A Star Is Born (2018)

Ally: I just don't feel comfortable.
Jack: Why wouldn't you feel comfortable?
Ally: Um... Well, 'cause, like, almost every single person that I've come in contact with in the music industry has told me that my nose is too big and that I won't make it.
Jack: Your nose is too big? Your nose is beautiful. Are you showing me your nose right now?
Ally: Yeah.
Jack: You don't have to show it to me. I've been looking at it all night.
Ally: Oh, come on. No, you're not.
Jack: I'll be thinking about your nose for a very long time. .... Can I touch your nose?
Ally: Oh, my gosh!
Jack: Let me just touch it for a second... You're very lucky.
Ally: Oh, really? Yeah, not really. My nose has not made me lucky.

Jack: Look, talent comes everywhere. Everybody's talented. Bet you fucking everybody in this bar is talented in one thing or another, but having something to say and the way to say it so people listen to it, that's a whole other bag. And unless you get out there and you try to do it, you'll never know. That's just the truth. If there's one reason we're supposed to be here, it's to say something so people wanna hear it.

Jack: Hey.
Ally: What?
Jack: I just wanted to take another look at you.

Jack: I love you... Always remember us this way.

George 'Noodles' Stone: Ain't nothing to be afraid of, bro. You know, it's like... I don't know... You float out, float out at sea, and then one day, you find a port. Say, "I'm gonna stay here for a few days." A few days becomes a few years. And then you forgot where you were goin' in the first place. And then you realize, you don't really give a shit about where you was going 'cause you like where you're at... That's how it is for me. I like where I'm at... I didn't even realize I liked it so much till I saw your ass sleeping in the grass this morning.

Jack: Listen, if I just don't say this, I'll never forgive myself.
Ally: What?
Jack: If you don't dig deep in your fucking soul, you won't have legs. I'm just telling you that. You don't tell the truth out there, you're fucked. All you got is you, and what you wanna say to people, and they are listening right now, and they're not gonna be listening forever. Trust me. So, you gotta grab it. And you don't apologize, you don't worry about why they're listening, or how long they're gonna be listening for, you just tell 'em what you wanna say. 'Cause how you say it is the stuff of angels.

Bobby: Jack talked about how music is essentially 12 notes between any octave. Twelve notes and the octave repeats. It's the same story. Told over and over. Forever. And any artist can offer the world is how they see those 12 notes. That's it. He loved how you see them. He just kept saying, "I love how she sees them, Bobby."

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Σ nostradamvs: «Это очень хорошо. Кто-то возмущается, что фильм слишком прост, что в нём нет интриги, что он не заставляет думать. А он и не должен. Это просто история о том, что из пепла может родиться феникс. О том, что если человек спивается, теряет популярность, падает на самое дно – это не делает его плохим или бесталанным. Он может напоследок отдать себя другому – и возродить себя в другом. ...»

Unknown Caller

The Handmaid's Tale 3×5

June: May He and His goodness bless us with miracles, for we are weary and weak of faith... Maybe it's not a miracle. A miracle is beyond human powers. I did this.

June: Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.

June: Blessed day, Commander.
Commander Lawrence: The answer is "no".

June: You get to see her. So... what do I get?
Serena: What do you want?
June: I want you to owe me.

June: Luke. It's me.

June: I think... it's okay to take a sliver of someone... and hold on to that. Especially if it's all you have.

Serena: God bless you.
Luke: Fuck you.

Serena: You wanna know what I tell myself? That she was my miracle, and that I let her go.

Mr. Tuello: You don't have to change back. My offer still stands... Treason and coconuts.

Aunt Lydia: Lucky girl.

Aunt Lydia: Posture, dear. Don't think about being clever. There are consequences.

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The Favourite (2018)

Lady Sarah: I love you, but that I will not do.
Queen Anne: If you love me...
Lady Sarah: Love has limits.
Queen Anne: It should not.

Abigail: This mud stinks.
Sally: They shit in the streets round here. "Political commentary," they call it.

Lady Sarah: Let's shoot something!

Abigail: Can I ask you something?
Lady Sarah: As long as you are aware that I have a gun.
Abigail: You fought hard for this war and your husband is at the front of it. His life is at risk. How can you do that? ..... If he dies?
Lady Sarah: Did you not sacrifice your cunt to fatty German to save your father?
Abigail: Yes.
Lady Sarah: There's always a price to pay.

Queen Anne: I lost some 17 children... Some were born as blood, some without breath... and some were with me for a very brief time.... Today is Hildebrand's day.
Abigail: The day you lost him...
Queen Anne: Yes. Each one that dies, a little bit of you goes with them.

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Abigail: Have you come to seduce me or rape me?
Masham: I am a gentleman.
Abigail: So rape, then.

Abigail: It's good for you. The doctor says it'll leach the toxins.
Queen Anne: What if I should fall asleep and slip under?
Abigail: Just imagine it's hot chocolate.
Queen Anne: Oh, then I shall die happy.

Abigail: My life is like a maze I continually think I have gotten out of, only to find another corner right in front of me.

Lady Sarah: How goes the kingdom?

Lady Sarah: Oh, dear. The servant is dressed in the clothes of a lady. How... whimsical.

Queen Anne: I wish you could love me as she does.
Lady Sarah: You wish me to lie to you? Oh. "You look like a... a... an angel fell from heaven, Your Majesty." No. Sometimes, you look like a badger. And you can rely on me to tell you.
Queen Anne: Why?
Lady Sarah: Because I will not lie! That is love!

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+ All About Eve (1950)

The Tremor

Grace and Frankie 5×7

Nick: Are you hungry?
Grace: Almost never.

Grace: What the hell are you doing?
Frankie: Vegan, Grace! Every time you burn a candle, you are inconveniencing bees.
Grace: You are a lot today.

Sol: How did you do that?
Oliver: It's the command my mother uses for her German shepherds. I guess it translates to Jack Russells, too.
Sol: Well, it really does work. Though, I'm not a huge fan of German yelling...

Grace: She is in no mood for two white men who went to business school.
Nick: I'm hearing you, but I promise Frankie is gonna love Joe. He's handsome, annoyingly leftist, and has done acid with Todd Rundgren.

Grace: So you lied to me.
Nick: Yep. But it was a good kind of lie, like when you tell a kid they can be anything. You were so upset about Frankie's tremor. I was just trying to help...
Grace: It's not helpful to go behind my back. I had a whole marriage of that. I don't want it with you.
Nick: Of course, I'm sorry. For what it's worth... I'm still straight.

Grace: Also, I would like you to check with me before you do something duplicitous to manipulate Frankie, 'cause that's my thing.
Nick: God... we're perfect for each other.

Sol: I can't keep worrying that every time you sleep, you won't wake up. Do you wanna die?
Robert: A little bit right now.

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The Front Runner (2018)

Billy Shore: You think young people are gonna vote for George Bush?
Gary Hart: If the economy keeps up. The world changes when young people give a damn, Billy. We're the only ones who'll give a damn about them.

Billy Shore: We should have won...
Gary Hart: That's not what this was about.
Billy Shore: Then what was it about?
Gary Hart: Now they know who we are.

Kevin Sweeney: Jesus, there's a lot of Billys around here, right?
Bill Dixon: Well, I'm Bill, right? Only an 8-year-old should be called Billy.

Gary Hart: You know the last time a Democratic president came out of the West?
Bill Dixon: Never...?
Gary Hart: Exactly. The West is the future. Always has been. Still is.

AJ Parker: So, around that time you told Gail Sheehy you believed in reform marriage, what did that mean?
Gary Hart: For crying out loud! I... I was young and tired and living across the country from my wife, and I made a stupid joke. You know, this right here is why people don't want to be in public life, because someone will dredge up something you said in a moment 15 years ago and act like it somehow encapsulates your life.

Pete Murphy: Just relax.
Tom Fiedler: What am I supposed to do?
Pete Murphy: Act bored. Most people just look bored.

Pete Murphy: What does she look like?
Tom Fiedler: Attractive. You know? Hot enough to make you leave your wife.

Tom Fiedler: But, Senator, I was at your announcement speech, okay? You said... You said, "We must hold ourselves accountable..."
Gary Hart: I know what I... I know what I said.
Tom Fiedler: "...to the highest possible standards of integrity and ethics." Then why are we standing here? Why are we standing in an alley on a Saturday night? I mean, don't you think you owe it to us to be forthcoming?
Gary Hart: Owe you?
Tom Fiedler: You're denying what we've seen with our own eyes.
Gary Hart: The only thing I deny is the idea that somehow you have the right to ask me these things.
Tom Fiedler: You're running for president--
Gary Hart: I'm aware of that, Tom! It's in the papers.
Tom Fiedler: Well, you have a responsibility--
Gary Hart: I know full well what my responsibilities are!! Do you know yours?!
Pete Murphy: Senator. Have you had sex with that woman?
Gary Hart: You should be... You should be ashamed of yourself.

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Ben Bradlee: Just covering their asses... I swear this is true. New Year's Eve after Jack died, Lyndon Johnson sits down with a whole bunch of us, pulls us in close and says, "Boys, you're gonna see a whole lot of women coming in and out of my hotel suites. I want you to pay us the same courtesy you did Jack." And we did.
David Broder: Different time, Ben.
Bob Kaiser: Yeah, but why? I mean, who decides that?
David Broder: The readers.
Bob Kaiser: And if the readers want to see the candidates naked?

Gary Hart: I've been doing this for 20 years. So have you. The public doesn't care about this crap. They won't stand for it. They won't.
Bill Dixon: I don't know. It... You know, it's not '72. It's not even '82. It's different now.
Gary Hart: It's not different.
Bill Dixon: I wish it wasn't. It is, and... And I don't understand why, but we have to figure out how we're gonna respond to this story.
Gary Hart: We're not... There is no story. They can write all this crap all they want. They will not earn the dignity of my response.

Bill Dixon: ... People are sacrificing for you!
Gary Hart: And I'm not sacrificing? What, should I sacrifice my privacy, Bill? My self-respect? And it won't just be me that gets dragged down. None of those kids you're talking about will work another campaign where some candidate doesn't have to account for who comes and goes from their bedroom, and that is just the beginning.

Lee Hart: I have spent 30 years of my life with your father. I have made many allowances. What, you think I should feel humiliated? Feelings that simple are a privilege of being young.

AJ Parker: Can't we let some other paper use gossip as front page news? I mean, that doesn't mean we have to.
Ben Bradlee: It does, A.J. It does now. We decline to publish, some other newspaper runs with the story. I don't know, the Poughkeepsie Journal, the Miami Herald. Maybe even The New York Times. And the TVs go apeshit over this stuff. Meanwhile, we're sitting on our high horse saying, "Well, we still don't think it's news, because guess what, we didn't think it was news before." And then the wires start running stories about how we're not covering the one thing everybody else is talking about. And so on, and so on.

AJ Parker: Hey, why do you hate him so much?
Ann Devroy: I don't hate Gary Hart. I don't think I trust him.
AJ Parker: That's one approach.
Ann Devroy: Why isn't that your approach? It's your job to be skeptical. I don't think his own wife trusts him.
AJ Parker: Come on. You don't know that.
Ann Devroy: I don't think he respects women.
AJ Parker: Are you kidding? He loves women. Too much, frankly.
Ann Devroy: He uses them.
AJ Parker: Well, come on. Aren't you being a little precious? I mean, he's smart. He's handsome. These women are throwing themselves at him.
Ann Devroy: He is a man with power and opportunity. And that takes certain responsibility. If he were just some day trader screwing around with cocktail girls, I could handle just not liking him. But as our potential next president, that makes me nervous, and as a journalist, you ought to care.

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Tell-Tale Hearts

Big Little Lies 2×2

Mary Louise: What kind of an emergency?
Madeline: The kind short people have?
Mary Louise: .... You don't like me, do you, Madeline?
Madeline: I'm sure you mean well.

Mary Louise: You know, when I was very young... ... my father gave me the best advice. He said, "Mary Louise, you just seek out the bully... and make friends with her.
Madeline: Am I the bully in this scenario?
Mary Louise: On your awesome days, I suspect you are a godsend. But on your bad days... decidedly less so.

Jane: I don't want to offend you, but you are... I do think you're a very genuine person, but you're a very... You're very strange.
Corey: You know, one of the last socially acceptable bigotries is the one against weirdos.

Celeste: We're a family, and... and a family is meant to be open and honest with each other, so.
Max: I don't think we're that kind of family.

Dr. Amanda: I want you to close your eyes. To replay the incident.... Now, I want you to put a close friend in your place. Let's make it Madeline. Put Madeline there instead of you.....

Renata: I'm not gonna not be rich... I will not not be rich!

Martin: Can we just have a dinner like a normal family?
Elizabeth: We are having dinner like a normal family. Getting in each other's business, that's what families do.

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Jane: Did Chloe tell you anything else?
Ziggy: She said something about Mr. Wright giving you salt. That's how it happened. He salted you.

Madeline: Can you understand and maybe contemplate for a minute the fundamental violation of a woman's privacy when you're talking about rape?
Eddie: How about the fundamental violation of our family, of our marriage. I mean, I'm your husband. I am supposed to help you with this stuff. ... What are we, people who keep secrets from each other? Is that our thing now?

Chloe: Is Daddy mad at me?
Madeline: Daddy's mad, but that's the thing about families. Is that you can be mad and you can fight, but you get over it, and you always come back together. That's wh... That's what families do.

Jane: I know that you have to protect your boys, but I have to protect mine.

Renata: Oh my... Will somebody give a woman a moment?!!!

Madeline: I think you're being rash, honey. Life is a series of building blocks that you stand on and you grow on, and I feel like you are kicking the most fundamental building block, which is education, right out from under you.
Abigail: You used to claim that family was your most fundamental building block.
Madeline: Well, of course. It's very important.
Abigail: What, you just, like, kicked that one to the side?

Max: We're already friends. What difference does it make?
Celeste: I don't know. This is what I do know: He's part of your family now. And, I mean, family is always everything, but... sometimes it is.

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The Great Wall (2016)

nostradamvs:

«Я думал, что это суровый исторический фильм про Древний Китай. А оказалось – это такая весёлая фэнтезятина с эстетическими элементами «300», фантастическими зверями с глазами на боках, бойцами в синих доспехах, прыгающих со стены с гарпунами и прочими красивыми бессмысленными вещами. Посмотрел с удовольствием – динамично, красиво, думать не нужно.»

William: In the West, we would be enemies, and I would have to kill you. At least here, we have a common goal.
Rizzetti: Oh, yes. This black powder. It turns air into fire. And kills a dozen men at one time.
Tovar: It is the weapon of our dreams.
William: And what if it's just a myth?

William: We'll take the rise, make a stand there.
Tovar: What a long shitting way to go to die.

William: They look nervous.
Tovar: It's a big wall to be so nervous.

Tovar: Fight or run?
William: Run where?

William: We are honored to be honored.

Commander Lin Mae: Xin ren. Xin ren means trust. To have faith. Here, in this army, we fight for more than food or money. We give our lives to something more. Xin ren is our flag. Trust in each other. In all ways, at all times.
William: Well, that's all well and good, but I'm not jumping. I'm alive today because I trust no one.
Commander Lin Mae: A man must learn to trust before he can be trusted.
William: Then you were right. We're not the same.

William: I've been left for dead twice... it was bad luck.
Ballard: For who?
William: The people who left me!

William: So, how's life without me?
Tovar: A little slow.

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Humbug's Gulch

Fear the Walking Dead 5×3

John: These kinda warnings... There's some serious people on the other side of these.
June: We're serious people.

Luciana: I don't regret... There's words, and there's action. We took action.

Luciana: If we can crash a plane for someone, if we can almost die for someone, whatever comes next... how bad can it be?

June: You almost got yourself killed, John.
John: No. No. He was sprayin' and prayin'. No confidence behind the trigger, shaky as all get out.

Dwight: You can't help me. No one can. This whole place is screwed.

Dwight: My wife. I'm looking for my wife.
John: What's her name?
Dwight: Sherry.
John: What's your name?
Dwight: Dwight.

John: I'm John. John Dorie.
Dwight: Like the fish?
John: "I, e", no "y". And this is June.
June: Like the month. Spelled like it, too.

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Dwight: More walkers?
John: What'd you call 'em?
Dwight: Walkers... the dead.

Dwight: You know, I've been looking for Sherry for... I don't know... at least a year.

Dwight: The only problem is, I'm not gonna be able to get back to you.
John: You leave that to us, buddy.

John: That's a "San Antonio split."

John: Six-gun Sam. That's what I went by when I occasionally... took part in the theatrics.

Dwight: Morgan?
Morgan: Dwight?
June: You two know each other?

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Алекс Тарн — Последний Каин

  “Привет, актеры.  ...

&  – Будет жуток промежуток... Вот вы говорите: «потом, потом...» А ну как его и нету вовсе, этого «потом»? А?

&  – А все почему? А все потому, что открытое голосование полезнее для народного здоровья, чем тайное.

  ... Время было собирать бутылки.”

Captain Marvel (2019)

Vers: Wanna fight?

Yon-Rogg: There's nothing more dangerous to a warrior than emotion... Humor is a distraction... Anger only serves the enemy.

Vers: It's all blank. My life. You're supposed to take the form of who I most admire, but I don't even remember who this person was to me.
Supreme Intelligence: Perhaps this is a mercy, sparing you from a deeper pain. Freeing you to do what all Kree must: put your people's needs before your own. We've given you a great gift. The chance to fight for the good of all Kree.

Carol Danvers: Flying your planes never feels like work.

Korath: Ever been to C-53?
Minn-Erva: Once. It's a real shithole.

Nick Fury: It was cool, you know? Had a space invasion, big car chase. Got to watch an alien autopsy. Typical nine-to-five.

Nick Fury: And you're a Kree? A race of noble warriors?
Vers: Heroes. Noble warrior heroes.

Vers: Nicholas Joseph Fury. You have three names?
Nick Fury: Everybody calls me Fury. Not Nicholas. Not Joseph. Not Nick. Just Fury.
Vers: What does your mom call you?
Nick Fury: Fury.
Vers: What do your friends call you?
Nick Fury: Fury.
Vers: What about your kids?
Nick Fury: If I have them, they'll call me Fury.

Talos: That's not a cat. That's a Flerken.

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Vers: What's happening?
Nick Fury: It's loading.

Talos: It's here. It's gotta be here.
Nick Fury: Well, is it in front of all that nothing, or behind it?

Kree Computer: Species: Flerken. Threat: high.
Nick Fury: It's a cat, not Hannibal Lecter.
Kree Computer: Species: human male. Threat: low to none.
Nick Fury: That thing's clearly busted.

Nick Fury: I'm picking you up now. I'm trusting you not to eat me.

Nick Fury: Come on, do your thing! Come on! Come on! Damn it, Goose! Pick a side.

Nick Fury: You sure that's what Marvel would want?
Carol Danvers: Mar-Vell.
Nick Fury: That's what I said.
Carol Danvers: It's two words. Mar. Vell. Mar-Vell.
Nick Fury: "Marvel" sounds a lot better. You know, like the Marvelettes.

Agent Coulson: So, is it true? That the Kree burned your eye out... because you refused to give them the Tesseract?
Nick Fury: I will neither confirm nor deny the facts of that story.
Agent Coulson: Understood.

Nick Fury: S.H.I.E.L.D. alone can't protect us. We need to find more.
Agent Coulson: More weapons?
Nick Fury: More heroes.
Agent Coulson: You think you can find others like her?
Nick Fury: Hmm, we found her, and we weren't even looking.

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Savages

Outlander 4×5

Murtagh: We risk what we must for our beliefs.
Jamie: Aye.

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Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too

Black Mirror 5×3

Catherine: The other day I walk in and she's writing some obtuse bullshit twenty people are gonna relate to and no one is gonna buy. She's Ashley O, not Leonard fucking Cohen!

Ashley Too: You are getting so good!
Rachel: Oh, come on, I dance like a doofus.
Ashley Too: That's not true, you're a special person!
Rachel: Yeah, yeah, so special no one knows I exist.
Ashley Too: Well, I think if they saw you dance, they'd know.
Rachel: There's this, um, talent contest at my school next week, singing and dancing...
Ashley Too: No way, you have to enter, you'd be awesome!
Rachel: Ahh, I don't know, I don't think I'm good enough.
Ashley Too: If you believe in yourself, you can do anything!
Rachel: Okay, okay, I'll do it. Um, you gotta help me practice.
Ashley Too: Of course I will!

Rachel: I can do anything if I just believe in myself. I can do anything if I just believe in myself...

Catherine: Let's hear it... Another fucking rage dream. ... Slow it down, see if it's salvageable. ... Pitch shift?... Increase the positivity... Okay, we can work with that. Oh, quit whining!

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God Bless the Child

The Handmaid's Tale 3×4

June: Who among them can be persuaded? Who can be turned... ignited... to burn this shit place to the ground?

Aunt Lydia: Girls, God's Eyes are upon you. Best behavior!
Alma: Hell on wheels.

Holly: Sweetheart, Hannah does not need to be sanctified by a bunch of holier-than-thou child molesters!
June: Okay, a little louder, Mother.
Holly: .... You cannot let religion control your choices! That's what they all want!
June: Mom! Shh!
Moira: They are not too thrilled that I'm the fairy godmother!

Serena: To do what?
June: As Mrs. Waterford, you have influence. Access. Power.
Serena: Up to a point.
June: So move the point. Like we did before...

June: Wear the dress. Pull the strings.

Luke: We're not her parents.
Moira: We're like godparents.
Luke: Her mother is my wife.
Moira: And my best friend.
Luke: And... she'd really want us to do this.
Priest: Where is the mother?
Luke: She's in Gilead. This little one should be absolved of their sins.

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Андрей Геласимов — Рахиль (7/7)

<< Ранее

&  У сердца такие же правила, как у шахмат. Сделал ход – перехаживать нельзя. Даже и не надейся.

&  – Я не помню.
     Воспоминания прекрасны только тогда, когда ты не делишь их с остальными. Надежность швейцарского банка. Или сверхзасекреченного компьютера американских спецслужб. Как в голливудском кино.

&  Оскар Уайльд тоже мучился от этих несоответствий. ...
   «Трагедия старости не в том, что стареет тело, а в том, что душа остается молодой».

&  Проблема внутреннего возраста.
     Интересно, он когда-нибудь совпадает с тем, на что смотрят все эти люди в метро, когда ты входишь в вагон и стоишь у дверей, и качаешься, потому что все места заняты, и все смотрят, а на что им, скажите на милость, еще смотреть? И никто не уступает место.
     Или никогда не совпадает?

&  Она – моя жизнь – неторопливо катилась сама по себе, и я даже в приступе сильного энтузиазма не мог бы сказать, что принимаю в ней какое-то особенное участие.

&  ...та, которую ты любил всю свою жизнь, усаживается на чемоданы и говорит, что надо присесть и что прощание будет коротким, потому что краткость – сестра таланта, но ты не согласен, поскольку Чехов был очень скромным, и он имел в виду, что краткость всего лишь сестра таланта, а не сам талант, и значит, прощание должно быть долгим.

  ... И он взял такой маленький бланк, посмотрел на него, подумал и написал: «Сара, где я? Беспокоюсь».”

Vice (2018)

Dick Cheney: You have authorization to shoot down any aircraft deemed a threat.
Karen Hughes: Presidential authority?
Dick Cheney: That is correct. All orders are UNODIR.
Karen Hughes: "UNODIR," sir?
Condoleezza Rice: Unless otherwise directed.

Kurt: As the world becomes more and more confusing, we tend to focus on the things that are right there in front of us... while ignoring the massive forces that actually change and shape our lives.

Kurt: With people working longer and longer hours, for less and less, when we do have free time, the last thing we want is complicated analysis of our government, lobbying, international trade agreements, and tax bills. So it's no surprise that when a monotone, bureaucratic vice president came to power, we hardly noticed... as he achieved a position of authority that very few leaders in the history of America ever have...

Kurt: Back then, they would've called a guy like him a ne'er-do-well. In today's parlance, they would just call him a dirtbag.

Lynne Cheney: You're sorry... One time is "I'm sorry." Two times makes me think that I've picked the wrong man!

Lynne Cheney: Here's my plan. All right? Either you stand up straight... and you get your back straight... and you have the courage to become someone, or I'm gone. ...
Dick Cheney: I love you, Lynne...
Lynne Cheney: Then prove it! Prove it!

Donald Rumsfeld: So, what's it gonna be? Is it a "yes" or a "no"?
Dick Cheney: It's a "yes."
Donald Rumsfeld: You don't even know what the question is, do you?
Dick Cheney: I'm assuming it's to...
Donald Rumsfeld: No, no, no. It's okay. That's exactly the kinda "yes" I was looking for.

Donald Rumsfeld: Fuck Kissinger, he's overrated anyway!

Dick Cheney: What do we believe?
Donald Rumsfeld: What do we believe? "What do we believe?" Oh... That's very good. "What do we believe?..."

Mary Cheney: Is this where Santa lives?
Lynne Cheney: It's even better. It's even better. This is where... the leader of the greatest nation on earth lives.
Mary Cheney: Are you one of his elves, Daddy?
Dick Cheney: In a way, yes.
Lynne Cheney: No, he is not, Mary. Your father is Chief of Staff. Chief of Staff. If you're silly with her, she'll grow up to be a silly woman.
Dick Cheney: Right, of course. I forgot.

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Dick Cheney: I respect the hell out of Reagan, but no one has shown the world the true power of the American presidency.

Dick Cheney: It doesn't matter, sweetheart. We love you no matter what.

Dick Cheney: Oh, I still can't believe they've got that poor boy running for president. What'd they want?
Lynne Cheney: They want to talk to me about being his running mate. ....
Dick Cheney: A vice president is a nothing job.
Lynne Cheney: Mmm. Well, I'll just hear 'em out. I owe that to the father.
Dick Cheney: The VP just sits around and waits for the president to die. You've said so yourself.

George W. Bush: If I lose, maybe I could become commissioner of baseball. You know?
Dick Cheney: But the, um, idea... is to win.
George W. Bush: I'm gonna keep you in the back of my mind.

Dick Cheney: Now, maybe I can, uh, handle some of the more mundane jobs... Overseeing bureaucracy, managing military, uh, energy, uh, foreign policy.....
George W. Bush: That sounds good. Never wanna be the kind of team owner that, uh, pulls the starter in the fourth inning.
Dick Cheney: Mm-hmm.
George W. Bush: That's the manager's job.

Lynne Cheney: Are we at war?
Dick Cheney: Yes, we are.
Lynne Cheney: With whom?

George Tenet: What about the Geneva Convention?
Dick Cheney: The Geneva Convention is open to interpretation.
George Tenet: What exactly does that mean?
David Addington: Stress positions, waterboarding, confided spaces, dogs...
Donald Rumsfeld: We're calling it "enhanced interrogation."
George W. Bush: Are we sure none of this fits in the definition of "torture"?
David Addington: The US doesn't torture.
Dick Cheney: Therefore, if the US does it, by definition, it can't be torture.

Waiter: Good evening, gentlemen. Tonight we're offering the enemy combatant, whereby a person is not a prisoner of war, or a criminal, which means of course that he has absolutely no protection under the law.
    We're also offering an extraordinary rendition where suspects are abducted without record on foreign soil and taken to foreign prisons in countries that still torture.
    We also have Guantanamo Bay, which is very, very complicated, but it does allow you to operate outside the purview of due process on land which isn't technically US territory, but where we still do have control.
    And also, we have a very fresh and delicious War Powers Act interpretation which gives the executive branch broad powers to attack nations or people who it deems still possibly a threat.
    We have the fact that under the unitary executive theory, if the president does anything, it must be legal. Which, of course, means you can do whatever the fuck you want.
    So, gentlemen, which would you like?
Dick Cheney: Hmm. We'll, uh, we'll have them all.

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Red Light, Green Light

Elementary 7×4

Holmes: I've had this dream before. Usually, it's Watson who approaches me, sometimes it's Marcus. One time, it was a scary clown with an axe.

Captain Dwyer: Know what? I take it back. You and your partner aren't welcome at the 11th. You're nuts.

Det. Bell: No way of knowing what their final destination was, but this is New York. It's not like we're short on places to blow up.

Holmes: You play five up front, three in the middle and two at the back. That formation went out with the plague.

Captain Dwyer: Am I crazy, or do we have a bunch of Feds in our conference room? I see FBI, DEA, ICE...

Captain Dwyer: Look, I don't know what kind of arrangement you had with Tommy—
Holmes: It was simple. Catch criminals, even at the expense of their feelings.

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<< Ранее

&  Понимание природы обмана вовсе не значит, что ты не захочешь обмануться еще раз.
     Будучи в здравом уме и в твердом сознании.

&  Потому что никакого прошлого не существует. Фолкнер абсолютно прав. Но только не в том смысле, что твое прошлое всегда с тобой, а в том, что, выйдя из своего прошлого, не надо без конца оборачиваться. Просто погаси свет и выйди из комнаты. Освободи помещение. И не превращайся в соляной столп. Не оборачивайся. «Exegi monumentum» не актуально. Кому нужны белые памятники, если они не из мрамора?

&  Никто ведь не мог внятно мне объяснить – как это так происходит, что между шестьдесят вторым и девяносто вторым годом лежит ровно тридцать лет, сколько бы вы их ни пересчитывали, а промчались они как один день. Как щелчок пальцев.
     И кто виноват в этой математической неразберихе?

&  Мысль Гете о том, что юмор – это не тогда, когда человек хохочет, а когда у него слегка подрагивают уголки губ, этим шутникам не близка.

&  Много говоришь с людьми или мало, но с годами выясняется, что конструкция всякого разговора предполагает почти абсолютную невозможность взаимного понимания. Диалоги Платона замечательны в этом смысле именно тем, что не только запутавшиеся собеседники не понимают Сократа, но и Сократ, в общем-то, не понимает их. Все эти споры об истине, добродетели и конечном торжестве справедливости красноречиво говорят лишь об одном – мир создан так неповторимо прекрасно, что мы не в силах поведать друг другу об этой удивительной красоте.

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Vichnaya Pamyat

Chernobyl 1×5

State Prosecutor: The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. has determined that justice be carried out on behalf of the People in accordance with the general goal of our Party as determined by its 20th, 21st, and 22nd Congresses, which is a Leninist goal. It was, is, and will be the only immutable goal in the Soviet state. The path of Leninist principles shall be consistently and undeviatingly followed as it expresses the vital interests of the Soviet People, its hopes and aspirations as we guide the life of the Party and the State. This session of court is now open...

Boris Shcherbina: The science is strong, but a test is only as good as the men carrying it out. Now, the first time they tried, they failed. The second time they tried, they failed. The third time they tried, they failed. The fourth time they tried was April 26th, 1986...

Valery Legasov: You don't need to be a nuclear scientist to understand what happened at Chernobyl. You only need to know this: there are essentially two things that happen inside a nuclear reactor. The reactivity which generates power either goes up, or it goes down. That's it. All the operators do is maintain balance.

Boris Shcherbina: I'm an inconsequential man, Valera. That's all I've ever been. I hoped that one day I would matter, but I didn't. I just stood next to people who did.
Valery Legasov: There are other scientists like me. Any one of them could have done what I did. But you... Everything we asked for, everything we needed. Men, material, lunar rovers... Who else could have done these things? They heard me, but they listened to you. Of all the ministers and all the deputies... entire congregation of obedient fools... they mistakenly sent the one good man. For God's sake, Boris, you were the one who mattered most.

---

Valery Legasov: We do not know how high the power went. We only know the final reading. Reactor 4, designed to operate at 3200 megawatts, went beyond 33,000.

Valery Legasov: Why? For the same reason our reactors do not have containment buildings around them, like those in the West. For the same reason we don't use properly enriched fuel in our cores. For the same reason we are the only nation that builds water-cooled, graphite-moderated reactors with a positive void coefficient. It's cheaper.

Valery Legasov: I've already trod on dangerous ground. We're on dangerous ground right now, because of our secrets and our lies. They're practically what define us. When the truth offends, we lie and lie until we can no longer remember it is even there. But it is still there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid. That is how an RBMK reactor core explodes. Lies.

KGB Chairman Charkov: Scientists... and your idiot obsessions with reasons. When the bullet hits your skull, what will it matter why?

Valery Legasov: To be a scientist is to be naive. We are so focused on our search for truth, we fail to consider how few actually want us to find it. But it is always there, whether we see it or not, whether we choose to or not. The truth doesn't care about our needs or wants. It doesn't care about our governments, our ideologies, our religions. It will lie in wait for all time. And this, at last, is the gift of Chernobyl.
    Where I once would fear the cost of truth, now I only ask: What is the cost of lies?

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Smithereens

Black Mirror 5×2

Hayley Blackwood: It's never gonna stop, this... needing to know. It's never gonna stop.

Hayley Blackwood: I'm her mum. You'd think they'd give me the password to my own daughter's account, but, no. Violates their privacy policy.

Christopher Gillhaney: Modern fucking companies! Everyone looks so fucking young! How is anybody looking in supposed to have a sense of the fucking hierarchy?! Jesus Christ! Half of you cunts coming out of the building are dressed like fucking gap-year students!

Christopher Gillhaney: People don't even look up anymore. The sky could turn fucking purple and you cunts wouldn't notice for a month.

CS Linda Grace: Teacher with a real gun?
David Gilkes: Not impossible, but not likely.

Penelopa Wu: We're looking into who Christopher is. Group-wise we'd slot him into high intellect, low income—
David Gilkes: Often angry people.

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Billy Bauer: Tipi, really the only good thing about my position is every once in a while I get to invoke... God-mode.

Christopher Gillhaney: I just told you. I want you to listen to me. Just fucking listen to me.

Christopher Gillhaney: You run Smithereen.
Billy Bauer: Uh-huh. Since 2008.
Christopher Gillhaney: I used to use Smithereen all the time. I mean, constantly. Like, my phone was glued to my hand. I was the whole cliché, you know, first thing I saw in the morning, last thing I saw at night.

Christopher Gillhaney: I got bored. I got bored every ten seconds back then...

Christopher Gillhaney: It was your thing, you built it. I heard that that you make these things that way. Addictive. So that you can't take your eyes off them. Well, job done. Bit of user feedback for you there. Maybe factor that into your next update.

Billy Bauer: I started it. There's nothing I can do to fucking stop it. I'm like some kind of... fucking bullshit front-man now.

Christopher Gillhaney: I just wanted to say my piece.I'm gonna go now... And now I'm out of here.

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&  – Бог дает человеку так много, что на самом деле все, что нужно для счастья, – это лишь согласиться. Сказать – да, я согласен, я счастлив, у меня уже так много всего! Надо просто иметь силы, чтобы признать это.

&  – Жизнь, молодой человек, – это более или менее череда упущенных возможностей

&  Несправедливость измены заключается в том, что обманутый и так, в общем, наказан неизвестно за что. Плюс методично уничтожает себя ревностью с такой силой, как будто самый ненавистный теперь ему человек на свете – это он сам. И тем не менее даже этого мало. Помимо всей муки, ненависти и брезгливости по отношению тоже, как это ни странно, к самому себе, тошнотный букет неизбежно украшается сияющим образом соперника-победителя. Который приобретает мифологические черты в считаные секунды. Стоит только услышать от того, кто тебе так дорог: «Ты знаешь, мне надо что-то тебе сказать... Только не сердись, ладно?» И холодные подрагивающие пальцы на твоем рукаве. А счастливый соперник уже занимает в твоем сердце такое же место, как ревущий дракон в сердце рыцаря Ланселота. Или чаша Грааля – в сердце короля Артура. То есть на всю жизнь. И разница между драконом и Граалем лишь в том, какие уроки ты из всего этого извлечешь. Хоть и не виноват во всем, что с тобой случилось. Просто ни сном ни духом.

&  Определение «нормальность» или «я – не сумасшедший» – это все-таки больше самооценка, краткая и невероятно хвастливая автобиография, но никак не описание работы полностью функциональной системы.
     Просто взгляд изнутри. Сквозь узкие смотровые щелочки. Которые к тому же заросли волосами. ...
     А нужен специалист. Чтобы послушал, подумал и сделал вывод: «Да, вы не сумасшедший. Вам нечего здесь делать, батенька... Пожалуйста, немедленно отпустите его». Но о себе он ведь, наверное, тоже думает, что он не сумасшедший. И судит меня, опираясь на свое собственное представление о том, как должен вести себя абсолютно не сумасшедший человек. Такой же примерно, как он.
     А что, если у нас с ним просто одинаковая форма безумия?

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Mary Poppins Returns (2018)

Mary Poppins (1964) <<

Jane: What is it, Georgie? Has something happened?
Georgie: I was flying a kite and it got caught on a nanny!

Mary Poppins: I'll stay. Until the door opens.
Annabel: What does that mean? That door's always opening.
Mary Poppins: Oh, not that door, another one.

Mary Poppins: Come along. Time for a good, clean start.
Annabel: Mother always had us take our baths in the evening.
Mary Poppins: Well, in my experience, Annabel... the perfect time of day to have a bath is when one needs a wash.

Mary Poppins: My goodness, gracious, glory me. You'd think by now they'd have learned to pick up after themselves. Cleaning is not a spectator sport, I'll remind you.

Mary Poppins: If you two are going to keep up all of this whispering... I'd like you to practice doing so as loudly as possible. It will still be bad manners, but at least then we'll all be in on the secret.

Mary Poppins: Everything is possible. Even the impossible.

Shamus: Now, where would we all like to go on this fine, fine day?

♪ Oh, a cover is not the book ♪
♪ So open it up and take a look ♪
♪ 'Cause under the covers ♪
♪ One discovers that the king may be a crook ♪
♪ You'll find your first impression was mistook ♪
♪ For a cover is nice, but a cover is not the book ♪

Mary Poppins: You're all worrying far too much. After all, you can't lose what you've never lost.

♪ Maybe all you're missing lives inside of you ♪
♪ So, when you need her touch and loving gaze ♪
♪ "Gone but not forgotten" is the perfect phrase ♪
♪ Smiling from a star that she makes glow ♪
♪ Trust she's always there ♪
♪ Watching as you grow ♪
♪ Find her in the place where the lost things ♪
♪ Go ♪

Mary Poppins: Second Wednesday. Oh, dear. I'd forgotten. Still, today or never, that's my motto.

Mary Poppins: John, Annabel, Georgie and Jack... this is my cousin.
Cousin Topsy: Second cousin, many times removed. Tatiana Antanasia Cositori Topotrepolovsky. Oh, but you may call me Topsy.
John: That's an unusual accent you've got there. Where are you from?
Cousin Topsy: Oh, that's very interesting story...
Mary Poppins: We have no idea.

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Mary Poppins: You see, when the world turns upside down... the best thing is to turn right along with it.
Cousin Topsy: I do see! From down here, things look right side up! I wouldn't mind seeing things from that angle.

♪ When you change the view from where you stood
The things you view will change for good ♪

Angus: Come along! Join us in a bit of kick and prance.
John: What did he say?
Jack: "Kick and prance," it means "dance." It's leerie speak. You don't say the word you mean, you say something that rhymes, only... Here, I'll show you how it works. Angus, give us your weep and wail. To the rest of ya, that means "tale."

John: Can you speak leerie, Mary Poppins?
Mary Poppins: Can I speak leerie?
Jack: Of course she can. She's Mary Poppins!

♪ So when troubles are incessant ♪
♪ Simply be more incandescent ♪
♪ For your light comes with a lifetime guarantee ♪
♪ As you ♪
♪ Trip a little light fantastic ♪

Michael Banks: It was all the children's idea! The whole time I've been looking after them, they've been looking after me. I had it all backward.
Mary Poppins: A Banks family trait.
Michael Banks: What was I thinking?
Mary Poppins: Some people think a great deal too much. Of that I'm certain.

Michael Banks: Well, what can we do?
Jane Banks: Nothing. We can't turn back time.
Annabel: Why not? Everything is possible. Even the impossible. Can we do that, Mary Poppins? Can we turn back time?
Mary Poppins: Well, I don't see why that couldn't be arranged.

♪ Let the past take a bow ♪
♪ The forever is now ♪
♪ And there's nowhere ♪
♪ to go but up, up! ♪
♪ There's nowhere to go but up ♪

Balloon Lady: Of course, the grown-ups will all forget by tomorrow.
Mary Poppins: They always do.

Mary Poppins: Practically perfect in every way.

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The Handmaid's Tale 3×3

June: Heresy. That's what they're hanging for. Not for being part of the Resistance because officially, there is no resistance. Not for helping people escape because officially, there is no such thing as escape. They hang for being heretics, not martyrs. Martyrs inspire. Heretics are just stupid.

Beth: We're all disposable.

Commander Lawrence: Do you know what the penalty is? For Handmaids who open front doors?... I'm actually asking. I don't know. What do you think the penalty should be? What would be fair?... Forget it, forget it. I guess you're not... capable.

Commander Waterford: Lawrence is a survivor...
June: Aren't we all, sir?
Commander Waterford: He is particularly well suited to it. He's not sentimental, not like me.
June: I never found you... overly sentimental, sir. You were merciful.

Commander Waterford: You know, after everything... I'm still alive. I will always be grateful to you for that.

Commander Waterford: He does not like to be bored.

Commander Lawrence: You used to be Of... Fred. Do you miss it?
Commander Waterford: Well... She's Ofjoseph now. I should let you go. Under His eye.
Commander Lawrence: Sure.

June: Is there anything else I can help you with, sir?
Commander Lawrence: No, I'm good. You're done.

Commander Lawrence: Here's what I don't get. If women don't want to be defined by their bodies, why are they always using them to get what they want?
June: Maybe they aren't. Maybe men are just too easily distracted.

Commander Lawrence: Do you think they got what they deserved?
June: No one in Gilead gets what they deserve, sir.

Commander Lawrence: What did you ever do to help anyone? Except edit esoteric, useless books that no one was ever gonna read instead of picking up your sick daughter from school... Useless.

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June: You wrote esoteric books. You did that.

Commander Lawrence: How tempting it is to... invent a humanity... for anyone at all.

Commander Lawrence: Five is better than none.
June: Make them all Marthas.
Commander Lawrence: We only have five openings. You get to choose... who is worthy of becoming a Martha.

Commander Lawrence: You'll have all the information you need. Names, ages, occupations, academic attainments, moral stains... That's dumb. Who gets to define morality? Just choose the best people for the job.

June: None of them deserves to die.
Commander Lawrence: What if I told you, if you don't choose, they all die?
June: I am not responsible for their deaths. You are. Gilead is.
Commander Lawrence: A technical distinction that won't mean anything to these women...

June: I'm not doing it. I won't.

Pamela Joy: Look at you, all the gifts you've been given... But you need everything to be exactly how you want. A spoiled little girl.

Serena: Blessed be the fruit.
June: Hi.

June: Serena... only a mother could do what you did.

June: There has to be something we can do... We can help each other. We cannot count on them. They hate us, Serena. They are not on our side.

June: I made my choices.

June: We have five new Marthas for the Resistance: an engineer, an IT tech, a journalist, a lawyer, and a thief.
Beth: How do you know?
June: I chose them.

June: We survived another day.

June: Here's what we do. We watch them. The men. We study them. We feed them. We please them. We can make them feel strong or weak. We know them that well. We know their worst nightmares. And, with a bit of practice, that's what we'll become... Nightmares. One day, when we're ready, we're coming for you... Just wait.

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&  Природа всякого выхода, к сожалению, состоит в том, что его непременно надо искать. Психолог показывает своему пациенту картинку со словом «подарки», и тот с радостью говорит либо «день рождения», либо «Новый год». Таковы его примитивные ассоциации. Но зато у него еще есть выбор. В случае с «выходом» опции исключены. Произнесите это слово, и пациент скажет – «надо искать».
     При этом забавно, что вход всегда находится сам собой. Нужно всего лишь чуть-чуть ослабить оборону, прислушаться к вполне симпатичным предложениям, – и вот ты уже в самом центре абсолютно несимпатичных событий. И наверху усмехаются – думать надо было, дурак. И поправляют небрежно нимб, съехавший от усмешки.

&  Отдельным параграфом идет история выхода из ситуации, в которую ты не входил. Другие вошли, но так получилось, что поиски выхода кто-то передоверил тебе. Такому терпеливому геологу, задача которого – вечно искать. Бродить с рюкзаком и постукивать молоточком.
     А у того, кто передоверил, губы все еще дрожат в усмешке. Ему интересно – получится на этот раз или придется искать нового Гомера? Чтобы опять намекнул – как нелепо эти внизу решают свои проблемы. Шумят, суетятся, а в итоге чешут в затылке и повторяют – ну ладно, может быть, в следующий раз повезет... или построим еще одну Трою?

&  Это Макбету [шекспировские ведьмы] явились всезнающими. Великий Бард хотел драматического контрапункта. Мудры, но уродливы. Вернее, уродливы, но мудры. От того, что стоит после «но», зависит отношение к жизни. То есть радуешься, когда просыпаешься по утрам, или нет.

&  – Просто секрет отсутствия красоты распадается на такие компактные персональные истории. Как запертые изнутри купе в поезде. Уютные, кстати. Особенно по вечерам. Лампочки в темноте светятся. Десятки тысяч историй. Все они прописаны в печальных тонах. И в каждом этом глухом купе с лампочкой сидит по одному грустному человеку. При этом все едут в одну сторону. То есть они, в общем-то, вместе, но каждый совершенно индивидуально грустит и хандрит, потому что думает, что он несчастлив. То есть у него не хватает того и того, и еще ему хочется этого. Но он всегда забывает о том, что у него уже есть. Всегда. Это такой закон. То, что ты получил, – оно сразу исчезло. Можно было и не стараться. Как дым.

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The Pianist (2002)

Wladyslaw Szpilman: Look. If I'm going to die, I prefer to die in my own home, staying put.

Wladyslaw Szpilman: You're a musician?
Dorota: Yes. But only just.
Wladyslaw Szpilman: What instrument?
Dorota: The cello.
Wladyslaw Szpilman: I love to see women playing the cello.

Dorota: We can walk in the park...
Wladyslaw Szpilman: No, we can't. Official decree. No Jews allowed in the park.
Dorota: My God. Are you joking?
Wladyslaw Szpilman: I'm not joking, it's true. We could sit in a bench, but "no Jews allowed on public benches".
Dorota: This is absurd.
Wladyslaw Szpilman: We can just stand here and talk. I think we're allowed to do that.

Father: Look here. "Jews living outside of the prescribed area..." will have to move to the Jewish district by 31 of October, 1940."
Wladyslaw Szpilman: They won't get all of us. It's too small. There's 400 thousand of us in Warsaw.
Henryk: No, 360 thousand. So it will be easy.

Dorota: This is disgraceful.
Wladyslaw Szpilman: It won't last long. Don't worry.
Dorota: That's what I said myself. It's too absurd.

Majorek: It's easy to get out. It's how you'll survive on the other side that's hard.

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Janina Godlewska: No-one thought they'd hold out so long...

Janina Godlewska: It's over now. Just be proud of them. My God, did they put up a fight!
Wladyslaw Szpilman: Yes. So did the Germans.
Janina Godlewska: They are in shock! They didn't expect it. Nobody expected it. Jews fighting back. Who would have thought?
Wladyslaw Szpilman: What good did it do?
Janina Godlewska: What good? Wladek, I'm surprised with you. They died with dignity. And you know something else? Now the Wladyslaw Szpilman: Poles will rise. We are ready. We'll fight too.

Wladyslaw Szpilman: Here. Sell this. Food is more important than time.

Wladyslaw Szpilman: I am... I was a pianist.

Wladyslaw Szpilman: Please. What does it mean, all that shooting?
Captain Hosenfeld: The Russians, on the other side of the river. You just have to hold on a couple of weeks, not more.

Captain Hosenfeld: What are you going to do when this is over?
Wladyslaw Szpilman: I'll play piano again at the Polish radio station.
Captain Hosenfeld: Tell me your name. Maybe I'll listen to you playing...
Wladyslaw Szpilman: Szpilman.
Captain Hosenfeld: Perfect name for a pianist.

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What Have They Done?

Big Little Lies 2×1

Mary Louise: Hey! Quiet!... Fine young men don't suddenly become fine young men all of sudden in a whoosh, you know. It starts with being fine young boys. And part of being a fine young boy is listening and respecting your mother. She works so hard for you. That's why the sun shines on her so.

Madeline: Ed, this is the first day of school. We have to earn our good-mom badges all over again. ...we all get judged all over again. It's a complete double standard 'cause if a dad shows up, they're like, "Wow, there's a dad here. He's involved". But with the moms... it just makes me wanna blow. Boom!

Mary Louise: How have you been?
Madeline: Good, good. The kids are good.

Madeline: How are you?
Mary Louise: I can't complain... Actually, I can. My son is dead.

Mary Louise: You're very short.
Madeline: Excuse me?
Mary Louise: I don't mean it in a negative way.
Madeline: Oh.
Mary Louise: Maybe I do. I find little people to be untrustworthy. My apologies.

Mary Louise: You know, you seem like a nice person. Loving. But also, you strike me as a wanter.
Madeline: A... A wanter?
Mary Louise: Mm. You know... there are people in... in life who content themselves with what they have, and then there are others who just... just want.
Madeline: I'm not a wanter.
Mary Louise: Oh, you don't have to take it personally. Anyway, I'm a wanter myself. You know what I want? I want Perry back.

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Mary Louise: Madeline and I were just... talking.

Madeline: ...you're still grieving, and that you've been through a tremendous amount of heartbreak, but I don't care for the way you spoke to me before. It was rude, and I didn't deserve it.
Mary Louise: No, you didn't. Um, I apologize.
Madeline: Well, thank you.
Mary Louise: The truth is, it had nothing to do with you. When I was in boarding school, I had... I had a best friend, or so I thought, who revealed herself to be quite treacherous, and, uh, caused me a lot of pain. So... she was just an itty-bitty little thing with a big, bubbly personality that, um... was designed to hide... that she was utterly vapid inside. You remind me so much of her that I suppose I punish you for that. That's wrong of me, and I apologize.

Corey: The way people talk in this town, I don't need to tell you.
Jane: You don't need to tell me? What does that mean?
Corey: You're one of the Monterey Five, right?
Jane: Monterey Five?
Corey: You were there the night the guy fell.

Mary Louise: What, my grief is too loud for you? Oh, Celeste... We should scream! We should scream and beat our breasts and... and tear our hair! Don't you feel angry?!

Mary Louise: So... who are we planning to kill?

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&  В детстве развлекались тем, что забалтывали слова до полного исчезновения смысла. Повторяешь «самолет» сто пятьдесят раз на большой скорости и в итоге перестаешь понимать. Губы произносят, а в голове уже ничего нет. Пустота из семи букв. То же самое и с иронией. И вообще отличный способ избавиться от того, что тебя беспокоит. Повтори много раз, и оно исчезнет.

&  Или слушай народные песни. Надо признать, иногда пробирает до слез. Правда, тут тоже каприз воображения. Слушаешь, как они поют, легко идентифицируешь себя со всем этим великим народом, но потом они плавно переходят к цыганскому репертуару, а за ним – «Чардаш», и ты, перестав быть «ромалой» и после этого огненным венгром, начинаешь постепенно сожалеть, что эскимосский народ не оставил такого яркого песенного наследия. Потому что любопытно ведь ощутить себя эскимосом.
     И тоже взять и заплакать от этого иногда.

&  «Я не понимаю тебя! – сердилась Люба и морщила нос. – Как это половина может быть больше целого?»
     «А вот так, – говорил я. – В этом и состоит удивительная тайна паллиатива. Недосказанность всегда будет содержать больше смыслов, чем то, что высказано до конца. Понимать надо. ...»

&  Мораль не является экономической категорией.
     Однако Бог создал нас моральными существами. Следовательно, мы либо должны оставаться моральными, либо Бог над нами посмеялся. Конец силлогизма.

&  С годами я понял, что ощущение полного и абсолютного счастья вообще никогда не длится дольше минуты. Где-то в атмосфере или над ней происходит что-то никому не понятное, и все на минуту соединяется, сходится, как стрелки на циферблате в двенадцать часов. И у тебя вдруг все получилось.
     Вот только до конца никогда не ясно – это середина дня или середина ночи?

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Extreme Sandbox

Billions 4×12

Bobby Axelrod: The great ones...they all have to suffer to make something like this. And then usually they only get the recognition once they're in the dirt.
Rebecca Cantu: There's no rule that says the greater you want to be, the more you have to suffer.
Bobby Axelrod: Well. Sure seems like there is.

Chuck Rhoades: Wouldn't you rather repent with your medical license?
Wendy Rhoades: I suppose I would.
Chuck Rhoades: Then we've got to get it done now, before they officially rule.
Wendy Rhoades: They all but have.
Chuck Rhoades: And in that tiny space between "all" and "have" lies our hope...

AG Jeffcoat: Eh. Palaver with me or just listen. I give not a Tinker's-dam... I am here to offer you the chance to resign before I crush you, publicly, and loud as a cow elk trying to squeeze out breached twins.

Chuck Rhoades: Spare me your rodomontade.

Chuck Rhoades: You know, you once remarked you knew all the fancy words I did. That you'd gone to the same schools. Yet you love to deploy the earthy, the homespun, the language of the dirt road and the barefoot walk to school. The language, in short, of your parents and cousins... Well, I, too, can reach back into familial lexicon for bracing truths... And my, uh... my mother's father was from Italy... yes, a Roman, you know. And he taught me that when someone talks to you as though you are of no consequence, you have two choices... The first... is to wilt away. And the second is to get right in their face and tell them... Sei fuori come un balcone, figlio di buona donna, ti venisse un colpo, a te e a tutta la palazzina tua ma guardati che sei, burino, cazzabubbolo, baciapile, non ti vogliono manco li cani... Sei cosi stronzo che se pesti una merda fai scopa! Li mortacci tua! Vaffanculo! Eh!

AG Jeffcoat: That is real good, Chuck. That was a good trick. Ah, a good trick. I don't understand a word you said. But I got the general feeling. And I like it. .... So let me give you a final taste of biscuits and white gravy American. You know what happens to a lumberjack who doesn't react when he hears "timber"?... He gets crushed by a tree.

Taylor Mason: I hate the expression "mistakes were made." Because it avoids blame.

Kate Sacker: Say you do get him. Do you think you can ratchet back the Jack Torrance shit?
Bryan Connerty: Like from The Shining?
Kate Sacker: Yeah. You have that same obsessed look in your eye.
Bryan Connerty: The difference is: I'm not seeing ghosts riding Big Wheels...

Bryan Connerty: ...just tell me this: does the recording spell out who the idiot is? That's the one person who wasn't there. But is mentioned. We could lean on him.
Kate Sacker: Nineteen.

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Sean Ayles: What Daddy said was: elbow grease alone won't solve what elbow grease and a few silver coins will.
Mike Wagner 'Wags': A real philosopher king.
Sean Ayles: He also told me to find a career that would justify elbow patches on my sport coats. "Because that would signify useful work, Pa?" I asked. .... And he said: no, Son, because folks will believe you mean well.
Bobby Axelrod: All this to say...
Sean Ayles: Her trouble won't go away because we smile nice and ask even nicer. It's gonna take some institutional lubricant.
Bobby Axelrod: How much.
Sean Ayles: $25 million.
Bobby Axelrod: Ouch. Now I think I need the lube.

Bobby Axelrod: Hey, Ayles, you actually even know your father?
Sean Ayles: Does anyone, really?

Chuck Rhoades: You're always telling me how simple my gig is. If it's all so basic, why don't you do the skinning? I'll tell you: because it's bloody work. Grimy.
Bobby Axelrod: Then roll 'em up and sink 'em in up to the shoulders.

Rebecca Cantu: Something about the directness of the metaphor here is going to feel absurd for a minute. I need you to fight that off. And own the fact that you are moving the fucking earth. Because that's what you are and what you do in the actual world.

Wendy Rhoades: I'd love to work with you, but you don't need much that you don't already give yourself. That's what sets you apart. Most people let their childhood bullshit run them. You use yours to propel you. And not in a way that you're hiding from it, either, and it's gonna bite you. You synthesize it. ... You're doing exactly what you're meant to be doing.

Rebecca Cantu: Cute pitch, but I wonder... how the fuck do you think you have the authority to do that when I'm CEO.

Rebecca Cantu: Oracular wisdom feels better when the oracle hasn't just anally rended you.

Bobby Axelrod: ...sure, your choice was rational. But to me, it was traitorous.

Bobby Axelrod: .... So I decided: fuck it.

Bobby Axelrod: One more thing though. I want you to arrest but NOT charge Taylor. ...... 'cause I want Taylor back at Axe Capital, working for me.
Chuck Rhoades: Come again?

Bobby Axelrod: ... 'Cause they won't come for money. But they will come from fear. And from leverage. So leverage them and scare them.

Rhoades, Sr.: Once I tell you who he is, Ira, we can't go back. It's a real mindblower.
Chuck Rhoades: We should all brace ourselves for what's coming.
Rhoades, Sr.: Yes.
Chuck Rhoades: Well. Do it, Dad. Say the name.
Rhoades, Sr.: Well, I mean, at this point it's gotta be clear, right?... The idiot in question is *****
Chuck Rhoades: Yes. Well. The rub of it is...

Chuck Rhoades: ...he's gone completely over the line and committed all manner of crimes that led to this, and his arrest is, uh, moments away.
Rhoades, Sr.: Which is why we dubbed the man 'the idiot'. Should've called him the fucking idiot...

Chuck Rhoades: Oh. Bryan, it pains me to be here like this...

Bryan Connerty: It's the power of the office, that gets you leaning forward.
Chuck Rhoades: It's dangerous and hard to ride, like an unbroken horse. That's something you never really heard me on. It is not easy, not easy at all.

Bryan Connerty: They call this getting what you deserve, don't they?
Chuck Rhoades: It's coming for all of us.

AG Jeffcoat: You are a real troublemaker, Rhoades.
Chuck Rhoades: Runs in my blood.
AG Jeffcoat: Runs in your kind. You take that to mean ethnic, fine. Or New Yorkers. Or guys with hair all over their faces.
Chuck Rhoades: That's just like you... focused on a man's beard with so much intensity you miss his foot coming up to kick you in the gonads.

Chuck Rhoades: How're those low hangers feeling?
AG Jeffcoat: Heavy, full, and ready to shoot.

Chuck Rhoades: .... The ballsack has to feel at least a twinge by now...

AG Jeffcoat: You really did it... got me right in the onions...

Chuck Rhoades: No, Bryan, no. When it comes to me, the thing you've got to learn is: no one's left standing.

Chuck Rhoades: You're not under arrest. But it would be good if you act like you are...

Taylor Mason: He wants me to come back to work for him? At Axe Capital. He wants that?
Chuck Rhoades: Yes, which gives us an opening...

Chuck Rhoades: ...and I want you to help me take him down, once and for all.

Bobby Axelrod: We don't have to be best friends. Or friends of any kind. I just want your brain.

Taylor Mason: They're both lined up to destroy each other. At the right moment when both have their guns raised, I'll step out of the way and let it happen. I'll help it happen. They'll put each other in the ground and I'll go about my fucking business.

Ben Kim: Hi, Taylor! Hi, Mafee!
Dollar Bill: Shut the fuck up, Ben.

Bobby Axelrod: Welcome home.
Taylor Mason: ... Happy to be here.

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Fear the Walking Dead 5×2

Victor: If you're watching this, it means I probably didn't make it... Sarah. Wendell. Charlie. It's onto you to do what I couldn't. Just know that I tried.

Victor: Can we just take a breath, Daniel?....

Daniel: You still talk too much, Victor.

Daniel: Skidmark likes you.
Victor: He has good taste.
Daniel: He licks his own ass.

Luciana: When will I be able to play the accordion?
June: You play the accordion?
Luciana: I was thinking of learning.

Luciana: This is the drugs talking, right?

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Grace: Don't talk. Talking's bad. Breathing's bad.

John: Boy, this place just keeps getting friendlier and friendlier, don't it?
June: That's exactly why we need to be here.
John: Little bit of sunshine in a dark place. Maybe so.

Morgan: You don't know it until somebody tells you, so, uh... I got to tell you. ... These things haven't always gone the way that I would hope. You are not locked in. The door opens. There is a way out.

Morgan: There's no way to really protect yourself. You can't put a weapon between you and losing people, and you can't even run away from them, either. I'm telling you that because I tried. The way out is opening the door. To people. To possibility. To the hurt that will happen.

Daniel: I'm not giving you the plane, 'cause you'll make it all worse for them. Every time you help people, you end up hurting them. No one knows that better than I do. And if you come back... the next one will be in your face.

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Андрей Геласимов — Рахиль (2/7)

<< Начало

&  – Как это у тебя получилось?
     – Ничего сложного. Простой анализ структуры. У каждого героя своя функция и свои мотивы. Как только и то и другое исчерпано, автору приходится его убивать. Если это хороший автор. У плохого все может тянуться до бесконечности, поскольку он не понимает ни мотивов, ни функций. Тогда читатель или зритель скучает. Аналитику определить этот момент в тексте совершенно не трудно. Позитивный эффект от ухода персонажа состоит в том, что зритель испытывает сострадание. Если погибает центральный герой, сострадание перерастает в катарсис. Ну, это все есть у Аристотеля. Технологии разработаны очень давно.
     – А как ты узнал, что в последней перестрелке убьют только главного цэрэушника?
     – Перед стрельбой он единственный снял пиджак. Это вопрос колористики. На белой рубашке кровь выглядит намного эффектней – поэтому режиссер специально его раздел. А в момент попадания пуль, если ты помнишь, сцена перешла в режим замедленной съемки. Это можно назвать актуализацией ключевого события за счет задержки в развитии композиции. Гете, кажется, называл это «ретардацией». Точно не помню.
     – А пожар в машине?
– Видеоряд до этого был насыщен образами огня. И у того, кто должен был в итоге сгореть, прозвучала в предыдущей сцене реплика «Моя жизнь – как пламя», или что-то в таком духе. Это была, конечно, метафора, но в искусстве ничего не происходит без подготовки. Так же, например, как в бою. Перед атакой пехоты или бронетехники ведется артиллерийский огонь. То есть необходимо заранее создать внутреннюю мотивацию того или иного события, поскольку как автор ты знаешь, что оно в конце концов должно произойти. А просто так ничего не бывает. В реальной жизни, между прочим, тоже работают эти законы. Называются «причинно-следственные связи». Только вектор их построения смотрит в противоположную сторону. Как европейская письменность, в отличие, скажем, от арабской. Не справа налево, если ты понимаешь, о чем я говорю. И строит их совсем другой автор.

&  Время от времени так выходит, что те, кому нас доверил Бог, могут нас не устраивать и даже причинять сильную боль, но это, в общем-то, не нашего ума дело, и все что от нас требуется – лишь способность оправдать вместе с ними это доверие и быть в итоге достойным его.

&  Разумеется, моя мама была русская. Иначе откуда бы у меня взялась вся эта любовь к евреям? Будь я стопроцентный семит, я бы их наверняка ненавидел. Из всех народов человеку мыслящему труднее всего полюбить свой собственный.
     Приходится долго убеждать себя, что виной тому твоя злобная и нелепая предвзятость, которая на самом деле есть форма скрытой и таинственной любви, выдающей себя за критическое отношение, а вовсе и не предвзятость, и никакой ты, значит, не предатель, а настоящий мужественный патриот.
     Вот только раздражает поведение отдельных персонажей. Сливающихся постепенно в довольно многочисленные группы. А ты сидишь и занимаешься поисками толерантности в своем сердце. Как будто ходишь на работу, за которую давно уже никто не платит. Но ты ходишь, потому что привык. И вообще – как иначе? Свой народ надо любить.

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