Glee 1x2

Showmance

Season 1, Episode 2

& Will Schuester: Baby, I have some bad news.
   Terri Schuester: A wealthy relative died?


& Jacob Ben Israel: I think I'm gonna kill myself. I'm serious. We're bombarded with sexual imagery every day... Beer ads, those short skirts. I'm supposed to be surrounded by temptation*... Not be able to do anything about it.
   Noah: Are you kidding? Those skirts are crunchy toast. Santana Lopez bent over in hers the other day... and I swear I could see her ovaries*.


& Quinn Fabray: God bless the perv that invented these. Remember the power motto, girls.
   [All Together]: It's all about the teasing*, and not about the pleasing.

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& Rachel: Did you know that most studies have demonstrated that celibacy doesn't work in high schools? Our hormones are driving us too crazy to abstain*. The second we start telling ourselves that there's no room for compromise, we act out. The only way to deal with teen sexuality is to be prepared. That's what contraception is for.
   Quinn: Don't you dare mention the "C" word!
   Rachel: You want to know a dirty little secret... that none of them want you to know? Girls want sex just as much as guys do.
   Jacob: I-Is that accurate?


& Principal Figgins: I took the liberty of calling my pastor to provide a list of family-friendly songs that reflect our community's values. Your kids can only perform these preapproved musical selections.
   Will: But all these songs have either "Jesus" or "balloons" in the title...
   Principal: But there are also songs about the circus.



--Dict:
temptation — искушение; соблазн
ovaries — яичники
teasing — дразнить
abstain — воздерживаться


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My Name Is Earl 3x20

Girl Earl

Season 3, Episode 20

& Joy: Everybody's got some little annoying habits, Earl, even you. Like when you're thinkin'. You always raise just one eyebrow. I hate that.


& Earl: The first stop in repaying Joel was to visit Joy's tipped-over trailer... to get back his carpet and his TV.
   Billie: Excuse me. Just curious, but how do you use the bathroom in here?
   Darnell: Joy put a seat on the exhaust fan.
   Joy: Neighbors hate it, but it works like a dream.


& Randy: This carpet's got a lot of memories, Earl. Remember when I took it up on the roof and tried to fly on it?
   Earl: Hard to forget. You cracked your head open... and for three weeks, you thought you were president of an insurance company. You tried to fire me.
   Randy: Nothin' personal, Earl. You just weren't making the sales. And Shirley from Accounting hated you. Man, brains are funny. You shake 'em around hard enough... and it's like, "Whoa, who's steering this ship?"

---

& Joel: I'll never be a champion, but I can make one. Work with me, and we'll win the national bagger title together.
   Earl: Me? But I never even graduated high school.
   Joel: That doesn't matter. With my knowledge and your incredible ability to grab things? We could do this, Earl. Together, we'll be unstoppable.


& Billie: ... And you know what I was thinking when you were standing up there?.. You should lose the mustache. ... Yep. You need to shave it.
   Earl: I don't like her.
   Randy: She's gotta go.


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_ А счастье казалось так близко...

Glee 1x1

Pilot

Season 1, Episode 1

& Rachel Berry: Nowadays, being anonymous is worse than being poor. Fame is the most important thing in our culture now. And if there's one thing I've learned, it's that no one's just gonna hand it to you.


& Noah 'Puck' Puckerman: Hey, what's going on?
   Finn Hudson: Oh, it's... I just... I have to miss practice Saturday afternoon. It's, uh, my mom. I gotta help her cook and, uh, do things.
   Noah: Why?
   Finn: She just had, uh, surgery.
   Noah: What kind of surgery?
   Finn: Uh, well, she, uh, had to have her prostate out.
   Noah: Man, that's a tough break.

---

& Noah: We got that wheelchair kid inside. We're gonna flip it.
   Finn: Isn't that kind of dangerous?
   Noah: He's already in a wheelchair. Come on, dude. We saved you the first roll.


& Noah: What the hell, dude? I can't believe you're helping out this loser.
   Finn: Don't you get it, man? We're all losers. Everyone in this school. Hell, everyone in this town. Out of all the kids who graduate, maybe half will go to college. And... And two will leave the state to do it. I'm not afraid of being called a loser, 'cause I can accept that that's what I am. But I am afraid of turning my back on something... that actually made me happy for the first time in my sorry life.



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_ Музыкальненько.

My Name Is Earl 3x19

Love Octagon

Season 3, Episode 19

& Catalina: You look like you have some tangles in the back. Would you like me to... Oh, this is nice. Two girls hanging out... brushing each other's hair... like God intended. ...
   Billie: Did you just lick my neck?
   Catalina: Yes. No. Maybe. It was a bug. Did you like it?


& Stuart: Hey, Billie, I just saw the cops outside. We gotta move.
   Billie: Do I have time to get dressed?
   Stuart: Yes. But no bra and panties.

---

& Earl: Billie, karma brought us together for a reason. I went back to my old ways. You went back to your old ways. We both got hit. Karma wants us to be good. But I think we're supposed to be good together.
   Frank: Or we could be bad together. I learned things in prison that will blow your mind.


& Catalina: This isn't the way I thought it would end. I thought it would end with our naked breasts pressed together... our long, smooth legs intertwined.
   Billie: Barf!


& Earl: For the third time, I got hitched* to a woman I hardly knew. But much like fifth grade, I think the third time, I got it right.



--Dict:
hitched — запрягать; прицеплять; привязывать; жениться


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Easy A (2/2)

Beginning

& Olive: Don't stop. Yeah! Don't stop.
   Brandon: It's too much fun.
   Olive: You ready for the grand finale?
   Brandon: Yeah. What?! ... Oh! Oooooh...
   Olive: Oh, yeah! Yeah. ... Come on. Go forth, my son. You're a man now.

o.o Olive & Brandon

& Olive: Maybe this is gonna sound stupid... and, believe me, it's not like I was expecting, you know, fireworks... or a string quartet or anything... but I always thought pretending to lose my virginity would be a little more... I don't know, special? Judy Blume should've prepared me for that.

& Rosemary (Olive's Mom): He seems like a nice kid. He seemed a little incredibly gay.
   Olive: A dyed-in-the-wool homosexual, that boy is.
   Mom: I just want you to know your father and I are totally supportive. We love you no matter what the sexual orientation of your opposite-sex sex partner.


& Dad: You all right, buddy?
   Olive: Yeah.
   Dad: Give them hell.

o.o My name is an anagram

---

& Marianne: Jesus tells us to love everyone. I mean, even the whores and the homosexuals, but it's just so hard. It's so hard because they keep doing it over and over again.


& Olive: Whatever happened to chivalry? Does it only exist in '80s movies? I want John Cusack holding a boombox outside my window. I wanna ride off on a lawn mower with Patrick Dempsey. I want Jake from Sixteen Candles waiting outside the church for me. I want Judd Nelson thrusting his fist into the air because he knows he got me. Just once, I want my life to be like an '80s movie. Preferably one with a really awesome musical number... for no apparent* reason. But, no. No. John Hughes did not direct my life.


& Mr. Griffith: I'm hearing some rumors.
   Olive: Well, those are true. I am considering becoming an existentialist.
   Mr. Griffith: You know what I'm talking about.
   Olive: Jeez. When did teachers become privy* to idle adolescent gossip?
   Mr. Griffith: That would be when everyone is putting everything up on Facebook. I don't know what your generation's fascination* is with documenting your every thought... but I can assure you they're not all diamonds. "Roman is having an okay day and bought a Coke Zero at the gas station. Raise the roof." Who gives a rat's ass?


& Olive: Never underestimate the power of extremists like Marianne. They sense any weakness, they pounce like jungle cats. And the whack pack* just gets bigger and bigger. But at least they have a pack...


& Olive: Do you have a religion section?
   Bookstore salesman: It's over there. Can I help you with something?
   Olive: The Bible.
   Bookstore salesman: That's in bestsellers, right next to Twilight.


& Olive: I... You know what? I'm just gonna... I'm just gonna go check out Judaism because... The Jews and I have a lot in common. Just fashion-wise and stuff.



--Dict:
dyed-in-the-wool = deeply ingrained in the nature of a person or thing.
apparent — очевидный; явный; несомненный
privy — посвященный
fascination — очарование; обаяние; прелесть
whack pack = A group of individuals, usually young males, who are mistakenly under the impression that they are hip or cool.


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!! Inimitable, delicious Emma Stone (Zombieland).

My Name Is Earl 3x18

Killerball

Season 3, Episode 18

& Randy: Hey, Patty. Look what I bought at the store. ... Just kiddin'. It's Earl. I just brought him home from the hospital. He's still got a touch of the coma.
    Patty: Yeah, they're a tough thing to shake. I missed a lot of my 30s like that.
    Randy: Well, he's not gonna be in it that long. I mean, he's almost back to normal already. Watch. Every opening I stick my finger in, I get a different reaction.
    Patty: Huh. Sounds a lot like my job.


& Darnell: Did the hospital need the bed? It's nice to see they throw white folks out too.


& Earl: Every neighborhood, there's people that annoy everybody else by working odd hours. In the trailer park, those hours are 9 to 5.

---

& T.R.: You're down a man, ace. Looks like you gonna have to forfeit*.
    Derrick: Over my half-dead body.


& Earl: Sometimes when you try to do good things, you don't see any results at all. But that doesn't mean you should stop doin' 'em.


& Randy: Earl, you're back. Are you back?
    Earl: I- I think so. I was havin' this crazy dream. We were all real old, and we had spent our whole lives together.
    Randy: That doesn't sound crazy. That sounds just about perfect.
    Earl: And I was married to Billie.
    Darnell: "Billy"? Who's he?
    Joy: Oh, crap. I think the coma made him gay.



--Dict:
forfeit — терять; поплатиться


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Easy A (1/2)

& Olive Penderghast: Let me just begin by saying that there are two sides to every story. And this is my side, the right one.

o.o Hit The Books

& Mr. Griffith: Rhiannon, Olive, go hit the books. They don't hit back. Also, hugs not drugs. Mess with the bull, get the horns. And any other cliches you can come up with.

o.o Pocket Full Of Sunshine

& Rhiannon: You liar. You totally lost your V-card to him.
   Olive: No, I didn't.
   Rhiannon: Yes, you did. Tell me everything.
   Olive: Rhi, I'm not that kind of girl.
   Rhiannon: The kind that does it, or the kind that does it... and doesn't have the lady balls to tell her friend?


& Marianne: Listen, I'm not the one that you have to answer to for your depraved behavior. There's a higher power that will judge you for your indecency.
   Olive: Tom Cruise?
   Marianne: I hope for your sake that God has a sense of humor.
   Olive: Oh, I have 17 years' worth of anecdotal proof he does.


& Marianne: You've made your bed... I just hope for your sake that you've cleaned the sheets.


& Olive: Ironically, we were studying The Scarlet Letter. Now, isn't that always the way? The books you read in class always have some strong connection with whatever angsty* adolescent* drama is going on. Except for Huckleberry Finn. I don't know any teenage boys... who have ever run away with a big, hulking* black guy.

---

& Olive: Maybe that whole stuck-up*, Jesus-freak thing is an act. You know?
   Brandon: No, I think she's just a stuck-up Jesus freak. And there are some of us who are just trying to blend in to the crowd.
   Olive: Well, then you've gotta do everything you can to blend in or... decide not to care.
   Brandon: I can't decide if you're a genius or a lunatic.
   Olive: Well, don't they sort of go hand in hand?


& Olive: No! No, no... Absolutely not.
   Brandon: Think about it. Think about it. We could help each other out.
   Olive: No.
   Brandon: You wanna maintain this floozy* facade. I don't wanna get pushed into shit every day. It's a win-win-win.
   Olive: How do you know I like being thought of as a floozy?
   Brandon: Because at least you're being thought of. Just one good imaginary bonk*.
   Olive: You are on crack. All right? And not the good kind.
   Brandon: It doesn't have to be a bonk. It could be an imaginary butterbean, lemon squeeze...
   Olive: I don't know what any of that means.
   Brandon: That's because you're a virgin.


& Olive: What the hell is a lemon squeeze?
   Brandon: It's like a backwards melon bag.
   Olive: How don't I know any of this?..


& Olive: Listen, here's the sitch, Melody Bostic. Brandon was just in the middle of telling me this really funny thing... which is really funny. And I was wondering if there's, like, a room where we could go... where he could finish telling me that thing that's funny... if you know what I mean.


& — This guy, he's gay, no?
   — I think he's gay.

Ending

--Dict:
angsty = the feeling of not being understood by anyone and that the person is alone in the world
adolescent — подростковый; пубертатный
hulking — неповоротливый; неуклюжий; громадный
stuck-up — заносчивый; самодовольный; высокомерный
floozy — шлюха; бабенка
bonk — трахаться

My Name Is Earl 3x17

No Heads and a Duffle* Bag

Season 3, Episode 17

& Randy: Guess what I learned. They call it a six-pack 'cause there's six beers in it. It has nothing to do with people's tummies.


& Earl: Sweet mother. Look at all that pot!
    Randy: I was hoping for money. Or socks. I need socks. If it was money, I could've bought socks. So what do we do with it?
    Earl: We're not gonna smoke it. Smoking weed kills your brain cells. Drinking only screws up your liver. You got two of those.
    Joy: Yeah, I don't understand weed. When you smoke, you get the munchies* and you get fat. When you drink, you throw up and you get skinny. That's just physics.


& Earl: This is a one-time thing. We'll only sell it to bad people. No women, no children.
    Randy: I think Mom would be really proud of us right now.

---

& Randy: Joy, make sure to get flavored vodka. I like it when my throw-up tastes like cherry.
    Joy: Flavored vodka is for sissies and pregnant women. You'll get what you get.


& Clayton: You destroyed m-my weed?! He destroyed my weed?!!
    Carl Hickey (Dad): Oh, God. I don't wanna die in shorts.
    Earl: Just t-t-take it easy. W... W... We can pay you back.
    Clayton: I don't need money. This was gonna be my first big delivery. I was trying to prove I could be middle-management material. Now I'm gonna have to kill you, which could skyrocket me to upper management... and I'm not ready for that kind of responsibility.


& Earl: There was only one person I knew... who I thought might be able to help me undo what I did. ... We need something.
    Darnell: You need weed.
    Earl: How'd you know?
    Darnell: It's usually what's goin' on... when a bunch of white people walk right up to me and start whispering. White people are nuts.


& Earl: While we were off trying to buy a duffel bag of weed... Joy was trying to keep her mouth shut, which, of course, was impossible.
    Joy: Oh, snap.
    Clayton: Snap* what?
    Joy: I know you. You're that boy from school that used to have those panic attacks. You'd have to lay on the floor and suck your fingers. We used to call you Floor Finger Sucker.
    Clayton: Yeah? Well, I wasn't the only one in high school with a nickname that ended in "sucker."
    Joy: But unlike you, my nickname just made me more popular, Floor Finger Sucker.


& Dad: Our flight leaves in two hours. But we still gotta stop by the bank and cash these savings bonds.
    Earl: I'm sorry you have to cash in your bonds, Dad.
    Dad: They're not mine. Your relatives gave them to you for college. So when Harvard finally comes calling, you're screwed.


& Dad: That's our flight taking off. Our vacation is officially ruined. And I learned how to say "thank you" in Samoan for nothing. Fa'afetai, Earl. Fa'afetai very much.



--Dict:
Duffle — спортивный костюм; снаряжение туриста; снаряжение
munchies — =get hungry after smoking weed
Snap — кнопка; треск; ... порваться; ломаться; ... неожиданный; ... внезапно


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13

& Schlondorff: We are born only once and we die only once. You must be philosophical. You are the descendant from the great Schopenhauer.
    Henry: Let all gamblers please step back.


& Henry: Players, all eyes on the bulb. When the bulb lights up, you shoot.

---

& Postman: $22, please.
{ Bazinga! }



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_ 13 уже лежали в загашничке, а тут еще и рекоменд подоспел. Ну, так. На раз прокатит. Особенно, если, как утверждают истинные ценители, не видеть предыдущей инкарнации сценария.

~ Страшнее всего — вопли Henry.

Who's hate homework

Several years ago I gave a speech about technology to the Texas Library Association's big annual meeting. After the speech I was talking with a pair of elementary school librarians. Channing was back then just going off to pre-school so homework was the last thing on my mind but they brought it up. "The best thing you can do for your kids," they said, "is to not allow them to do homework until the third grade."

...most of the homework is busywork. It teaches nothing. Worst of all, our child-centric culture has parents digging-in with their kids to do that homework, wasting all of our time and ultimately pitting adult against adult as surrogates for their exhausted kids.
What's wrong with this picture? Everything.
When I was Channing's age, 50 years ago, my parents' attitude was one of benign neglect. They were busy doing whatever parents did back then (drinking and smoking cigarettes, mainly), but it sure didn't include helping me with my homework. Somehow my siblings and I survived just fine.

...public officials don't like good news, seeing it as un-motivating. If we had a dry year it was bad, they'd explain, because there wouldn't be enough snowmelt, the reservoirs would be down but, most importantly, the forests and grasslands would be tinder-dry, increasing the danger of forest and wild fires. But if we had the occasional rainy year their line changed. Now the reservoirs were full (though that could change in a moment so don't take any extra showers) but the extra snowmelt meant extra forest and grassland growth creating more combustible material making forest and wild fires even more likely. No matter what happened it was bad according to these guys because they didn't want to ever give up the chance to preach down to us. They were determined to remove whatever joy there was in life.
Same thing in education. We aren't as good as we used to be and that's going to have a major impact on, well, everything. So the answer is always more resources, more testing, more consultants. {...}

... How do we optimize our educational system to encourage normal kids to achieve greatness?
Not through all this God-damned homework.
German students have plenty of homework, too, and they go to school an average of 220 days per year to our 183. German kids go to school on Saturday. That should prove the point, right? Because nobody is saying the Germans are falling behind. Heck, they are the economic powerhouse of Europe.
But wait a minute. School in Germany starts at 8AM and ends each day at noon. Even the high schools follow that schedule. German schools don't serve lunch because the kids have all gone home, I suppose to do their homework. But if you get home at 12:30 there is plenty of time for homework, eh?

(in toto)

Reign of Assassins

& Life isn't necessarily happy. Death isn't necessarily painful.


& I am willing to turn into a stone bridge and endure 500 years of wind and rain.


& Hide weakness in deftness*. Use both darkness and light. Reveal clarity* in obscurity*. In surrender become strong.


& Zeng Jing: What does "I would turn into a bridge for 500 years and endure the wind and rain" mean?
    Master: Before one of the Buddha's disciples became a monk he met a beautiful girl and fell in love with her. Buddha asked him: "How much do you love her?" And he answered he would turn into a stone bridge and endure 500 years of wind 500 years of sunlight and 500 years of rain. He only asked that the girl would walk over the bridge.

---

& Ah-Sheng: It's starting to rain. Let me help you pack up.


& Zeng Jing: Master, please tell me that I am lucky enough to start my life over again. Please, tell me if I can really have a fresh start?
    Master: Go! The dead shall open the eyes of the living. The heart yearning* for the past is unattainable*. The heart yearning for the present is unattainable. The heart yearning for the future is unattainable. The future becomes the present. The present becomes the past. Seek not the heart that connects the three! What is unattainable speaks not of what can be pursued*.


& Lei Bin: Don't waste your energy. A needle in this acupuncture point... and then a second one... and then it won't hurt a bit when you die.
    Ah-Sheng: You haven't died. How do you know if it hurts or not?



-- Dict:
yearning — тоска; сильное желание
unattainable — недостижимый
pursued — преследовать; гнаться за
deftness — ловкость; проворство
clarity — четкость; прозрачность; чистота
obscurity — безвестность; мрак; темнота; незаметность




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30 Rock 2x12

Subway Hero

Season 2, Episode 12

& Liz: These things are so bad for me. 400% of my sodium? I should not be eating these.


& Jake: Tracy. My friend. Have you ever considered becoming the celebrity face of the republican party?
    Tracy: What? Hell, no. Black people supporting republicans? Does hot support cold? Does rain support the earth?
    Jack: Now that misperception is precisely why the GOP needs better celebrities, and a black celebrity such as yourself would really make us look good. Do you like lower taxes?
    Tracy: If I paid taxes, I sure would.
    Jack: How about gun ownership?
    Tracy: Go on.
    Jack: States' rights?
    Tracy: I love states' rights.
    Jack: And let none of us forget the GOP is the party of Lincoln.
    Tracy: Lincoln was a republican?
    Dot com: Actually, today's republican party would be unrecognizable to Lincoln. He fought a war to preserve federal authority over the states. That's not exactly small government.
    Jack: Dot com, this need you have to be the smartest guy in the room is... off-putting*.
    Dot com: I guess that's why I'm still single.


& Jack: Let me ask you a question, Kenneth. If Mr. Bright here told you to vote Republican, would you do it?
    Ken: Oh, uh, no, sir. I don't vote Republican or Democrat. Choosing is a sin, so I always just write in the Lord's name!
    Jack: That's Republican. We count those.


& Bucky: Back then we didn't have pages*, you know. We had what we called 'sandwich girls'.
    Ken: Oh, because they got you sandwiches?
    Bucky: No, no, no, two guys 'd get... Hey, my old dressing room.

---

& Bucky Bright [about writers' room]: We used to call this the "Jew room".


& Tracy: Oh, Sam. Sammy. You were a republican?
'Nixon': He sure was. Black, Jewish, one eye, a white wife.


& Liz: I might be an idiot. I know I'm supposed to make myself nice meals, instead of eating junk. Do you know what I use my oven for?
    Jenna: Warming your jeans in the morning?


& Dennis: You must know what I'm talking about... you smell rich.
    Jake: Thank you. My cologne is distilled from the bilge* water of Rupert Murdock's yacht.


& Liz: Everything in my life is work.
    Jenna: But not Dennis Duffy!
    Liz: I don't have to shave, I don't have to bathe, I don't have to be clever or nice, you know. I can just be myself. Isn't that what love really is?
    Jenna: No. Love is hiding who you really are at all times, even when you're sleeping. Love is wearing makeup to bed and going downstairs to the Burger King to poop, and hiding alcohol in perfume bottles. That's love.
    Liz: Uh, it just sounds hard. Being with Dennis is easy. If you give into it,you just start to feel kind of numb and warm, and then you just get sleepy. That's not that bad.
    Jenna: That's exactly what they say it's like when you freeze to death.



-- Dict:
off-putting — обескураживающий; смущающий; неприятный
page — паж; мальчик-слуга; посыльный
bilge — днище; трюмная вода


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My Name Is Earl 3x16

Stole a Motorcycle

Season 3, Episode 16

& Earl: Once we got the motorcycle, we decided to have some fun. Life is awesome! And whenever we were having fun, we loved to add beer. And rum. And tequila. And whatever malt liquor was on sale. Next thing we knew, it was morning.


& Joy: Come on. Think hard.
    Randy: Something's coming back... Oh, it left. It's coming back... There it goes again. It's fast... It's just a naked lady. Oh, it's a dude. I don't want to do this anymore.


& Billie: Earl, what are you doing?!
    Earl: Surprising you, 'cause you were getting all dolled up expecting some gigolo to come over.
    Billie: Are you crazy? The only two things I'm expecting are to see my doctor... and to have your baby.
    Earl: We're having a baby?! My own baby... who'll be my color and actually looks like me?

---

& Homeless Joe: Son, I know what I saw. I can't vouch for what I heard 'cause there's a beetle living in my ear, but I know what I saw.


& Randy: I can't believe Earl tried to kill me. I'm Randy. Earl wouldn't try to kill Randy. That'd be like peanut butter trying to kill jelly. Peanut butter wouldn't kill jam. They're in the same sandwich.


& Joy: Oh, my God. Kill me when I'm 50.


& Randy: So he did try to kill me. I'm not even sad about it anymore. I'm angry. I mean, I'm still kind of sad, but more angry than sad! Is there a word for that? There should be. I'm feeling pretty terr-hurtsible. Really, really terr-hurtsible. With a touch of sangry.


& Darnell: Does this antenna look familiar? Looks like panties hanging on it.
    Joy: Holy crap. That's the pantenna!
    Earl: The pantenna used to be a tradition in the trailer park. After girls hooked up with a guy, they'd shoot their panties at the antenna. The story was, if they stuck, it was true love. If they fell, it was likely the clap*.


& Joy: Great googly moogly.


& Earl: The cops are gonna be looking for a guy, and a giant chicken. But they never looking for two giant half chickens. Give me your pants. Cops are dumb.



--Dict:
clap — триппер; хлопанье; гонорея


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The Big Bang Theory 4x10

The Alien Parasite Hypothesis

Season 4, Episode 10

& Sheldon: Clarify something for me. Isn't the point of a communal meal the exchange of ideas and opinions?.. An opportunity to consider important issues of the day?..
    Leonard: It is. You just kind of put a damper on things when you said, "The next person I see talking with food in their mouth will be put to death."


& Sheldon: I will propose a new topic of conversation. What is the best number? By the way, there's only one correct answer.
    Raj: 5,318,008?
    Sheldon: Wrong. The best number is 73.
    All guys: ..............
    Sheldon: You're probably wondering why.
    Howard: No.
    Raj: Uh-uh.
    Leonard: We're good.
    Sheldon: 73 is the 21st prime number. Its mirror — 37, is the 12th, and its mirror, 21, is the product of multiplying... hang on to your hats... seven and three. Eh? Eh? Did I lie?
    Leonard: We get it. 73 is the Chuck Norris of numbers.
    Sheldon: Chuck Norris wishes. 73 is "1001001" which backwards is "1001001"... exactly the same. All Chuck Norris backwards gets you is: "Sirron Kcuhc."
    Raj: Just for the record, when you enter 5,318,008 on a calculator, upside-down it spells "boobies".
    Leonard: Remember when you were wondering why the girls didn't want to eat with us tonight?
    Howard: Yeah, I get it now.


& Penny: I love your little heart locket, Bernadette. {...}
    Amy: Did you know that the iconic Valentine's heart shape is not actually based on the shape of a human heart, but rather on the shape of the buttocks of a female bending over?
    Penny: Oh, so I spent seventh grade dotting my I's with little asses?.. Cool.


& Bernadette: He's really cute. How do you know him?
    Penny: Oh, we went out a couple of times.
    Amy: I'm often flummoxed* by current slang. Does "went out" mean "had intercourse"?
    Bernadette: Yes.
    Penny: No, no. But in this case... yes.


& Raj: I wouldn't be the sidekick*.
    Howard: You'd be the sidekick.
    Raj: Rat-Man is nobody's sidekick.
    Howard: Leonard, settle this. Of the two of us, who's the obvious sidekick?
    Raj: Yeah, Leonard, who?
    Leonard: 12 years after high school, and I'm still at the nerd table.

---

& Sheldon: Aren't you slicing that man's brain a little too thin?
    Amy: It's too thin if I were making a foot-long brain sandwich at Quiznos. For examination under a two-photon microscope, it's fine.


& Amy: Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to take my temperature.
    Sheldon: Are you monitoring your circadian rhythms in order to identify your periods of maximum mental acuity*? I did that one summer. Ah, youth.
    Amy: No, I experienced some distressing symptoms last night, so I'm checking my vital signs every hour.
    Sheldon: I'd be happy to create a chart and participate in a differential diagnosis.
    Amy: Oh, that sounds like fun.


& Sheldon: What were the symptoms?
    Amy: Elevated heart rate, moist palms, dry mouth and localized vascular throbbing.
    Sheldon: Localized to what region?
    Amy: Ears and genitalia.
    Sheldon: Interesting... Not body parts that usually team up.


& Sheldon: All right, I think I have enough to go on. Possible explanations for your symptoms are, in descending order of likelihood:

• hyperthyroidism,
• premature menopause,
• hosting an alien parasite or...
and I only include it for the sake of covering absolutely all bases...
• sexual arousal.

    Amy: Where would I have picked up an alien parasite?


& Raj: What the heck is this?
    Howard: A jar with a big spider in it, of course. Bravery test. First one to take his hand out is the sidekick.
    Raj: Are you crazy?
    Howard: Perhaps. Are you scared?
    Raj: No. But it's a stupid test.
    Howard: Oh, really? What if the earth was in danger and the only way to save it was to stick your hand in a jar with a spider?
    Raj: Oh, yeah? What if the earth was in danger and the only way to save it was to take a shower in the locker room and let other guys see you naked?
    Howard: Oh, come on. That's never gonna happen.


& Amy: I think we need to face the cold, hard truth: I was sexually aroused by Penny's friend Zack.
    Sheldon: Hang on. I don't know that we've given the alien parasite hypothesis a fair shake.
    Amy: Let's look at this logically. I have a stomach, I get hungry. I have genitals, I have the potential for sexual arousal.
    Sheldon: A cross we all must bear. You know, in difficult moments like this, I often turn to a force greater than myself.
    Amy: Religion?
    Sheldon: Star Trek.


& Amy: Is it possible that your concern for me at this moment is motivated by nothing more than simple jealousy?
    Sheldon: I hadn't considered that. Give me a moment. ... All right, I've considered it.
    Amy: And?
    Sheldon: I reject it.
    Amy: You reject it because you don't feel jealousy, or because you are suppressing jealousy?
    Sheldon: I think I'll eat my lunch at home.
    Amy: That's not your lunch, Sheldon, those are the cadaver* brain specimens.
    Sheldon: Oh. As they were incorrectly sliced, you can see how I could mistake them for my sashimi.


& Penny: So how's Amy?
    Sheldon: Amy's changed. I might have to let her go.
    Penny: Oh, no. Why?
    Sheldon: I thought she was a highly evolved creature of pure intellect, like me. But recent events indicate that she may be a slave to her baser urges. Like you.
    Penny: Just going to skip over that insult.
    Sheldon: What insult?
    Penny: Yeah. That's why I'm going to skip over it.


& Sheldon: It's simple biology. There's nothing I can do about it.
    Penny: Are you sure? {...} I'm suggesting there might be something you could do about... Amy's urges?
    Sheldon: It's illegal to spay* a human being.
    Penny: Yeah. That's not what I had in mind.
    Sheldon: Oh. Oh! You mean... something I could do.
    Penny: Exactly.
    Sheldon: Well, I was hoping to avoid this. But I might as well get it over with. Thank you, Penny. I'll let you know what happens.


& Sheldon: Yes. This is Dr. Sheldon Cooper. ... Is this the Zack Johnson who used to have coitus with my neighbor Penny? ... Sorry to bother you. ... Hello. I'm looking for a Zack Johnson who used to have coitus with my neighbor Penny. ... Coitus. It means intercourse. And I have a feeling I'm speaking to the right Zack.


& Amy: There's Zack.
    Sheldon: Are you sure this is what you want to do?
    Amy: It's not what I want to do, it's what I have to do.
    Sheldon: Go, Amy Farrah Fowler. Follow your endocrine system.


& Amy: Zack, I am Amy Farrah Fowler. We met the other night. I have spent my life in pursuit of pure knowledge. Until I met you, my decisions were founded in logic and reason. And yet here I stand before you, 130 pounds of raging estrogen, longing* to grab hold of your gluteus maximus and make Shakespeare's metaphorical beast with two backs.
    Zack: My gluteus what?
    Amy: On the other hand, as I look at the blank, ape-like expression on your face, I have decided to adopt the Vulcan practice of Kolinar. Good-bye, Zack.
    Zack: Bye.
    Amy: Hoo.


& Raj: You realize you can't win.
    Howard: I prefer to think that I can't lose.



--- Dict:
flummox — смущать; ставить в затруднительное положение
sidekick — друг; помощник
acuity — острота
cadaver — труп
spay — удалять яичники
longing — страстно желающий


On Imdb.

My Name Is Earl 3x14-15

I Won't Die with a Little Help from My Friends

Season 3, Episodes 14 & 15

& Officer Hoyne: Ah, nuts. We got a stolen ambulance eastbound on Sycamore Street. I would be in pursuit, but our Al-Gore-wannabe* mayor... decided to go green and replaced my squad car with a bicycle.


& Earl: Hello, Joy, Darnell.
    Darnell: Hey, Earl.
    Earl: Hey, Crabman.
    Darnell: We just came by to bring you a wedding gift. It's a toaster.
    Earl: Just what we needed.
    Darnell: It's actually our toaster. And you should know... the right slot runs hotter than the left, so plan your toast accordingly. Of course we would've brought it to the wedding... but the only option on our invitation card was "Will not attend." So don't be surprised when you find a cat turd* in your toaster. She held that darn cat over that thing for two hours. I thought he was never gonna go.
    Earl: Well, it was good seein' ya. I'm sure you gotta get goin'. Got a long drive back home. You'll have to come for breakfast sometime. We'll all have toasted cat crap.


& Catalina: Oh, snap!
    Joy: Oh, hell, no. You are not gonna try and steal that.


& Catalina: Where do you think the odds are? He just got better and walked home.
    Joy: About the same as if he spontaneously combusted*.
    Darnell: Not true. The government doesn't want you to know it, but people spontaneously combust all the time. That's why you see so many sneakers hanging from power lines.


& Randy: He left less than 25 minutes ago.
    Joy: ???
    Randy: You share a bed with a guy for long enough, you learn a few things.


& Randy: Get your boobs off my brother!


& Darnell: He's going to be okay, right, doc?
    Indian doctor: Define "okay."
    Catalina: Not dead.
    Doctor: I don't know.
    Randy: Can't you tell us anything good about Earl?
    Doctor: He has a fantastic mustache and, praise be to Ganesh it was unharmed. Other than that, all we can do is pray. I bet you wish you had more than one god now, uh?


& Randy: You're gonna wake my brother now, Mr. Doctor?
    Doctor: Do you remember earlier we talked about something called a coma?
Oh, yeah. The story about the bears sleeping through the winter.
    Doctor: Right... And we don't try wake them. Hopefully, your brother'll pull through and wake up on his own.
    Joy: Yeah, listen here, Dr. Bob-a-ganoush. You people might be great at running cheap motels, but we're gonna require a second opinion from a real doctor. You know, a Jewish one.
    Doctor: I'm Indian. We're the new Jews.
    Darnell: I thought that was Koreans.
    Doctor: They wish.

---

& Catalina: Guess what I picked up in the parking lot at Club Chubby.
    Joy: Gonorrhea?


& Joy: Look Randy...
    Randy: No! No "look Randy," and no "never," and no pamphlets with the sad pull the plug face on. People come back from the dead all the time. Zombies, werewolves, vampires. Need I go on?


& Randy: It's bacon, Earl. You always wake up for bacon.
    Joy: How about boobs? You used to wake up for these often enough. Sorry, Darnell.
    Darnell: I'm cool. You know I don't consider above the waist to be cheating.
    Joy: Squeeze, baby. You're a vegetable, not a fruit.


& Joy: Damn it, Earl, this is my turn. This zit's getting so big, it's got a little zit* on the side of it.
    Randy: Don't worry, Joy. I'm sure everybody at your reunion's gonna be talking about your black and white kids and your terrible personality, not your big, disgusting zit.


& Gerald: How do I know she's not evil?
    Joy: One: I'm American. Two: I saw all my pregnancies through to the end. And three: nobody can look this good without the Lord on her side.
    Gerald: Unless they have the evil on their side.
    Joy: I'm not gonna even dignify* that comment with a response, you little lying bat-faced Bible freak!



---Dict:
wannabe — подражатель
turd — дерьмо
combusted — сжигать; воспламеняться; гореть
zit — прыщик
dignify — удостаивать


On Imdb: Part I & Part II.

Родриго Кортес — Садовник

  “Яркий луч заходящего солнца высветил в полутьме усыпальницы семьи Эсперанса длинный ряд серых гробниц, мраморную фигуру Девы Марии со скорбно скрещенными на груди изящными кистями, поникшие от жары головки крупных, но слабых оранжерейных роз в огромных каменных вазах и бордовые, цвета запекшейся крови лепестки на белых шестиугольных плитах пола. ...

&  – Господин лейтенант, – внезапно окликнул его капрал Альварес и смущенно потер свой огромный кулак. – А может, это... по морде ему?
    – Думаешь, поможет? – на ходу бросил Мигель.
    – Иногда помогает. Смотря какой человек... Иному и трех раз хватает, а кого и две-три недели приходится мутузить...

&  Хуже ситуации и придумать было нельзя. Трупы есть, а толку нет.

&  Себастьян обошел весь город. Он заглядывал в калитки, за ворота и через заборы везде, где это было возможно, но каждый раз убеждался в том, что этот кошмар здесь – норма. Горожане словно забыли о посаженных ими деревьях, кустарнике и цветах. А иногда ему даже казалось, что он – единственный садовник в городе.
    Впрочем, нет, порой он совершенно случайно натыкался на ухоженные участки земли, но почти всегда наполнялся недоумением – садики и альпийские горки были так безыскусны, так непритязательны, словно создавшие их люди пытались поскорее избавиться от вроде бы необходимой, но слишком уж нелюбимой работы.
    Поначалу видеть это было тяжело, очень тяжело, но прошло некоторое время, и Себастьян начал с горечью в сердце понимать: таковы здесь люди, а каков садовник, таков и сад. Растения рассказывали ему о своих хозяевах почти все.

---

&  ... Гость зачмокал губами, застонал, попытался повернуться на бок и не сумел. Себастьян врос в пол и вдруг подумал, что бог может обидеться.
    Он совершенно точно знал, что в прошлый раз, когда утонул отец, богу это понравилось. Недаром же падре Франсиско с такой уверенностью сказал, что без воли божьей и волос с головы не упадет, но сейчас...
    Гость снова захрапел, и, стиснув зубы, Себастьян решительно шагнул вперед. Узнать, на чьей стороне бог, можно было, только начав действовать.

&  Революция подняла со дна столетиями накопившееся дерьмо, и теперь вся эта муть плавала над городом, отравляя атмосферу взаимной подозрительностью, обидами и старыми счетами.

&  Себастьян совершенно точно знал, что Эдем – это сад, такой же, как у него, но, конечно же, гораздо больше и несравненно прекраснее. Ему многократно объяснили, что в Эдеме не будет ни горя, ни страданий, а только одна нескончаемая радость пред лицом господним. И вот здесь он терялся.
    Весь его опыт говорил о том, что счастье у каждого свое. Кармен более всего на свете любила карамель, старый полковник Эсперанса – командовать и щелкать на костяных счетах, а сам он, садовник в четвертом поколении, всегда с удовольствием ухаживал за цветами.
Как именно поступит с ними со всеми господь – посадит ли на зеленой лужайке в длинных, как у ангелов, рубахах рядом с добрыми зверями или просто сунет за пазуху, в дремотное, уютное тепло, чтобы каждый мог отдохнуть и согреться после неустанных земных трудов, Себастьян не знал, но уже понимал, что лично ему этого было бы недостаточно.
    Он вдруг осознал, что единственный способ дать счастье каждому – оставить ему то, что он любит и к чему привык...

&  ...чтобы потом, когда они все умрут, а сад станет райским, каждый из них, смотря на сад, словно смотрелся бы в зеркало своей души и все глубже и глубже понимал бы самого себя. Потому что только это человек может делать бесконечно.

&  Нельзя сказать, чтобы новый политический расклад так уж радовал Мигеля. Что правые, что левые, на его взгляд, одинаково перегибали палку, не умея прислушиваться к оппоненту.

&  Главное, поменьше света… Свет слишком правдив; он чересчур обнажает…

&  И наверное, оттого, что все получалось, Себастьян неожиданно глубоко и мощно прочувствовал, сколь разумно и гармонично устроен весь созданный Всевышним мир. Так же, как цветы или кусты, прорастали, цвели, плодоносили и умирали люди, и господь, словно молодой энергичный садовник, регулярно корчевал, прореживал, обрезал свой сад, создавая самые изощренные, самые немыслимые сочетания характеров и судеб.

&  Он вставал задолго до рассвета, сразу же принимался за работу, затем завтракал, потом принимал под свое техническое руководство очередное подразделение и весь день бегал вдоль всей линии оборонительных сооружений, помогая выворачивать особо крупные камни и следя за тем, чтобы земляные стенки были идеально ровными. Он не знал, зачем нужна такая точность, но хорошо усвоил, что офицерам нравится, когда все ровно и гладко.

&  За два года войны он уже несколько раз переходил с одной стороны на другую и каждый раз с удовлетворением убеждался в том, что господь не с теми и не с другими; господь – с ним. Но конец света затягивался.
    Теперь Себастьян уже не ждал его, как прежде, со дня на день. Он понимал, чтобы вырастить цветок, требуется время, и если бог однажды установил такие правила, он не станет нарушать их ради своей секундной прихоти. А значит, конец света будет длиться и длиться, пока жизнь окончательно не сдаст свои позиции.

&  Два дня он потратил только на то, чтобы выбрать нужное место в саду, и в конце концов остановился на выпирающей бугром веселенькой мавританской лужайке неподалеку от ручья и сбегающей вслед за ним по камням фиалковой россыпи. Полдня старательно, никуда не торопясь, он копал посадочную лунку, а потом долго и любовно полировал ее стенки кривым садовым ножом. И когда работа была практически закончена, вдруг осознал, что и рай, и ад – просто разные формы долгого вселенского сна.
    Да, жизнь стремится к смерти, как лето стремится к зиме, но это вовсе не означает, что зима никогда не закончится. И бог, этот великий садовник, просто соберет свои семена – и плевелы, и зерна – в житницы, чтобы бережно сохранить их до следующей весны. {...}
    И Страшный суд уже вовсе не выглядел таким уж страшным, ибо что такое Страшный суд, как не сортировка семян по их весу и значению? И что такое Ад с его бесчисленными кругами, и Чистилище, и множество Райских небесных сфер – как не бескрайние закрома для объятых сном человеческих семян?
    Только теперь он понял, что значит попрать смертию смерть.

  ... И тем более никто и предположить не мог, что в 1954 году однорукий, почти безумный пятидесятилетний старик все-таки вернется с каторги и до конца своих дней будет жить в хибаре клана садовников Эстебан, надеясь дождаться, когда Себастьян Хосе завершит свою миссию и вернется туда, откуда начал.”

My Name Is Earl 3x13

Bad Earl

Season 3, Episode 13

& Ralph: Ooh. Sweet Coke bottles.


& Ralph: Okay. You guys gotta get out of here. I gotta eat, then, uh, I gotta give Doris her bath. Ain't all peaches and cream.


& Earl: I'm finished with the list.
    Randy: You can't. Something bad might happen.
    Earl: Oh, really? Ralph's an escaped convict who's stealing from an old lady. Nothin' bad's happening to him. I'm pretty sure this karma stuff doesn't really exist. I mean, think about it, Randy. I got the whole idea from Carson Daly, for God sakes. He's a talk show host who's on after two other talk show hosts. What does that tell you?.. Randy, look how many things I've crossed off. What do I have to show for it? Nothin'. If karma was real, I'd have something good by now. Where's my good thing, Randy? Where's my good thing?

---

& Darnell: Hey, Earl.
    Earl: Hey, Crabman.
    Darnell: What's up? You know, in regards to our home being turned on its side and whatnot?
    Joy: Sons of bitches! What the hell did you do?! What the hell did you do?!! And talk fast, 'cause I'm gonna stab you in the throat... once I figure out which one of these is the knife drawer.
    Earl: Oh, come on, Joy. You gotta admit, it's a little funny. Tell her, Darnell.
    Darnell: Well, maybe in time we'll come to find the comic absurdity...


& Ralph: Doris, honey, your high chair fell off the toilet again... What the hell?!
    Doris: Look, Stanley. The whole family came home for Christmas... even my sister who died in 1973.
    Joy: Silly bitch put mothballs in my cocoa.


& Earl: What are y'all doing here? Get out now.
    Randy: Nobody's leavin' until you listen to what we have to say. We're here to save you from yourself. It's called an invention.
Joy: It's called an inter-invention, dummy. {...} Now, sit down. Let's get this show on the road. I ain't got all day. I got a Christmas ham in the microwave needs to be flipped. We're all here to tell you why we liked you better nice. Darnell, go.
    Darnell: Hey, Earl. I've written a poem that best expresses how I feel. "Sadness falls on us all... like food from a sideways refrigerator."
    Joy: Next!!
    Catalina: Before I came to this country, I never had any male friends... because my mother always taught me men are only interested in one thing: raping your mother. {...}
    Randy: I'd follow you anywhere, Earl. I followed you and karma and your list... and it took me to all these wonderful people. Now you're leadin' me away from them... and we're losin' our friends, and I don't like it. I don't like this feelin' I got in my stomach anymore. It's not like when we were helpin' people. So let's just go back to the way it was before. Because if you do good things, good things happen. Right, Earl? Right?
    Earl: Nope. There is no karma. I did my list for two years... and the only good things that happened were for other people. If good things were gonna happen to me, they would have happened by now. But they didn't, so screw the list, screw karma... and screw all of you for ruinin' my Christmas morning.



On Imdb.

Eclipse

The Twilight Saga — 3

& Bella: Marriage is just... Is a piece of paper.
    Edward: Where I am from, it's the way one says, 'I love you'.
    Bella: Where I come from, at my age... It's the way one says, 'I just got knocked up'.


& Bella's Mom: Don't you just feel the vitamin D soaking up in your pores?
    Bella: Yeah, I'm gonna miss this.


& Edward: If I asked you to stay in the car, would you? ... Of course not.


& Jacob: It's more than some crush, Bella. Sam imprinted on Emily.
    Bella: Do I want to know what that is?
    Jacob: Imprinting on someone is like... Like when you see her, everything changes. All of a sudden, it's not gravity holding you to the planet. It's her. Nothing else matters. You would do anything... Be anything for her.


& Bella: Stop! I'm tired of this. From now on I'm Switzerland, okay?


& Bella: I thought, maybe you were afraid that I'll be too different. Unlike. I won't be, you know... warm. And won't smell the same.
    Edward: You'll always be my Bella. My Bella, just less fragile.


& Bella: Rosalie, I don't understand what I did to make you hate me so much...
    Rosalie: I don't hate you. I don't particularly like you... Bella, I envy you.
    Bella: What?! That's ridiculous.
    Rosalie: No it's not. You have a choice. I didn't. None of us did. But you do and you're choosing wrong!


& Rosalie: I got my revenge on them. One at a time. I saved Royce for last, so he'd know I was coming. I was a little theatrical back then.


& Bella: ...there's nothing I'll ever gonna want, more... than Edward.
    Rosalie: You're wrong again. After you've been changed, there's one thing you'll want more... One thing you'll kill for... Blood.

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& Jessica: When we were five, they asked us what we wanted to be when we grew up. Our answers were things like, astronauts, president... or in my case, a princess.
    When we were ten, they asked again. We answered, a rock star, cowboy, or in my case, a gold medalist. But now that we're grown up, they want a serious answer. Well, how about this. Who the hell knows?
    This isn't the time to make hard and fast decisions; this is a time to make mistakes. Take the wrong train and get stuck somewhere. Fall in love... a lot. Major in philosophy, because there's no way to make a career out of that. Change your mind, and change it again, because nothing's permanent. So, make as many mistakes as you can. That way, someday, when they ask what we want to be, we won't have to guess... we'll know.


& Jacob: What the hell does this mean?
    Edward: It means an ugly fight. With lives lost.


& Charlie: Alright. So... You guys are... taking precautions, and...
    Bella: Okay, dad. Please just don't worry about that. Edward is... old school.
    Charlie: Old school, great. What's that? Like a code for something?
    Bella: Oh my god. Dad... I'm a virgin.
    Charlie: Okay, go. Glad we covered that.
    Bella: Me too.
    Charlie: Virgin... Liking Edward a little bit more now.


& Edward: It might be too late for my soul, but I will protect yours. I know it's not a modern notion...
    Bella: It's not modern. It's ancient. I'm from a different era.
    Edward: Things were... a lot less complicated. And if I met you back then, I would've courted to you. We'd have taken chaperoned strolls, or had iced tea on the porch. I may have stolen a kiss or two. But, only... after asking your father's permission. I would've got down on one knee... And I would presented you with a ring. This was my mother's. Isabella Swan. I promise to love you, every moment forever. And would you do me the extraordinary honor of marrying me?


& Edward: If we weren't natural enemies... and you weren't trying to steal my reason for existing... I might actually like you.
    Jacob: Well... If you weren't planning on sucking the life out of the girl I love, I might... No... Not even then.


& Bella: Should I come back?
    Jacob: I need some time. But I'll always be waiting.
    Bella: Until my heart stops beating...
    Jacob: Maybe even then.


& Bella: I've made a mess trying to figure all this out, but... I wanna do it right. And I wanna tie my self to you, in every way humanly possible. Starting with a wedding. Actually... Something, a little more difficult first. And maybe even dangerous. We have to tell Charlie.
    Edward: It's highly dangerous.
    Bella: It's a good thing you're bulletproof. And I'm gonna need that ring.



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+ Choices, choices, choices... Choices that we do. Choices that make us.
_ As somebody said: 'vampires don't sparkle'. He-he.

Drop Dead Diva 1x6

Second Chances

Season 1, Episode 6

& Aaron: Normally I wouldn't do this, but this case has gotten a lot of attention... and my boss would like to look compassionate.
    Kim: What have you got?
    Aaron: Manslaughter. 10 years. Consider it a gift.
    Jane: Chocolate is a gift. A certificate for a massage is a gift. 10 years in prison is...


& Parker: You like this tie? It's bold, right? Says "I'm in charge".
    Jane: It's dated. Red was the power color under Bush, but with Obama, it's light blue. Fashioners say the lighter color imbues* a man with confidence and trust without the aggressive undertones of red.

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& Parker: Look, Bingum, uh, speaking of interviews... what's the deal canceling on Carol?
    Jane: Is she a reporter?
    Parker: Carol, the tremendous assistant who worked at my old law firm. I set up the interview. What happened?
    Jane: Hold on. Why should I get rid of Teri?
    Parker: She's snide*, unprofessional, and have you seen the way she dresses? She was wearing red pants today. I'm running a law firm, not the Hyde lounge.
    Jane: Her pants aren't red. They're fuchsia.


& Grayson: After dinner, maybe we can finish a puzzle together.
    Jane: Yeah, that would be...
    Grayson: Don't say "lame".
    Jane: A lot of fun.



-- Dict:
imbues — насыщает
snide — подлый; фальшивый; насмешливый; низкий; ехидный


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Кодзи Судзуки — Петля

Звонок — 3

  “Через открытую раздвижную дверь в комнату проникал запах морской воды. ...

&  Невозможно было поверить, что большая часть этих рыб адаптировалась к жизни на земле. Смена среды обитания сопровождалась изменением внутренних органов. Стал необходимым переход с жаберного дыхания на легочное. Каким же образом осуществлялись эти пробы и ошибки на пути к изменению внутреннего устройства? Один орган перерождался в другой, – если представить себе это, становится жутко.

&  – Жить не так уж и мило, как ты думаешь.

&  ... Условия, что, например, два атома водорода и один кислорода превращались в воду, а вода, вступая в реакцию с азотом, образовывала аммиак, были строги и неизменны, как и космос, окружавший эту Землю.
    Образование воды не произошло в этом мире однажды как следствие некой причины. То, что два атома водорода и один атом кислорода соединяются и образуют воду, было установлено заранее, как правило. Кто создал эти правила? Определенно, как его ни назови, это будет Бог.

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&  Все, что выходит за пределы случайности, имеет смысл.

&  Напряги всю силу своей мысли, бей врага, покусившегося на твое молодое тело.
    Так говорит его отец. Думай, что ты избежишь смерти, борись с врагом, ты должен победить. Есть только одно оружие, как говорит отец, – сила мысли.

&  – Нельзя верить первому впечатлению. Всегда во всем сомневайся.

&  – Мир иногда нуждается в руке творца.

  ... – Все будет хорошо! – громко прокричал в небо Такаяма. Он знал, что его услышали.”

Спираль (Звонок—2)

Рождение (Звонок—4) (будет (בהנ"ו))