Tywysog Cymru

The Crown 3×6

Queen Elizabeth II: The government proposed, and we agree, that you should spend a term at the university there to learn the language.
Prince Charles: But...
Queen Elizabeth II: No buts.
Prince Charles: But I'm really rather happy at Cambridge, not to mention I've just been cast in a wonderful role.
Queen Elizabeth II: I know, but...
Prince Charles: I thought no buts.
Queen Elizabeth II: But sometimes duty requires one to put personal feelings...
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: And frivolity.
Queen Elizabeth II: ...aside. Good. That's settled then.

Prince Charles: I gather you're a Welsh nationalist.
Edward Millward: Hmm. I'm an educator.
Prince Charles: Do you leave your politics at the door?
Edward Millward: No. My politics are the reason why I walk through the door every day, and if I believe, and I do, that anyone deserves a university education, then it would be hypocritical of me not to extend that privilege to those at the very top, as well as the bottom.
Prince Charles: But you don't approve of... me.
Edward Millward: I've nothing against you personally.
Prince Charles: But you wish my role didn't exist, my family's.
Edward Millward: I don't think of myself as against things. I'm for things. For my country, my culture, and my language, most of all.
Prince Charles: And you think that the Crown exists in opposition to that.
Edward Millward: I think it imposes a kind of uniformity that by default, yes, suppresses Welsh identity with a ubiquitous Britishness.
Prince Charles: But Wales is Britain. Britain is Wales. Historically, we always fought together. Henry V at Agincourt...
Edward Millward: Yes. Welshmen have historically bled for the conquests of your Crown, and why, one might ask? For what?...

Queen Elizabeth II: "If this union is to endure, then we must learn to respect each other's differences. Nobody likes to be ignored, to not be seen or heard or listened to."
Prince Charles: Well, am I wrong? Isn't there a similarity between my predicament and the Welsh? Am I listened to in this family? Am I seen for who and what I am?
Queen Elizabeth II: No.
Prince Charles: Do I have a voice?
Queen Elizabeth II: Rather too much of a voice for my liking. Not having a voice is something all of us have to live with. We have all made sacrifices and suppressed who we are. Some portion of our natural selves is always lost.
Prince Charles: That is a choice.
Queen Elizabeth II: It is not a choice. It is a duty.

Queen Elizabeth II: I was a similar age to you when your great-grandmother, Queen Mary, told me that to do nothing, to say nothing, is the hardest job of all. It requires every ounce of energy that we have. To be impartial is not natural, it's not human. People will always want us to smile or agree, or frown or speak, and the minute that we do, we will have declared a position, a point of view, and that is the one thing as the royal family we are not entitled to do. Which is why we have to hide those feelings, keep them to ourselves. Because the less we do, the less we say or speak or agree or...
Prince Charles: Or think... or breathe... or feel or exist.
Queen Elizabeth II: The better.

Prince Charles: But doing that is perhaps not as easy for me as it is for you.
Queen Elizabeth II: Why?
Prince Charles: Because I... have a beating heart. A character. A mind and a will of my own. I am not just a symbol. I can lead not just by wearing a uniform, or by cutting a ribbon, but by showing people who I am. Mummy, I have a voice.
Queen Elizabeth II: Let me let you into a secret... No one wants to hear it.
Prince Charles: Are you talking about the country... or my own family?
Queen Elizabeth II: No one.

Prince Charles:
     For within the hollow crown
     rounds the mortal temples of a king
     keeps Death his court
     and there the antic sits,
     scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
     allowing him a breath...
     a little scene to monarchize.
     Be fear'd and kill with looks...
     infusing him with self and vain conceit...
     as if this flesh which walls about
     our life, were brass impregnable...
     and humor'd thus comes at the last
     and with a little pin...
     bores through his castle wall,
     and farewell king!

     Cover your heads...
     and mock not flesh and blood
     with solemn reverence...
     throw away respect,
     tradition,
     form and ceremonious duty...
     for you have but mistook me all this while
     I live with bread like you,
     feel want...
     taste grief...
     need friends...
     subjected thus,
     how can you say to me...
     I am a king?

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Truths

Dark 1×5

Noah: Hello, Bartosz. My name is Noah.

Noah: I'm Noah. I'm a priest at St. Christopher's Church. Ines called me. Do you believe in God?

Noah: How do you believe the world came to be? Who created all the beautiful things?
Mikkel Nielsen: The world came to be through the Big Bang. 13.8 billion years ago. That's how space, time and matter came to be, and Earth as well. The rest is evolution.
Noah: And what was there before the Big Bang? Nothing can arise from nothing. Maybe the Big Bang is nothing more than God's act of creation.
Mikkel Nielsen: My father says religion is the brainwashing of the masses.
Noah: I'm sure your father knows a lot, but he doesn't know everything. It's good that he raised you to question things. But every now and then, it's good to question those who question things. God has a plan for every human being. Including you.

Ulrich Nielsen 1986: ... And then she says, "When you grow up your heart dies." That line hits you, bam! Right in your face, you know? And in the end you think they've become friends because that created a bond between them. But in the end, they're all stuck in their little pigeonholes.

Katharina Nielsen 1986: I'm not joking. No kids. Never.
Ulrich Nielsen 1986: I promise. No kids.

Ulrich Nielsen: Do you know why I became a policeman?.. When my brother vanished back then, they made every mistake in the book. The chief investigator was a drunken moron. And I... I swore I'd do everything differently. That I'd do things right. That I wouldn't become an incompetent asshole pig like him. That was 33 years ago. And now look at me. I'm a joke. I cheat on my wife. My son has vanished. I can't do anything. Thirty-three years. Everything is the same. Just that now I'm the incompetent asshole.
Charlotte Doppler: Have you ever heard of the 33-year cycle? Our calendars are wrong, a year isn't 365 days long. We're always a bit "out of sync," so to speak. But every 33 years everything is just like it was. The stars, the planets, the whole universe returns to the exact same position. The lunar-solar cycle.

The Stranger: Life is a labyrinth. Some people wander around their whole lives looking for a way out, but there's only one path and it leads you ever deeper. You don't understand it until you've reached the center. Death is incomprehensible, but you can make peace with it. Till then you should ask yourself each day if you've made the right decisions.

Mikkel Nielsen: Do you know Houdini?
Hannah Kahnwald 1986: Who?
Mikkel Nielsen: Harry Houdini, one of the world's greatest magicians. There is no such thing as magic, just illusion. Things only change when we change them. But you have to do it skillfully, in secret. Then it seems like magic.

Mikkel Nielsen: I'm from the future.
Hannah Kahnwald 1986: You're cool.
Mikkel Nielsen: No, I'm Mikkel.
Hannah Kahnwald 1986: Hi, Mikkel, boy from the future. I'm Hannah.

Michael Kahnwald: The truth is a strange thing. You can try to suppress it, but it will always find its way back to the surface.      We make a lie into our truth in order to survive. We try to forget. Until we can't anymore.
     We don't know even half of the mysteries of this world. We are wanderers in the darkness.
     This is my truth.
     On November 4, 2019 I traveled through time to the year 1986. The boy from the future stayed, and in time he became a man. Mikkel became Michael, who never knew where he belonged. By the time you read this I'll already be gone. Both as a boy and as a man.
     I hope you can forgive me.
     Everything is connected.

The Stranger: I'd like to talk to you about time...

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Fork

The Queen's Gambit 1×5

Alice Harmon: Dark's nothing to be afraid of. In fact, I'd go as far as saying there's nothing to be afraid of. Anywhere.

Alice Harmon: The strongest person is the person who isn't scared to be alone. It's other people you got to worry about. Other people. They'll tell you what to do, how to feel… Before you know it… you're pouring your life out in search of something other people told you to go look for.

Alice Harmon: Someday, you're gonna be all alone, so you need to figure out how to take care of yourself.

Harry Beltik: You don't ever study?
Beth Harmon: I analyze games. What actually happened, not what could have happened. And I play it by ear.
Harry Beltik: Like Capablanca.
Beth Harmon: He would have beaten Borgov.
Harry Beltik: Mmm, not every game.
Beth Harmon: Mmm, every game that counted.

Beth Harmon: You think I'm a prima donna, don't you?
Harry Beltik: It's chess. We're all prima donnas.

Harry Beltik: You're stubborn, so you get mad. When that happens, you can only see what's in front of you.
Beth Harmon: Anger clears my head.
Harry Beltik: Anger is a potent spice. A pinch wakes you up, too much dulls your senses.

Beth Harmon: Um… I-I just wasn't ready. I'm ready now... Now or never.

Harry Beltik: You're too sharp for me.

Harry Beltik: You have a lot in common.
Beth Harmon: Really? Morphy was a lawyer or something, in New Orleans.
Harry Beltik: You look at his games, the way he played. He sacrificed knights and bishops like he had a dozen instead of two, and then he'd move in on the king so fast, his opponents would just freeze up.
Beth Harmon: It's too bad Morphy and Capablanca hadn't been alive at the same time. They could've played each other.
Harry Beltik: Yeah, it's too bad Morphy fell into a muttering paranoia and died.

Harry Beltik: [Morphy] would stay up all night, in Paris, before his games, drinking in cafes, and talking with strangers. And then he'd play the next day like a shark. Well-mannered, well-dressed, moving the pieces with these small, ladylike hands. Crushing one European master after another. You know what they called him? "The pride and the sorrow of chess." And then he retired at 22.
Beth Harmon: And you think that's gonna be me?
Harry Beltik: I think that is you. I think maybe… It's always been you.

Benny Watts: Highest-rated players in the whole fucking country, and yet here we are at some second-rate university, playing on cheap plastic boards with cheap plastic pieces... If this were a golf or tennis tournament, we'd be surrounded by reporters, as opposed to... whoever these people are. You should see where they play in the Soviet Union.
Beth Harmon: I'm planning on it.
Benny Watts: You have to get past me first.
Beth Harmon: I'm planning on that, too.

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The One with the Morning After

Friends 3×16

Phoebe: Why are you mopping your ceiling?
Monica: Ugh, there's banana on it.
Phoebe: I have the spirit of an old Indian woman living in mine.
Monica: So then you know.

Ross: God, I'm in hell. I mean, what am I gonna do? Rachel's all "I love you," and all I can think about... is what is she gonna do when I tell her what I did?
Chandler: First, we should address the more important question... how dumb are you?

Ross: Look, we're trying to rebuild a relationship here, right? How am I supposed to do that without being honest?
Joey: I'm on board about the total-honesty thing. I am. Just not about stuff that's gonna get you in trouble.

Monica: Should we do something?
Chandler: Yeah. Never cheat on Rachel.

Chandler: Wax the door shut. We're never leaving.

Ross: Come on, tell me what you're thinking.
Rachel: I'm thinking... I'm gonna order a pizza.
Ross: Order a pizza, like... "I forgive you"?

Joey: Pizza? I like pizza. Put olives on the pizza.
Phoebe: We could eat the wax! It's organic!
Chandler: Oh, great. Food with hair on it.
Phoebe: No, not the used wax.
Chandler: Because that would be crazy?

Ross: You can have the last piece if you want.
Rachel: Well, I should think so. You slept with someone.

Phoebe: They're gonna get through this, aren't they?
Chandler: Yeah. Come on, it's Ross and Rachel. They've got to.
Phoebe: What if they don't?
Joey: You think I need a new walk?
Chandler: What?
Joey: Well, I've been walking the same way since high school. You know how some guys walk into a room and everybody takes notice? I think I need a take-notice walk.
Chandler: Are you actually saying these words?

Chandler: Is that your new walk?
Joey: No. I really have to pee.

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The Blues Brothers (1980)

Corrections Officer: One Timex digital watch, broken. One unused prophylactic. One... soiled. Boots, black. Belt, black. One black suit jacket. One pair black suit pants. One hat. Black. One pair of sunglasses. $23.07. Sign here.

Elwood: You don't like it?
Jake: No, I don't like it... Car's got a lot of pickup.
Elwood: It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic-inch plant. It's got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. It was a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas. What do you say? Is it the new Bluesmobile, or what?
Jake: ... Fix the cigarette lighter.

Jake: $5,000? No problem. We'll have it for you in the morning. Let's go.
Sister Mary Stigmata: No. I will not take your filthy, stolen money!
Jake: Well, then. I guess you're really up shit creek.
Sister Mary Stigmata: I beg your pardon! What did you say?
Jake: I offered to help you. You refused to take our money. Then I said, "I guess you're really up shit creek." Ow!
Elwood: Christ, Jake, take it easy, man. Jesus Christ!
Jake: Shit! Goddamn it! Son of a bitch!
Elwood: Jesus Christ! You son of a bitch!
Jake: You fat penguin! Fuck this noise, man!
Sister Mary Stigmata: You are such a disappointing pair. I prayed so hard for you. It saddens and hurts me that the two young men whom I raised to believe in the Ten Commandments, have returned to me as two thieves with filthy mouths and bad attitudes. Get out! And don't come back until you've redeemed yourselves.

Elwood: All I'm saying is we got to figure out some way to get that money honestly.
Jake: That could be a problem...

Jake: The band! Do you see the light?
Elwood: What light? Have you seen the light?
Jake: Yes! Jesus H. Tap-Dancing Christ! I have seen the light! The band, Elwood, the band!

Jake: First you trade the Cadillac for a microphone. Then you lie to me about the band. Now you're gonna put me right back in the joint.
Elwood: They're not gonna catch us. We're on a mission from God.

Elwood: We'll be all right if we can just get back on the expressway.
Jake: This don't look like no expressway to me!
Elwood: Don't yell at me.
Jake: What do you want me to do, Motorhead?
Elwood: Try not to be so negative all the time. Why don't you offer some constructive criticism?
Jake: You got us into this parking lot, pal. Now you get us out!
Elwood: You want out of this parking lot? Okay.

Murph: You'll never get Matt and Mr. Fabulous out of them high-paying gigs.
Jake: Oh, yeah? Well, me and the Lord, we got an understanding.
Elwood: We're on a mission from God.

Jake: Ma'am, would it make you feel any better if you knew that what we're asking Matt here to do is a holy thing?
Elwood: You see, we're on a mission from God.

Jake: I hate Illinois Nazis.

Maury: A gig like that, you gotta prepare the proper exploitation.
Elwood: I know about that stuff. I been exploited all my life.

Jake: Maury, we need this gig!
Elwood: We're on a mission from God.

Elwood: This is glue. Strong stuff.
Jake: What the hell are you doing?
Elwood: This can is from a surplus disposal run. Fifteen overcharged ounces of pure uncompounded isoproponyl butane monosulphide. When combined with oxygen and a little heat it will cause a rapid expansion.

Elwood: We're so glad to see so many of you lovely people here tonight. We'd especially like to welcome all the representatives of Illinois' law enforcement community, who have chosen to join us here in the Palace Hotel ballroom at this time. We certainly hope you all enjoy the show. And remember that no matter who you are and what you do to live, thrive and survive there're still some things that make us all the same. You. Me. Them. Everybody. Everybody...

Mystery Woman: ...for me, for my mother, my grandmother, my father, my uncle, and for the common good I must now kill you and your brother.
Jake: Oh, please don't kill us! Please, please, don't kill us... You know I love you, baby! I wouldn't leave you! It wasn't my fault! You miserable slug!
Mystery Woman: You think you can talk your way out of this? You betrayed me!
Jake: No, I didn't. Honest! I ran out of gas! I had a flat tire! I didn't have enough money for cab fare! My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. And old friend came in from out of town! Someone stole my car! There was an earthquake! A terrible flood! Locusts! It wasn't my fault, I swear to God!
Mystery Woman: Oh, Jake...

Elwood: It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses.
Jake: Hit it.

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Double Lives

Dark 1×4

Charlotte Doppler: I've seen spots like that on feathers before. Thirty-three years ago. As if all this has happened before. The children, the birds... Somehow it's all connected. I just don't know how.

Helge Doppler: The beginning is the end, and the end is the beginning. The beginning is the end, and the end is the beginning. The beginning is the end...

Pathologist: It probably died from losing its bearings and crashing into the ground. Cracked skull. It happens often. Electromagnetic fields interfere with their sensory systems.
Charlotte Doppler: High voltage power lines?
Pathologist: No. We're talking voltages in the radio wave spectrum. Electrical appliances.
Charlotte Doppler: And the white spots in the feathers?
Pathologist: The white spots... They started appearing after Chernobyl. It's a kind of mutation.
Charlotte Doppler: Radiation contamination?
Pathologist: I checked, but the radiation levels are normal.
Charlotte Doppler: Interesting...
Pathologist: It sure is.

Franziska Doppler: I'm getting out of this phoney shithole. Behind everyone's friendly smile there's nothing but lies.

Ulrich Nielsen: Understanding is nice, thank you. But it's not enough. My child is gone, okay? This isn't just some file on your desk. It's my child. Why Mikkel? I keep asking myself that. Why him? Why my son? Why not his son? Why not his?... I'm being punished. And all I get is fucking sympathy. Well, you can take that and shove it. ... Why is no one doing anything? Should I tell you why? Because it's not his kid. And because it's not your kid.

Helge Doppler: I have to tell him. He has to stop it.

Charlotte Doppler: Who is Noah?

The Stranger: We're searching for Ariadne's thread, the one meant to guide us along the right path. A beacon in the darkness. We'd love to know our fate. Where we're headed. But the truth is that there is but one path through all times. Predetermined by the beginning and by the end. Which is also the beginning.

The Stranger: You must be Yasin. Noah sent me.

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Middle Game

The Queen's Gambit 1×4

Beth Harmon: Do you play?
Tim: No, too cerebral. Played a lot of Monopoly, though.
Beth Harmon: Never played that game.
Tim: Mm, don't. It makes you a slave to capitalism. I-I still dream about making money, though.
Beth Harmon: So, why are you taking Russian classes if you're a slave to capitalism?
Tim: Mmm. I wanna read Dostoevsky in the original.

Alice Harmon: I think it's the culture. There's no hint of a Protestant ethic in Mexico. They're all Latin Catholics, and they all live in the here and now.
Beth Harmon: You really need to stop reading Alan Watts. It's annoying.

Alice Harmon: You know, perhaps, Beth, you have to work on yourself. Chess is not all there is.
Beth Harmon: It's what I know.
Alice Harmon: My experience has taught me what you know isn't always what's important.
Beth Harmon: And what's important?
Alice Harmon: Living and growing. Living your life.
Beth Harmon: With a sleazy Mexican salesman.
Alice Harmon: Treating yourself. Adventure...

Mr. Shaibel: People like you have a hard time. Two sides of the same coin. You've got your gift… and you've got what it costs.

Mr. Shaibel: Hard to say for you what that will be. You'll have your time in the sun, but for how long? You've got so much anger in you. You'll have to be careful.

Beth Harmon: How old were you when you started playing?
Georgi Girev: Four. I was district champion at seven. I will be world champion one day.
Beth Harmon: When?
Georgi Girev: In three years.
Beth Harmon: You'll be 16 in three years. If you win… What will you do next?
Georgi Girev: I-I don't understand.
Beth Harmon: If you're world champion at 16… What will you do with the rest of your life?

Russian # 1: Her game is almost all attack. So she doesn't always watch her back.
Russian # 2: When she blunders, she gets angry, and can be dangerous.
Russian # 1: Like all women.
Borgov: She's an orphan. A survivor. She's like us... Losing is not an option for her. Otherwise, what would her life be?

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Coup

The Crown 3×5

Harold Wilson: You know, people like Mountbatten, meddlers, for want of a kinder word, energetic, well-connected meddlers, it's better that they're inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in.

Lord Mountbatten: Are you kicking me out?
Harold Wilson: Well, no, sir, I'm thanking you on behalf of the government, on behalf of the armed forces, on behalf of the whole country for your many years of remarkable service.
Lord Mountbatten: You are. You're kicking me out. Well, there we are! Well... There we are.

Cecil King: It's not absurd. It's obscene. But where one door closes, another opens. "There is special providence in such a fall. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all."

Queen Elizabeth II: Remind me of the year.
Porchey: 1967. Why?
Queen Elizabeth II: 'Cause having seen what I've just seen, one might think it 2067. In terms of technology, and their management of the pasture, and their willingness to embrace new ideas, the Americans aren't just on a different level, they're on a different planet.

Lord Mountbatten: ..... Which brings me to the fifth element. Legitimacy. Now, our government draws its strength from long-established institutions that support it. The courts, body of common law, the constitution. For any action against the state to succeed, you'd have to overthrow these as well. But in a highly evolved democracy such as ours, their authority is sacrosanct. Which is why, gentlemen, a coup d'état in the United Kingdom... doesn't stand a chance. Unless...
Cecil King: Unless...
Lord Mountbatten: Unless we had the support of the one person not yet mentioned. The Crown has at its disposal unique constitutional powers which could still make something like this possible. In 1834, William IV used them to dismiss his government in the face of opposition from the House. And in 1920, the Emergency Powers Act was passed, which gave the sovereign power in certain circumstances to declare a state of emergency by proclamation. Meaning our Queen could dissolve Parliament and appoint a new government, and a prime minister as well. She's also Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. They swear allegiance to her and not to Parliament, so could count on their support to see it through. She is our Caesar.
Cecil King: And you think she might entertain this idea?
Lord Mountbatten: The circumstances are certainly compelling.

Queen Elizabeth II: Somehow today has managed to be one of the most enjoyable days of my life. And at the same time, one of the most depressing.

Queen Elizabeth II: If I tell you something, do you promise it will stay between us?
Porchey: Of course.
Queen Elizabeth II: This is how I'd like to spend all my time. Owning horses, breeding horses, racing horses. It's what makes me truly happy. And I actually think it's what I was born to do, until the other thing came along... that someone else was born to do, that they elected not to do, which meant that first my father, and then I, had to do a job we were never meant to do.
Porchey: Well, you've managed to make it look like the other thing is the only thing you were ever meant to do.
Queen Elizabeth II: Hmm. You're kind. But it isn't. And on days like today... in places like this, in company like this... you get a glimpse of what it all might have been like. The unlived life... and how much happier it might have made me.

Queen Elizabeth II: Not now! Oh, dear. Did I just snap?
Porchey: Slightly.

Lord Mountbatten: Why are you doing this? Why would you protect a man like Wilson?
Queen Elizabeth II: I am protecting the Prime Minister. I am protecting the constitution. I am protecting democracy.
Lord Mountbatten: But if the man at the heart of that democracy threatens to destroy it, are we supposed to just stand by and do nothing?
Queen Elizabeth II: Yes. Doing nothing is exactly what we do, and bide our time, and wait for the people that voted him in to vote him out again, if indeed that is what they decide to do.

Queen Elizabeth II: I'm sure you find it near impossible to do nothing and to not have the role and responsibilities you've always had. You were born to be busy and to lead. But you still have a huge role to play in this family. A father figure to my husband. An uncle and a guide to me. A king to make in Charles, not to mention a brother to your sister... When was the last time you even visited her? Cheered her up? That would be a greater service to the Crown than leading unconstitutional coups. Hmm.

Lord Mountbatten: The four of us. Look at us now. Only two left.
Princess Alice: You're left, not me. I'm on the way out.
Lord Mountbatten: Nonsense.
Princess Alice: There came a moment around the time I turned 70... when it dawned on me that I was no longer a participant, rather a spectator.
Lord Mountbatten: I've discovered that for myself.
Princess Alice: Then it's just a matter of waiting and not getting in the way.

Lord Mountbatten: The situation this country is facing is anything but amusing.
Princess Alice: Oh... Who cares? Honestly. One of the few joys of being as old as we both are is that it's not our problem. It's not really our country, either.
Lord Mountbatten: What are you talking about? Of course it's our country.
Princess Alice: We Battenbergs have no country. Our family might have kings and queens in its ranks, but we're mongrels, too. Part-German, part-Greek, part-nowhere at all.
Lord Mountbatten: Well, this is my country. It gave me a home, it gave me a name, and in return, I've given it my life. And to see it like this breaks my heart.

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Lay Away

Fargo 4×7

Oraetta Mayflower: I'm just here with some early ho, ho, ho. The macaroon, you said. Now, I thought it was a French cookie, but not so, it turns out. Italian, in origin. Born, like all divinities, from the monastery. Chocolate, vanilla, strawberry. I did try my hand at pistachio, but the color alone was a wave off.

Oraetta Mayflower: Oh, come now. You have to try one. We are but human, after all, prone to the whim and allure of such sugary delights. And besides, these delicate creatures, they're meant for the most refined palates, such as your own. So, it really would be an honor...

Oraetta Mayflower: Mmm. Oh, vanilla. My favorite... And if it's not the best macaroon you ever ate, I'll hang up my apron.

Dr. David Harvard: Extraordinary.

Dick 'Deafy' Wickware: That's like Jonah saying he heard there's a big fish out there somewhere.

Dick 'Deafy' Wickware: What do you say, cowboy? Want to go in, guns blazing, take 'em down together?
Odis Weff: I, uh... I...
Dick 'Deafy' Wickware: Eh, relax. They'd chew us up for sure. And yet... Are you familiar with the blood atonement?... "And now, behold, I speak unto the Church. Thou shalt not kill, and he that kills shall not have forgiveness in this world, nor in the world to come. And again, I say, thou shalt not kill, but he that killeth shall die."

Buel Cannon: You ever go to the zoo?
Constant Calamita: Sometime.
Buel Cannon: Hmm. You see the mama lion and her cubs?.. You think she's in that cage for her protection? To be fair, it's what we call a rhetorical question. Now get the fuck out of here!

Odis Weff: Hey, you know you girls are wanted, right?
Zelmare Roulette: Silly boy. That's what girls are.
Swanee Capps: Everybody wants us, but we ain't to be had.
Odis Weff: You're gonna get yourselves killed staying here.
Swanee Capps: Got to die someplace.

Loy Cannon: Elevate, don't denigrate. That's what I tell 'em... My kids.

Loy Cannon: Every country has its own type of criminal. In America, we got the confidence man. Snake oil salesman, grifter. He don't rob you as much as trick you into robbing yourself. See, 'cause in America, people want to believe. They got that dream... And a dreamer, you can fleece.

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Doubled Pawns

The Queen's Gambit 1×3

Alma Wheatley: I asked for a pleasant room, and I believe they gave me one.

Beth Harmon: What about Russia?
Matt: The Soviets are murder. They eat Americans for breakfast there. I don't think there's been an American with a prayer against them in 20 years.
Mike: It's like ballet. They pay people to play chess.

Alma Wheatley: Beth… I was thinking… Perhaps you could give me 10%, as an agent's commission?
Beth Harmon: ... Let's make it 15%. Which would be 49 dollars and 54 cents.
Alma Wheatley: They told me at Methuen you were marvelous at math...

Miss Jean Blake: So, can you tell the readers of Life how it feels? I mean, to be a girl among all those men?
Beth Harmon: I don't mind it.
Miss Jean Blake: Isn't it intimidating? I mean, when I was a girl, I wasn't allowed to be competitive. I played with dolls.
Beth Harmon: Chess isn't always competitive.
Miss Jean Blake: No, but you play to win.
Beth Harmon: Yes, but chess can also be...
Miss Jean Blake: What?
Beth Harmon: Beautiful.

Miss Jean Blake: Do you imagine that you saw the king as a father, and the queen as a mother? I mean, one to attack, one to protect?
Beth Harmon: They're just pieces. And it was the board I noticed first.
Miss Jean Blake: The board?
Beth Harmon: Yes. It's an entire world of just 64 squares. I feel… Safe in it. I can control it, I can dominate it. And it's predictable. So, if I get hurt, I only have myself to blame.

Benny Watts: Your problem is your queen knight.

Beth Harmon: It was brutal. It's the kind of thing I did to other people.

Beth Harmon: I'd been thinking about doubled pawns.
Alma Wheatley: You were thinking about winning. What did you do?
Beth Harmon: I needed a counterthreat. A move that would stop him in his tracks, but there wasn't any. I spent half an hour studying the board, and decided that Benny's move was even sounder than I thought. I thought maybe I could trade my way out of it if he attacked too fast, but… He was careful. I had to retreat, but he kept coming. I wanted to scream.

Alma Wheatley: You can't finesse everything all the time. Nobody can.
Beth Harmon: You don't know anything about chess.
Alma Wheatley: I know what it feels like to lose.
Beth Harmon: Yeah, I bet you do.
Alma Wheatley: And now you do, too...

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6 Days (2017)

John Mac: And, Rusty, mate, aggression's good. Control's the key. Yeah?

John Mac: This is how it will go down, mark my words. Mrs. Thatcher's gone in for a fight.

John Mac: Maggie's government's hanging by their tits... and it's Lance Corporal Rusty Firmin who's got a hold of them.
Rusty Firmin: Just don't shoot the fucking hostages, John.

William Whitelaw: Colonel Rose? She wants the world and the British people... to see how this government deals with terrorism.

Dellow: This is a request from their colonel. Keep Salim talking during the assault. If they haven't got their leader, it might help.
Max Vernon: What are you saying, sir? You want me to help kill them?
Dellow: Oh, no. I want you to save the hostages.
Max Vernon: .... What am I supposed to offer them?
Dellow: The world now, for all we care.

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Exchanges

The Queen's Gambit 1×2

Beth Harmon: I'm gonna stay awake as long as I can, reading my book, learning the Sicilian Defense. There's 57 pages about it in the book, with 170 lines stemming from P to QB4. I'm gonna memorize them and play through them all in my mind.
Jolene: Poor mind...

Beth Harmon: You didn't see it, did you?
Jolene: Watch who you go accusing. I got no use for no book like that. Anyway, you don't need no book. Just say, "Yes, sir," and "Yes, ma'am," and you'll do all right. Tell them you're grateful to be in a Christian home like theirs. Maybe they'll put a TV in your room.

Matt: What's your rating?
Beth Harmon: I don't have a rating.

Beth Harmon: I want to play the best.
Matt: You have to get a rating before that happens.
Beth Harmon: How do I get a rating?
Matt: You play 30 games in USCF tournaments, then wait four months. That's how you get a rating.
Beth Harmon: That's too long.

Alma Wheatley: Be a good girl and get that little bottle of green pills by my bedside. My tranquility needs to be refurbished.

Alma Wheatley: I just didn't have the faintest idea that people made money playing chess.
Beth Harmon: There's tournaments with bigger prizes than that.
Alma Wheatley: How much bigger?
Beth Harmon: Thousands of dollars.
Alma Wheatley: Goodness.

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Chapter 9: The Marshal

The Mandalorian 2×1

Gor Koresh: You know this is no place for a child.
The Mandalorian: Wherever I go, he goes.

Gor Koresh: Do you gamble, Mando?
The Mandalorian: Not when it can be avoided.

Gor Koresh: All right, stop, stop! I'll tell you where he is. But you must promise that you won't kill me.
The Mandalorian: I promise you will not die by my hand.

Peli Motto: Come here, you little womp rat... How much do you want for it? Just kidding. But not really. You know, if this thing ever divides or buds, I will gladly pay for the offspring.

Cobb Vanth: Weequay, two snorts of spotchka.

Cobb Vanth: What am I supposed to do with this?
The Mandalorian: You drink it.
Cobb Vanth: It stinks.
The Mandalorian: Do you want their help?
Cobb Vanth: Not if I have to drink this.

Cobb Vanth: What's the plan?
The Mandalorian: Take care of the Child.
Cobb Vanth: What are you gonna do?
The Mandalorian: I don't know, but wish me luck.

Cobb Vanth: I hope our paths cross again.
The Mandalorian: As do I.

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The One Where Ross and Rachel Take a Break

Friends 3×15

Phoebe: Hi. I need an atlas. I need an atlas.
Monica: Why? Do you have a report due?
Phoebe: I have a date with this diplomat I met... while I was giving free massages outside the U.N. And I don't know where his country is.
Monica: Okay, let's start with the free massages at the U.N.
Phoebe: Oh, it's my new thing. I figure, bodies at peace make peace.
Monica: Wow. You might just get the first Nobel Prize in rubbing.

Monica: So, Pheebs, what's this guy like?
Phoebe: Um... Well, he's very... dashing, you know? And, um, very, very sophisticated. And he doesn't speak English... but according to his translator, he totally gets me.

Monica: So you had fun, huh?
Phoebe: Yeah. Except for, you know, when you're on a date... and you're getting along really great... but the guy's translator keeps getting in the way?
Monica: No.

Joey: Just in case, we should come up with a set of ground rules.
Chandler: Yeah. For sure.
Joey: Okay. You probably want the first one to be: "Never open your eyes. " You know? Because you don't want to be doing something... and then look up, right? And see something that you don't want to be seeing.
Chandler: Yeah. Good call. Nice.
Joey: Hold it. Hold it. What if my eyes are closed, and... And my hand is out there...
Chandler: Aah! Okay, eyes open at all times.

Joey: Oh, hey. How do we decide where we, ahem... you know, each would, ahem, you know... be?
Chandler: Right. Right. Well, you know, we could flip for it.
Joey: I guess. But, like, what's heads and what's tails?
Chandler: Well, if you don't know that, then I don't want to do this with you.

Chandler: I thought tonight was your big anniversary dinner.
Ross: Yeah, a little change of plans. Uh, we're gonna break up instead.

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Openings

The Queen's Gambit 1×1

Helen Deardorff: I know that, at this moment, all you're feeling is loss. But after grief brings you low, prayer and faith will lift you high. High enough for you to see a new path for yourself... I think, Elizabeth, you're going to find a much different life here. A better one than you might have had. And I'm sure that you and I are going to be good friends.

Jolene: The green ones are the best.
Beth Harmon: What are they?
Mr. Fergussen: Vitamins. Magic vitamins.

Jolene: What's the last thing they said to you before they died?.. I ask everybody that. We get some really fun answers.
Alice Harmon: "Close your eyes."
Beth Harmon: I don't remember.

Mr. Fergussen: Green's to even your disposition. Orange and brown is for building a strong body. Take 'em both.

Mr. Shaibel: Girls do not play chess.

Mr. Shaibel: Let's play a game...

Mr. Shaibel: Those things are called openings.
Beth Harmon: Is that one of them?
Mr. Shaibel: Yes. The Queen's Gambit.

Beth Harmon: The squares have names?
Mr. Shaibel: If you play well, they have names.

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The Key

Fear the Walking Dead 6×4

John: There's one thing [my dad] told me that I carry particularly close. He said, "John, people deserve to live in a world where they know which way is up, but they can't know that until someone helps 'em know it." That's why he became a cop. Same reason I did.

Virginia: I appreciate if we kept this quiet. Place is only as safe as people feel it is.
John: Well, makin' people feel safe is good. Actually makin' them safe, that's better.

Jacob: He chose life, even if it cost him the one he was living.
John: Yeah. That's the choice I'm makin'.

Morgan: What the hell do you unlock?

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Роберт Гэлбрейт — Смертельная белизна

<< На службе зла (Корморан Страйк — 3)

Корморан Страйк — 4

 “ Если бы пара лебедей плыла по темно-зеленой глади озера бок о бок, эта фотография стала бы венцом карьеры свадебного фотографа. ...

&  Вселенское желание славы таково, что люди, которые приходят к ней случайно или невольно, начинают тщетно ожидать сочувствия.

&  – В любом случае...
     – ...сначала средства, потом мотив.

&  Необдуманный, машинальный ответ – явный признак паники.

&  В военной полиции его приучили классифицировать результаты допросов и факты по трем категориям: люди, места, предметы.

&  Это была старая как мир, прозрачная уловка: «Что-что?» – типичный вопрос человека, который опасается, что сказал лишнее.

&  Жизнь показывала, что самая великая, самая беззаветная любовь достается самым недостойным людишкам, и это, конечно, должно было бы служить утешением для всех.

&  В самом деле: проживая какой-нибудь отрезок времени, всегда ли мы понимаем, что он способен бесповоротно изменить весь ход нашей жизни?

&  Вероятно, думала она, это как в армии: напряжение всех сил и дух товарищества помогают тебе сосредоточиться на чем угодно, кроме страшной реальности, которая ждет впереди.

  ... Наклонив голову, чтобы дождь не хлестал в лицо, она даже не посмотрела в сторону величественного здания, которое выходило залитыми дождем окнами на полноводную реку и обычно приковывало взгляды входной дверью с выгравированной парой лебедей.”

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Bubbikins

The Crown 3×4

Queen Elizabeth II: And your own position?
Harold Wilson: Mine, ma'am?
Queen Elizabeth II: Yes, Prime Minister, yours. You hold the casting vote.
Harold Wilson: Well, I've always been an ardent supporter of the monarchy, as the record shows. But when it comes to a plea of poverty from the husband of the richest woman in the world and an appeal to the British taxpayer for a pay rise at a time like this, even I find myself... conflicted.

Greek Cop: There's nothing fake about her, you idiot. She's a real nun. And a real princess... Princess Alice of Greece and Denmark was born in Windsor Castle. Her great-uncle was the Tsar of Russia, her great-grandmother was Queen Victoria, and her son is married to the Queen of England.

Servant: His Royal Highness the Duke of...
Queen Elizabeth II: Not me, I'm afraid. I'm "darling" or "cabbage." "Sweetie" is someone else.

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: I know you value your privacy, but I think there's a lot about you that they would like if they... if they got a chance. The fact that, generally, you're good value for money.
Princess Anne: Like a pair of long-lasting boots?
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: Is there anything one loves more in life than a pair of long-lasting boots?

Queen Elizabeth II: I'm afraid my husband is quite taken by the idea of this documentary. And while I might not understand television, I do understand marriage, and when it is important to let someone shine.

Lord Snowdon: It's a... it's a documentary film... It means, um... no acting. No artifice. Just the real thing. Like one of those wildlife films.
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: Oh, I like those.
Princess Margaret: Yes, except this time, we are the endangered species.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: Yes, exactly. It will follow all of us in our daily lives to prove to everyone out there what we in here already know.
Queen Elizabeth II: What's that?
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: Well, how hard we all work. And what good value we represent. How much we deserve the taxpayers' money.

Princess Margaret: We are being filmed watching television. That people might watch us watching television on their own television sets at home. This really is plumbing new depths of banality.

Princess Margaret: This is nothing like a normal evening. If it was a normal evening, we'd all be on our own in sad isolation in individual palaces. It wouldn't be crowded like this. This is like some kind of nightmare Christmas.

Harold Wilson: I like to think I understand television as well as anyone in the country. I owe my political life to it. And that's because I've learned, over time, how to do it. How to make it work for me.
Queen Elizabeth II: Perhaps the royal family is not best suited to it.
Harold Wilson: Television is good for normal people.
Queen Elizabeth II: But that was the whole point. To show everyone that behind palace gates, we are perfectly normal people.
Harold Wilson: No, ma'am, you're not normal.
Queen Elizabeth II: Aren't we? We wake up in the morning, go to bed at night. We work, get tired, get colds. We have uncles that embarrass us, Christmases to endure. We are perfectly normal.
Harold Wilson: But people don't consider you to be and... if I may say, and this is where it gets a little complicated... they don't want you to be normal.
Queen Elizabeth II: Well, what do they want? Tell me. It's all any of us want to know. What do you want from us?
Harold Wilson: Well, the truth is, we don't know what we want. Other than we want you to be ideal.
Queen Elizabeth II: An ideal... No human being is ideal. Only God is ideal. Which is why I'd favor the royal family being kept out of sight, out of mind, for our own survival and sanity. But the thing is we can't be hidden away. We have to be in full view all the time.
Harold Wilson: So, what's the answer?
Queen Elizabeth II: The best we've come up with so far is ritual and mystery. Because it keeps us hidden while still in plain sight. The smoke and the mirrors, the mystery and the protocol, it's not there to keep us apart. It is there to keep us alive.

Princess Alice: Now, Bubbikins, you mentioned faithlessness. How is your faith?
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: Dormant.
Princess Alice: What?
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: Dormant.
Princess Alice: That's not good. Let this be a mother's gift... to her child. The one piece of advice... Find yourself a faith. It helps. No... Not just helps. It's everything.

Michael Adeane: There is one more thing, ma'am. The royal family documentary has had a great deal of interest from overseas broadcasters. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, CBS in the United States...
Queen Elizabeth II: No.
Michael Adeane: Ma'am?
Queen Elizabeth II: I don't think so.
Michael Adeane: Right. I gather the BBC plans to repeat it in three weeks' time.
Queen Elizabeth II: I don't think that either. As a matter of fact, I think it best if that documentary were never seen again, anywhere, by anyone. Can I leave that with you?
Michael Adeane: Yes, ma'am.

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The One Where Monica and Richard Are Just Friends

Friends 3×13

Monica: Oh, my God. Richard?! Wow. Your lip went bald.

Dr. Burke: I miss this.
Monica: Me too.
Dr. Burke: So you wanna get a hamburger or something?
Monica: Aw, um, I don't know if that's a good idea.
Dr. Burke: No. Just friends. I won't grope you. I promise.
Monica: Yeah, I think it's too soon.
Dr. Burke: No, it's not too soon. I had lunch at 11.

Rachel: Why do you have a copy of The Shining in your freezer?
Joey: Oh. I was reading it last night and I got scared, so...
Rachel: But, uh, you're safe from it if it's in the freezer?
Joey: Well, safer. I never start reading The Shining... without making sure we got plenty of room in the freezer.

Joey: Haven't you ever read the same book over and over again?
Rachel: Well, um, I guess I read Little Women more than once. But that's a classic. What's so great about The Shining?
Joey: The question should be, Rach, "What is not so great about The Shining?" Okay? And the answer would be, "Nothing. " All right? This is, like, the scariest book ever. I bet it's way better than that classic of yours.

Joey: Uh, now, Rach, these little women... How little are they? I mean, are they, like, scary little?

Monica: So we can be friends who sleep together.
Dr. Burke: Absolutely. This'll just be something we do.
Monica: Like racquetball.
Dr. Burke: Yeah. Sounds smart and healthy to me.
Monica: So, um, just out of, uh, curiosity... um, do you currently have any other racquetball buddies?
Dr. Burke: Just your dad. Although that's actually racquetball.

Joey: Hey, Rach? How you doing with The Shining?
Rachel: Uh, Danny just went into Room 217.
Joey: Ooh. The next part's the best. When that dead lady in the bathtub...
Rachel: No, no, no! Come on.
Ross: You're gonna ruin it.
Joey: All right, I'll talk in code. Remember when the kid sees those two blanks in the hallway?
Ross: Yeah, that's very cool.
Joey: Yeah. Ooh. All blank and no blank makes blank a blank-blank, right?
Ross: Oh, no, no.
Joey: No, the end. When Jack almost kills them all with that blank... but then in the last second they get away.
Rachel: Aw. Joey, I can't believe you just did that.
Chandler: I can't believe she cracked your code.
Rachel: All right, okay. Laurie proposes to Jo and she says no... even though she's still in love with him. And then he ends up marrying Amy.
Joey: Hey. Mine was by accident. All right. The boiler explodes and destroys the hotel and kills the dad.
Rachel: Beth dies.
Joey: Beth...?! Beth dies?!?!
Rachel: Mm-hm.
Joey: Is that true? If I keep reading, is Beth gonna die?....
Ross: No, Beth doesn't die. She doesn't die. Does she, Rachel?
Rachel: What?
Ross: Joey's asking if you've just ruined... the first book he's ever loved that didn't star Jack Nicholson.
Rachel: .... No. She doesn't die.
Joey: Then why would you say that?
Rachel: Because I wanted to hurt you.

Monica: You know what? What if we're friends... who don't see other people?
Dr. Burke: You mean like exclusive friends?
Monica: Why not? I mean, this has been the most amazing week. Would it be so terrible? Even if we were friends who lived together? Or maybe someday, friends who stood up in front of their other friends... and vowed to be friends forever.

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Aberfan

The Crown 3×3

Harold Wilson: Now we have to be careful. This could turn nasty very quickly.
Andrew: Come on, Harold. This is an accident caused by unprecedented rainfall. It isn't political.
Harold Wilson: Everything is political, Andrew.

Harold Wilson: Now... given all this, I was hoping I might persuade you to go...
Queen Elizabeth II: One of the most unfortunate things about being sovereign I have discovered is that you paralyze virtually any situation you walk into. The very last thing emergency and rescue services need when they are working against the clock is a queen turning up.
Harold Wilson: I'm not sure I agree. Children have died. A community is devastated.
Queen Elizabeth II: What precisely would you have me do?
Harold Wilson: Well, comfort people.
Queen Elizabeth II: Put on a show? The Crown doesn't do that.

Martin Charteris: Without wishing to prompt, Your Majesty, you may wish to consider that this is Wales, not England. A display of emotion would not just be considered appropriate, it's expected.

Harold Wilson: These meetings are confidential, yes?.. I have never done a day's manual work in my life. Not one. I am an academic, a privileged Oxford don, not a worker. I don't like beer. I prefer brandy. I prefer wild salmon to tinned salmon. Chateaubriand to steak and kidney pie. And I don't like pipe smoking. I far prefer cigars. But cigars are a symbol of capitalist privilege. So, I smoke a pipe, on the campaign trail and on television. Makes me more... approachable.
Queen Elizabeth II: Hmm.
Harold Wilson: Likable. We can't be everything to everyone and still be true to ourselves. We do what we have to do as leaders. That's our job. Our job is to calm more crises than we create. That's our job, and you do it very well indeed. And in a way, your absence of emotion is a blessing. No one needs hysteria from a head of state. And the truth is, we barely need humanity...
Queen Elizabeth II: Prime Minister.
Harold Wilson: Your Majesty.

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Past and Present

Dark 1×3

Claudia Tiedemann 1986: In times like these... one must... face one's own fears. Because the future... the future belongs to the bold. Not to the doubters, those forever stuck in the past.

Ines Kahnwald 1986: Don't cry. Everything will be okay.

Bernd Doppler 1986: There are things that are worth knowing and things worth not knowing, because you can't change them anyway.

Bernd Doppler 1986: What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

Mikkel Nielsen: I come from the future.
Ines Kahnwald 1986: What did you say?
Mikkel Nielsen: I come here from the future.

Hannah Kahnwald 1986: If the world ended today, and everything started anew, what would you wish for?
Ulrich Nielsen 1986: That's easy. A world without Winden.

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The One with All the Jealousy

Friends 3×12

Rachel: Does everybody hate these shoes?
Chandler: Oh, yeah. But I don't think anybody's gonna focus on that as long as you wear that towel dress.

Ross: She's having lunch with him? Lunch with him?! You should've seen the hug he gave her when she got the job. And he's really good-looking. What am I gonna do?
Chandler: You don't do anything.
Joey: Keep it inside.
Chandler: Learn how to hide your feelings.
Joey: Don't cry out loud.

Ross: What's Mark doing answering your phone?
Rachel: Oh, he's just goofing around.
Ross: Oh, that's funny. Why isn't he goofing around in his own office?
Rachel: Ha, ha. Honey, this is his office too. I told you, we're Joanna's two assistants.
Ross: Why does Joanna need two assistants? How lazy is she?

Chandler: Three years of modern dance with Twyla Tharp? Five years with the American Ballet Theatre?
Joey: Hey, everybody lies on their résumé, okay?

Ross: Are you jealous?
Rachel: No. You know, I just don't see why she has to play with you, that's all. I mean, doesn't she, you know... have any other stripper-mom friends of her own?
Ross: You are totally jealous.
Rachel: Ugh. I'm not jealous, all right? This is about... um, people feeling certain things... you know, about... strippers.
Ross: Oh.
Rachel: And, you know... And, um... I... Ugh.
Ross: Honey, I love you too. Bye.
Rachel: Wait, wait, wait. ..... Well, there's a kiss he won't forget for a few hours, you know?
Chandler: Yeah... Either that or you just turned him on and sent him off to a stripper.

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Margaretology

The Crown 3×2

Tommy Lascelles: As His Majesty the King has not yet produced a male successor, nor do we at this stage expect one, the decision has been taken to start preparing you in earnest for the Crown. From this moment on, you will no longer be the heir presumptive, but the heir apparent, and your life will be quite different.
     You will not be able to travel unaccompanied, nor to socialize as freely. Your father, the King, had little or no time to prepare for the throne, which was thrust upon him. We will not be caught out again.
     The Crown is not just an ornament to be worn. It is a privilege and a burden, which comes with formidable expectations and responsibilities.

Princess Elizabeth: I don't think I can do it.
Princess Margaret: I could.
Princess Elizabeth: I know you could.
Princess Margaret: I'd love every minute. To be on every coin, on every banknote, to be the most famous woman in the world. I'd be so very good at it. Wearing a big crown, giving everyone orders.
Princess Elizabeth: Yes.

Lord Snowdon: Elder sister, younger sister. Number one and number two.
Princess Margaret: Who's number one?
Lord Snowdon: You. Of course. A natural number one whose tragedy it is to have been born number two.
Princess Margaret: Hmm. That is my burden.
Lord Snowdon: She knows it, too.
Princess Margaret: Yes, I think she does. That's her burden.

Harold Wilson: Uh... I fear that the President may have taken against me for what he sees as my failure to support him over Vietnam. And I wondered... in the past, the royal family has been extremely helpful in keeping the special relationship afloat. And given the... predicament the country finds itself in economically...
Queen Elizabeth II: You'd like us to roll out the red carpet. Make a bit of a fuss...
Harold Wilson: ... Please.

Lyndon B. Johnson: Don't tell me, everybody's pissed.
W. Marvin Watson: The general view seems to be that if you have a quarrel with the Prime Minister, that's one thing, but no one gets to insult the Crown, sir. It's like, uh, treason or something.

Harold Wilson: It would be a political engagement of the utmost delicacy.
Queen Elizabeth II: For which you want to send Princess Margaret?
Harold Wilson: Yes, well, that had been my reaction. But her trip to America has been a terrific success.
Queen Elizabeth II: So I gather...
Harold Wilson: So, will you ask her?
Queen Elizabeth II: If those are my instructions...
Harold Wilson: ... Please.

Lord Snowdon: It's not easy, sometimes.
Princess Margaret: What is not easy?
Lord Snowdon: Being second fiddle to a pygmy princess.
Princess Margaret: Don't talk to me about being a second fiddle! I get so little limelight. No, it's the price I pay for the sister I have.

Princess Margaret: You spent three years as Vice President. I've spent my whole life as Vice Queen. Except that came out wrong, I didn't mean I'm a... "vice queen."

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: Do you remember I told you once I got drunk with that god-awful monster Tommy Lascelles?
Queen Elizabeth II: Hmm.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: Well, that night he shared with me his theory about the House of Windsor. I've never repeated it to anyone since.
Queen Elizabeth II: Go on.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: He asked me to imagine a mythological creature. A Reichsadler. A polycephalus, a two-headed eagle. For the purposes of this conversation, I want you to think of it as representing us. This family. Your family.

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: There have always been the dazzling Windsors and the dull ones. Your father...
Queen Elizabeth II: A saint.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: But dull. Sorry. Your grandfather, too.
Queen Elizabeth II: George V?
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: Deadly dull. At the height of the Great War, when the... the Tsar and the Kaiser and the Emperor of Austria were dazzling the world, where was he? He was sticking stamps in his album. His wife...
Queen Elizabeth II: Queen Mary, wonderful.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: Ditchwater. And so it goes, through George V to Queen Victoria and back. An uninterrupted line of stolid, turgid dreariness.
Queen Elizabeth II: Culminating in me?
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: Well, yes, but... alongside that dull, dutiful, reliable, heroic strain runs another.
Queen Elizabeth II: The dazzling, the brilliant, the individualistic...
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: And... the dangerous. And so, for every Victoria, you get an Edward VII. For every George V, you get a Prince Eddy. For every George VI, you get an Edward VIII. For every Lilibet...
Queen Elizabeth II: You get a Margaret.

Tommy Lascelles: The principle of undisturbed hereditary descent is a pillar of stability and perpetuity for the nation. Princess Elizabeth's destiny is to accede to the throne. Yours is to serve and support. I would urge you to accept your position in life... and to dismiss forthwith any childish notions about rewriting the rule books that it might better suit your character. We all have a role to play. Princess Elizabeth's will be center-stage, and yours, ma'am, will be from the wings.

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Unhinged (2020)

Rachel: Eight miles, you know. That's it. What takes ten minutes on a Sunday, takes an hour every other day... and wrecks your career. You know why? Too many cars. Too many cars and too many people.
Kyle: Didn't you also oversleep?
Rachel: Yes. Yes. And I overslept.

Man: That's where we are in this world today. We seem to have developed a fundamental inability to apologize to anyone, for anything.

Man: I don't even think you really know what a bad day is. But you're gonna find out. You hear me, miss? You're gonna fucking learn.

Rachel: What do you want?
Tom Cooper: No, it's not what I want. It's what I need. And I need you to learn what a bad day really is, and I need you to learn how to say you're sorry.

Rachel: Me. Me, okay? I choose me. I choose me!
Man: Well, that's very noble, but you can't choose yourself.
Rachel: Why not?
Man: Because that would defeat the fucking purpose, Rachel. Give me a name. Make a choice. Who are you gonna kill next?

Man: I'm not here for your money, Fred. I'm here to make your sister realize that her words and actions have consequences.

Rachel: Here's your fucking courtesy tap!

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The One Where Chandler Can't Remember Which Sister

Friends 3×11

Mary Angela: What are you doing?
Chandler: I'm taking my ex-girlfriend off my speed dialer.
Mary Angela: Aw.
Chandler: No, no, no, it's a good thing. Why must we dial so speedily anyway? Why must we rush through life? Why can't we savor the precious moments?-- Those are some huge breasts you have.

Rachel: ...and there's an opening in his department. So I gave him my phone number... and he's gonna call me this weekend to see if he can get me an interview.
Ross: Wow. Ha, ha.
Rachel: I know.
Ross: What, so this guy's helping you for no apparent reason?
Rachel: Uh-huh.
Ross: And he's a total stranger?
Rachel: Yeah. His name is, um, Mark something.
Ross: Ah. Sounds like Mark Something wants to have some sex.
Rachel: What?
Ross: I'm just saying, why else would he just swoop in out of nowhere for no reason?
Rachel: To be nice?
Ross: Hey, Joey, are men ever nice to strange women for no reason?
Joey: No, only for sex.
Ross: Thank you.

Chandler: Maybe he's just jumping on a pogo stick and he really likes it... Maybe the pogo stick likes it too.

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Olding

The Crown 3×1

— Everyone at the Post Office is delighted with the new profile, ma'am, which they feel to be an elegant reflection of Her Majesty's transition from young woman to...
Queen Elizabeth II: Old bat?
— ...mother of four and settled sovereign.
Queen Elizabeth II: Hmm.

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: A friend of mine at the lunch club. He had a whole theory about Wilson being turned while on a trade mission to Russia. Said he even had a KGB code name. "Olding."

Queen Elizabeth II: So, to that end, what would you say constitutes early modern?
Anthony Blunt: The end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Roughly late 15th century to late 18th century.
Queen Elizabeth II: And what era are we in now, do you suppose? The frighteningly modern?
Anthony Blunt: I think that all depends on the result of the general election today.

Queen Elizabeth II: You think Mr. Wilson has a chance?
Winston Churchill: I'm afraid I do. I think we must face the cold wind of socialism blowing through this land once more.

Queen Elizabeth II: I can't imagine what that would be like... having a prime minister one didn't trust... when one thinks what it was like with you...
Winston Churchill: I was a terrible bully.
Queen Elizabeth II: You were my guardian angel. The roof over my head. The spine in my back. The iron in my heart. You were the compass that steered and directed me. Not just me, all of us. Where would Great Britain be without its... greatest Briton? God bless you, Winston.

Queen Elizabeth II: So, not two different people?
Anthony Blunt: Two different versions of the same person.
Queen Elizabeth II: Which might as well be two different people. The idealized version of themselves they want to be seen, and the less desirable person they really are, hidden away. There's even a word for it: "palimpsest."
Anthony Blunt: That generally applies to manuscripts, ma'am. "Pentimento" for paintings.
Queen Elizabeth II: Pentimento... Well, I think I speak for everyone here when I say none of us will be able to trust or look at anything in the same way ever again.

Queen Elizabeth II: Are you an art man?
Harold Wilson: Art?
Queen Elizabeth II: Yes, art. Paintings.
Harold Wilson: Well, actually, no. No. Uh... I'm an economist, a statistician at heart. I'm happiest with numbers. You can trust numbers. They're honest. There's no mystery or deception or allegory. You know where you stand. What you see is what you get. And I prefer things that way.
Queen Elizabeth II: I quite agree.

Anthony Blunt: We all tell ourselves all sorts of things to make sense of the past. So much so that our fabrications, if we tell them to ourselves often enough, become the truth. In our minds and everyone else's.

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The Child in Time (2017)

Julie: I want you to give up, because you always let me down.

Stephen Lewis: Is it always going to be like this... between us? Yes, of course it is. It has to be...
Julie: Yes, it will always be like this. But maybe that doesn't have to be a bad thing. A bad thing happened and we've got to live with it.
Stephen Lewis: Move on?
Julie: Is that possible? Do we want to do that?

Thelma: Why can't it be real? I mean, we all look older, but how many of us actually grow up?

Stephen's Mother: ...you have to keep on loving her. Loving her is different to missing her.

Stephen Lewis: I want to remember everything about you. Everything.

Julie: It's hard to accept that we're helpless, but we are. And all we can do is be here, ready. And sane.

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Epidemiya (aka To The Lake) #1.2

Leonid: Don't worry, I'll be quick. "One leg here and the other there," as Anna Karenina said.

Polina: Really nice escape. No weapons, no camping gear, no transport. Nothing.

Anya: Let's stay humane, Ira.

Marina: Leonid... Is this how it's gonna be from now on?

Igor Yevgenyevich: Health is the most important thing now. That and having your family around.

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Lies

Dark 1×2

Jonas Kahnwald: Do you miss him?
Hannah Kahnwald: I think I miss a notion of him. I don't know who he really was. Maybe we never know that. What a person is really like.

Katharina Nielsen: Whatever happens, you'll tell me the truth. Don't lie to me. Whatever it is.

Katharina: Who is that?
Ulrich: The Grim Reaper. Can't you tell?

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Camp Elegance

Fargo 4×6

Josto Fadda: You see, I'm not just fighting a few Italians. I'm fighting 400 years of history. I'm fighting a mindset.

Josto Fadda: You like those dolls, huh? You collect 'em? Uh... How you think they feel? Being owned. Imagine if these dolls rose up and became citizens of this apartment. Imagine if they asked for equal rights. You might say, "Man, fuck these dolls. I'm gonna crush these dolls. Thinking they all human. Thinking they equal." 'Cause that's your mindset.

Josto Fadda: Look, maybe you feel like these Italians own you. But you got no idea what it feels like to be actual owned. To be property. Until now. 'Cause I own you.

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Mystery Man

The Crown 2×10

Stephen Ward: People come to me with necks, backs, elbows, knees... Very often it's nothing to do with the symptoms. The real cause is something else.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: Such as? Ah...
Stephen Ward: Tension. Emotional strain.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: Oh...
Stephen Ward: Unresolved conflicts of one form or another.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: Oh...
Stephen Ward: There.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: Oh, and how does one go about treating those?
Stephen Ward: Well, first by identifying them, recognizing them, and then by treating not just the physical symptoms but, uh, well, changing one's whole lifestyle.

Princess Margaret: I see. The whole nasty, jealous circus, cooped up in this ridiculous compound, furious because we got the largest apartment.
Queen Elizabeth II: No one's furious about the apartment.
Princess Margaret: Incandescent. Positively constipated with fury.
Queen Elizabeth II: They're furious about the noise.
Princess Margaret: Because it represents rejuvenation, modernization and change.
Queen Elizabeth II: No, because it's inconsiderate, selfish and deafening.

Dorothy Macmillan: At one point they even turned on the Queen.
Harold Macmillan: The Queen?
Dorothy Macmillan: It was really very funny. .... And then they came on to you. ....
Harold Macmillan: Was it cruel?
Dorothy Macmillan: Not cruel, no.
Harold Macmillan: Were people laughing?
Dorothy Macmillan: Yes. ...
Harold Macmillan: ... Did you?
Dorothy Macmillan: Yes. You should go. See what's happening to your bloody country.

Queen Elizabeth II: You're coming too?
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: Coming? Uh, no. I'm going.
Queen Elizabeth II: Where?
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: St. Moritz.
Queen Elizabeth II: How mysterious.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: You?
Queen Elizabeth II: Balmoral.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: Separate countries.
Queen Elizabeth II: How apposite.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: What does that mean?
Queen Elizabeth II: Appropriate, suitable, fitting, apt.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: I know what "apposite" means. I mean, what are you trying to say?
Queen Elizabeth II: Oh, don't worry about that. You just enjoy the mountains, dear.

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: What are you doing here?
Princess Margaret: I could ask you the same question in reverse. What were you not doing here?

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: This is most unlike you.
Queen Elizabeth II: On the contrary. This is the most like me I've been in years.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: I understand the Prime Minister's resignation and all that.
Queen Elizabeth II: It's not just the Prime Minister.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: And your mother. And your sister, and the children. And the extended family. And the Church and the Commonwealth and the country. The whole ghastly relentlessness of it all. The fact it never stops, not for a minute. I understand all that.

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: There are two types of people in life. Those whom one imagines to be trustworthy and reliable, who turn out to be treacherous and weak... Like Mr. Macmillan. And those who appear to be complex and difficult, who turn out to be more dependable than anyone thought... Like me.

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: I know exactly what my job is. Your father made it perfectly clear. You are my job. You are the essence of my duty. So here I am. Liegeman of life and limb. In, not out.

Queen Elizabeth II: Philip. We're both adults. And I think we're both realists. We both know that marriage is a challenge, under any circumstances. So I can understand... if sometimes, in order to let off steam, in order to stay in... you need to do what you need to do. I can look the other way.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: Yes, I know you can look the other way. You've raised looking the other way into an art form. I'm saying I don't want you to. You can look this way. I'm yours. In. And not because you've given me a title, not because we've come to an agreement. But because I want to be. Because I love you.

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