Baby Jane’s the greatest part you’ll play since Margo Channing.

& Jack Warner: Bobby, I was so upset about that, that I got an ulcer and hemorrhoids from it. I still have them. I’ll show them to you...

& Reporter: Who do you think’s gonna grab the chair on the left?.. Whoever gets there first gets top billing right underneath the caption in tomorrow’s paper.

& Joan Crawford: I admire her talent and her craft. And I will have her respect. Even if I have to kill both of us to get it.

& Mamacita: It’s small.
    Joan Crawford: And dirty... Okay, Mamacita, let’s go to work.

& Bette Davis: Oh, one last thing... Lose the shoulder pads.
    Joan Crawford: I beg your pardon?
    Bette Davis: And cut back on the lipstick. You’re playing a recluse who hasn’t seen the sun for 20 years, for Christ’s sake.

& Hedda Hopper: «Stars of the night sky tend to keep to fixed orbits and never interfere with one another. Things sometimes operate that way in Hollywood, too. Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, stars of equal magnitude who ruled in motion pictures during the fabulous ’30s, never got to know one another. Now, in the Indian summer of their careers, they’re about to...»

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Σ Magnificient!

Empty Orchestra

Inside No. 9×4

& Connie: Cheers! And Fran put that up for you.
    Roger: «Cunt-grot-alaions.»
    Fran: Well, that’s your bloody fault! It’s meant to say Congratulations.
    Roger: Yeah, I worked that out.

& Duane: It’s party time, so that means it’s time for Duane’s Famous Pills Roulette! Inside, there’s one ecstasy, one Viagra, one ketamine, one paracetamol, one laxative and an orange Tic-Tac.

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& Roger: Mary’s leaving me, everyone. I thought I was a happily married man till four o’clock on Friday. Turns out I’m not.

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Карин Слотер — Ярость

Уилл Трент — 1

  “Детектив Майкл Ормевуд ехал по Де-Кальб-авеню в направлении к Грейди Хоумс, краем уха прислушиваясь к передававшемуся по радио репортажу о футбольном матче. ...

&  Ничто не стоило того, чтобы отдавать за это жизнь.

&  Самое главное, чему он научился в тюрьме, — нельзя прикасаться к чужой собственности, если не хочешь умереть за это.

&  — Следуй за этим человеком и выясни, что он делает и куда ходит. У всего, что происходит, есть свои причины. У всего.

&  Представь себе, что нет ничего удивительного, и никогда не будешь удивлен.

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&  Типичный ход копов: пугать как можно раньше и как можно чаще.

&  Не следует просить копа уйти, если не хотите, чтобы он до конца своих дней повис у вас на шее.

&  Быть изнасилованной — это еще не самое страшное. Остаться в живых после этого — вот что убивает.

&  Есть тюрьмы, из которых нельзя выбраться никогда.

  ... Даже если это чихуахуа.”

>> Инстинкт убийцы (Уилл Трент — 2)

Limelight

& Doctor: How long have you known this girl?
    Calvero: About five minutes.
    Doctor: She’ll need looking after for a couple of days.

& Thereza: Why didn’t you let me die?
    Calvero: What’s your hurry?

& Calvero: Are you in pain?
    Thereza: [No.]
    Calvero: That’s all that matters. The rest is fantasy.

& Calvero: Billions of years it’s taken to evolve human consciousness and you want to wipe it out. Wipe out the miracle of all existence. More important than anything in the whole universe! What can the stars do? Nothing... but sit on their axis! And the sun, shooting flames 280,000 miles high... So what? Wasting all its natural resources. Can the sun think? Is it conscious? No, but you are!

& Maid: Your wife won’t eat.
    Calvero: Well, that’s a blessing to a poor married man.

& Calvero: It isn’t the ideal spot for convalescing, but you’re welcome to it, if you can put up with being Mrs. Calvero. In name only!
    Thereza: It won’t inconvenience you?
    Calvero: Not at all. I’ve had five wives already. One more or less makes no difference.

& Calvero: I’ve arrived at the age where platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.

& Thereza: All life aimless without meaning.
    Calvero: What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning. Desire is the theme of all life! Thereza: It makes a rose want to be a rose, and want to grow like that... And a rock want to contain itself and remain like that...

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& Thereza: I’m sorry.
    Calvero: You should be. A young girl like you wanting to throw your life away. When you’re my age, you’ll want to hang on to it.
    Thereza: Why?
    Calvero: Well, at this stage of the game life gets to be a habit.
    Thereza: A hopeless one.
    Calvero: Then live without hope. Live for the moment. There are still, there are still... There are still wonderful moments.

& Thereza: I’m tired of fighting.
    Calvero: Because you’re fighting yourself. You won’t give yourself a chance. But the fight for happiness is beautiful.

& Thereza: What a sad business, being funny.
    Calvero: Very sad if they won’t laugh. But it’s a thrill when they do.

& Calvero: I want to forget the public.
    Thereza: Never. You love them too much.
    Calvero: Maybe I love them, but I don’t admire them.
    Thereza: I think you do.
    Calvero: As individuals, yes. There’s greatness in everyone. But as a crowd, they’re like a monster without a head that never knows which way it’s going to turn. It can be prodded in any direction.

& Calvero: That’s the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

& Calvero: Yes, life can be wonderful if you’re not afraid of it. All it needs is courage, imagination and a little dough.

& Thereza: What is there to fight for?
    Calvero: Everything! Life itself! Isn’t that enough? To be lived, suffered, enjoyed!

& Calvero: Time is the great author. It always writes the perfect ending.

& Thereza: Calvero, come back. You’ve got to come back!
    Calvero: I can’t. I must go forward. That’s progress.

& Calvero: I don’t like it. Everyone’s so kind to me. Makes me feel isolated. Even you make me feel isolated.

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The Seventh Man

The Expanse 2×7

& UN Secretary: Why didn’t you ever run for office?
    Chrisjen: I like getting shit done. And I like to keep my head attached to my neck.

& Anderson Dawes: As much as I fear war between Earth and Mars, I fear the peace more. For that is when they will turn their sights back on all of us.

& Anderson Dawes: The Inners are not like us. Earthers cannot look upon a thing but wonder who it belongs to, huh? To make it their possession. «Possession is nine-tenths of the law,» they say. But that is not the way of the Belt. We say, «The more you share the more your bowl will be plentiful. And those that will not share...»

& Anderson Dawes: The truth is... It’s never what you expect it to be, eh?

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& Anderson Dawes: Good and bad, don’t get distracted by that. It will just confuse you. Good men do bad things... And bad men do things believing it’s for the good of all mankind.

& Anderson Dawes: You remind me of someone... Just missing the hat, that’s all.

& Fred Johnson: And then we’ll have it and Cortazar will help us understand it.
    Holden: And the nightmare starts over.

& Anderson Dawes: Do you know how old you are?
    Diogo: Nineteen, I think. Earther years.
    Anderson Dawes: Even our sense of time comes from them. The time it takes the Earth to spin on its axis... The Earth to go once around the Sun. On Jupiter, you’d be celebrating your first birthday.

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Optimal Play

Billions 2×3

& Axelrod: Well, that’s what Chuck Rhoades will do to a man... rob him of his life’s work.
    Boyd: He’s a Stalinist... convict first, then have the trial.

& Axelrod: You know one of the things that I really like about the NFL?
    Dollar Bill: The cheerleaders?
    Axelrod: Uh, yeah, yeah, when I was 12, yeah. But I’m all grown now, so I was gonna say the contracts.

& Axelrod: How’d you clock that I knew?
    Taylor: The way you listened to my answers, the cant of your head. You weren’t receiving new information.

& Lara: Lawrence Boyd isn’t exactly cannon fodder.
    Axelrod: Babe... everyone in the world, apart from you, me, and the kids is cannon fodder.

& Dr. Gus: One... this isn’t therapy. Two... I’ve had more fucking therapy than you have. And three... every time you walk away from doing what makes you feel great, even though it also makes you feel sad... something inside of you dies.
    Taylor: ... That’s true.
    Dr. Gus: Instead... when you feel emotionally messy, take yourself to where the boundaries are clean. It’s effective. It’s why we’ve developed sex workers.
    Taylor: ... Okay. Thanks for your time.

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& Chuck: «Dear Monty, never give in, never give in, never, never, never, in nothing, great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. And never yield to force. And never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.»
    From the day I passed the bar, I have said those words to myself the first morning of every trial.
    Harry: You can still say the words...

& Axelrod: So, I see you went to go work for the downtrodden, after all.
    Wendy: I work for myself.
    Axelrod: I bet that’s what his masseuse and manicurist tell themselves, too.

& Boyd: So, the issue for me...
    Hall: Never in threes about any of this... till we’ve all known each other a long time.
    Axelrod: This is why he’s the best.

& Taylor: ...and it filled me with disdain, almost hate.
    Axelrod: Hate is nature’s most perfect energy source. It’s endlessly renewable.

& Todd: Don’t let me get under your skin.
    Taylor: You have no clue what is under my skin, and I am certain that a million dollars in either direction, to Mr. Axlerod or you, is entirely insignificant. And in the continuum, 10,000 years of human history, this card game and the Alpha Cup... what does it mean? By 2090, we’ll all be gone, every last one of us, unless we’ve reached the singularity, and at that point, will money matter?
    Todd: Yeah, I’ve seen «Cosmos,» too.

& Chuck: Lawrence Boyd can be friend to no man. He’s a venal beast of the first order. He needs to demonstrate that he is the alpha of the pack, needs to dominate you in his own mind by heaving his seed into your bride...

& Axelrod: You know, when they like my number enough, they’ll like me just fine.

& Axelrod: You know what? Find all the other signed first editions for sale in the U.S. and in England... fuck it... everywhere. And buy them all, every single last one of them.
    Stephanie: That’ll be expensive...
    Axelrod: Well, then it’s a good thing I’m a rich fucking man.

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Imminent Risk

Homeland 6×7

& Quinn: Don’t let me forget.

& Elizabeth: In fact, Syria is now the 14th country in the Islamic world where U.S. forces have invaded, occupied, or bombed, and that’s just since 1980.

& Deputy in Counter-Intelligence Rachel Crofts: Well, anyway you look at it, the optics aren’t good.
    Saul: I’m too old to worry about optics. If I did, I’d never look in the mirror.

& Crofts: The Director has been on the receiving end of some very heated phone calls.... I know this is a pain in the ass, but the Director is hoping you’ll cooperate so he can get Mossad off his back.

& Nasir: Some say time spent in enemy hands... is the same as becoming the enemy himself.

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& Amir: Come, I’ll take you to him.
    Saul: ....
    Amir: Our friend said I should send greetings from Sergeant Brody.
    Saul: Let’s go.

& Saul: Who’s this?
    Javadi: Your friend the banker, Farhad Nafisi. He’s a little hard to recognize, I admit.
    Saul: Wild guess... He’s working for Mossad.
    Javadi: For the past eight years. Including the little show they put on for you in Abu Dhabi.

& Saul: I can put you in front of someone who can make it happen. The President-elect.
    Javadi: Go on.
    Saul: And she can hear it from your own lips... Iran isn’t cheating on the deal. There’s no parallel program in North Korea.
    Javadi: Nothing would give me greater pleasure. Believe me.

& Saul: Majid... for Chrissake.
    Javadi: What? No loose ends. You taught me that, Saul.

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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find

& Tina: At least tell me you took care of the No-Maj.
    Newt: The what?
    Tina: The No-Maj. No-Magic. The non-wizard!
    Newt: Oh. Sorry, we call them Muggles.

& Tina: And you were just in Equatorial Guinea?
    Newt: And I’ve just completed a year in the fields. I’m writing a book about magical creatures.
    Tina: Like an extermination guide?
    Newt: No, a guide to help people understand why we should be protecting these creatures instead of killing them.

& Graves: So find the child. Find the child and we’ll all be free.

& Kowalski: Could you stop reading my mind for a second?

& Kowalski: I don’t think I’m dreaming.
    Newt: What gave it away?
    Kowalski: I ain’t got the brains to make this up.

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& Kowalski: Before they get hurt?
    Newt: Yes, Mr. Kowalski. So they’re currently in alien terrain surrounded by millions of the most vicious creatures on the planet... Humans.

& Newt: You know, New York is considerably more interesting than I’d expected...

& Kowalski: Tell me, has anyone ever believed you when you told them not to worry?
    Newt: Well, my philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice.

& Graves: Now, what makes Albus Dumbledore so fond of you?
    Newt: I really couldn’t say.

& Mary Lou: Are all No-Majs like you?
    Kowalski: No. I’m the only one like me.

& Mary Lou: I ain’t never gonna find anyone like you.
    Kowalski: There’s loads like me.
    Mary Lou: No. No. There’s only one like you.

& Tina: Well, you know... If you hadn’t said all those nice things to Madam Picquery about me, I wouldn’t be back on the investigative team now.
    Newt: I can’t think of anyone that I’d rather have investigating me.
    Tina: Try not to need investigating for a bit.

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>> Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

The Escape Hatch Identification

The Big Bang Theory 10×18

& Amy: No, Sheldon. We are not getting a life-size Spider-Man statue.

& Sheldon: Well, that’s been my room since before I met Leonard, and now someone else is going to be living in it. And that someone else is not me. And you know how I feel about people who aren’t me.

& Beverly: Mm. Well, what do you think the loss of your room represents?
    Sheldon: Beverly, you know I hold you in high esteem. Can we skip the part where you pretend not to know the answer, and get to the part where you tell me the answer?

& Beverly: ...you’re forced to confront the terrifying reality of being trapped in a relationship with Amy forever.
    Sheldon: I hadn’t thought about that...
    Amy: And don’t start thinking about it now!

& Beverly: Interesting... They’ve found a need to take yet another roommate. Seems they’re avoiding some harsh realities themselves.
    Sheldon: I had no idea all our relationships were such a disaster!

& Sheldon: Anyway, I’m sorry for everything. Oh, and FYI— if you cry while they’re fighting, they’ll take you to McDonald’s.

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& Penny: Yeah, this is a special circumstance.
    Beverly: Sheldon mentioned you tried to get your brother to live with you, as well.
    Penny: Yeah, well, a circumstance can happen twice and still be special.

& Raj: I just wanted to go someplace where I wasn’t causing problems.
    Howard: I’ll say it again. India.

& Sheldon: I don’t care for unconscious thoughts. My brain and I are best friends. It should tell me everything.

& Amy: I just think you’re the kind of person who likes a contingency plan.
    Sheldon: That is true. Did you know I figured out in which order I would eat all my friends in the event of an apocalypse?

& Amy: You need to stop hanging out with your brain so much. It’s not a good influence.

& Sheldon: Penny would be the entree... Then Leonard’s basically a cheese course. And because I love you, you’re dessert.
    Amy: I want to say «aw,» but I’m gonna say «ew.»

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Wrong Side of the Road

Elementary 5×15

& Holmes: Are you familiar with the Freedom Arms .22 caliber belt buckle handgun? It’s one of the, uh, tiniest pistols on the market.

& Det. Bell: Wait, are you saying he put the gun...

& Holmes: Sherlock T. Ainsworth. Husband, father and devoted chimney sweep.

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& Holmes: The killer is almost certainly not Kotite. He’s a paraplegic. Well, he is now.
    Kitty: If you have to spend time in a British prison, it’s best not to be an American. Even better to not be an American who’s killed a Brit.

& Kitty: ...she was lying.
    Watson: Obviously. She barely looked either of us in the eye the whole time.
    Kitty: She had her arms crossed, she had her torso faced towards the door.
    Watson: Yeah, she wanted us out of there.

& Watson: «Aunty Watson.» I like it.
    Kitty: You know Sherlock used to call me that? Of course, I was «the Anti-Watson.»

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Passengers

& Instructor: Good morning, James. How are you feeling?

& Instructor: The Avalon is on final approach. For the next four months, you’ll enjoy space travel at its most luxurious. Food. Fun. Friends.

& The Starship Avalon: Message sent.
    Jim Preston: Outstanding.
    The Starship Avalon: Message will arrive in 19 years.
    Jim Preston: Wait, what?
    The Starship Avalon: Earliest reply in 55 years.
    Jim Preston: Fifty-five years?
    The Starship Avalon: We apologize for the delay. That will be $6,012.

& Jim Preston: I’m screwed, Arthur. Completely and ridiculously screwed.
    Arthur: Come on, now. Every cloud has a silver lining.

& Arthur: We all die. Even androids end up on the scrap heap.

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& Jim Preston: I’m your only customer. Why are you always polishing a glass?
    Arthur: Trick of the trade. Makes people nervous when a bartender just stands there.

& Arthur: Point is, you can’t get so hung up on where you’d rather be that you forget how to make the most of where you are.
    Jim Preston: What are you telling me?
    Arthur: Take a break from worrying about what you can’t control. Live a little.

& Jim Preston: Back on Earth, when something breaks, you don’t fix it, you replace it. The colonies, they have problems to solve. They’re my kind of problems. And a mechanic is somebody. This is a new world still being built. I could build a house and live in it. Open country. Room to grow.
    Aurora Lane: Now you’re back to slogans.
    Jim Preston: Can’t slogans be true?

& Aurora Lane: It’s funny. We all have dreams. We plan our futures like we’re the captains of our fates. But we’re passengers. We go where fate takes us.

& Gus Mancuso: Any more trees I need to know about?

& Gus Mancuso: ...the drowning man will always try and drag somebody down with him. It ain’t right, but the man’s drowning.

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