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Quote
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Year
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Movie
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"I apologise for my appearance. But I have had a difficult time these past several years."
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2014
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12 Years a Slave
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"Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity."
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2002
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A Beautiful Mind
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"Why Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales?"
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1967
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A Man For All Seasons
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"Nice speech, Eve. But I wouldn't worry too much about your heart. You can always put that award where your heart ought to be."
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1951
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All About Eve
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"Me and the kaiser, we are both fighting. the only difference is the Kaiser isn't here!"
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1931
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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"Appeal to their emotions. Make them laugh; make them cry; make them mad, even if they get mad at you. But for heaven's sake, don't try to improve their minds."
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1950
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All the Kings Men
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"Mediocrities everywhere... I absolve you.... I absolve you.... I absolve you... I absolve you... I absolve you all."
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1985
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Amadeus
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"Remember those posters that said, 'Today is the first day of the rest of your life'? Well, that's true of every day except one, the day you die."
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2000
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American Beauty
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"Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. they might be saying the same thing over here, but it sounds better in French."
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1952
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An American in Paris
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"That sex was the most fun I've ever had without laughing."
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1978
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Annie Hall
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"When you give me health insurance, workers' comp, and a 401k, then you can tell me when I work."
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2025
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Anora
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"If i'm doing a fake movie, it's gonna be a fake hit."
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2013
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Argo
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"And furthermore, you play an abominable game of whist. Good day, sir."
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1957
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Around the World in 80 Days
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"Your eyes are full of hate, forty-one. That's good. Hate keeps a man alive. It gives him strength."
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1960
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Ben-Hur
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"People, they love blood. They love action. Not this talky, depressing, philosophical bullshit."
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2015
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Birdman (Or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
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"What will you do with that freedom? Will you fight?"
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1996
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Braveheart
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"Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine."
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1944
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Casablanca
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"There should never be any good reason for neglecting someone that you love."
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1934
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Cavalcade
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"I believe God made me for a purpose, but He also made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure."
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1982
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Chariots of Fire
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"There's only one business where that's no problem at all."
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2003
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Chicago
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"Sugar, if we all took root and squatted, there would never be any new country."
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1932
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Cimarron
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"I can't do my job unless you do yours. And I certainly don't need a lesson in failure from someone who's too afraid to even try."
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2022
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CODA
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"Look at me. You embarrass me. You embarrass yourself."
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2006
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Crash
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"I am Wind in His Hair. Do you see that I am your friend? Can you see that you will always be my friend?"
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1991
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Dances with Wolves
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"I taught some of the stupidest children God ever put on the face of this earth and all of them could read well enough to find a name on a tombstone."
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1990
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Driving Miss Daisy
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"So, even though you have broken my heart yet again, I wanted to say, in another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you."
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2023
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Everything Everywhere All At Once
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"You have to do the best with what God gave you."
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1995
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Forrest Gump
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"Nobody ever lies about being lonely."
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1954
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From Here to Eternity
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"They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me, then they will have my dead body. NOT MY OBEDIENCE!"
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1983
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Gandhi
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"I know dear, and some of your other best friends are Methodist, but you never bother to say it."
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1948
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Gentleman's Agreement
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"I'd rather be miserable with you than miserable without you."
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1959
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Gigi
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"How dare you show your back to me? Slave! You will remove your helmet and tell me your name."
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2001
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Gladiator
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"I'm sure that the way to say what I'd like to say will occur to me after you've gone."
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1945
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Going My Way
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"I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands."
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1940
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Gone with the Wind
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"Believe me, Mr. Kingelein, a man who is not with a woman is a dead man."
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1933
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Grand Hotel
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"You know, my father used to say, whatever you do, do it 100% When you work, work. When you laugh, laugh. When you eat, eat like its your last meal."
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2019
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Green Book
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"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."
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1949
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Hamlet
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"It is with me now, so many years later. And it makes me think of so much that is good, that is gone."
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1942
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How Green was my Valley
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"I got the motive which is money and the body which is dead."
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1968
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In the Heat of the Night
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"I want to see what love looks like when it's triumphant. I haven't had a good laugh in a week."
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1935
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It Happened One Night
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"Daddy's got to bring home the bacon! Not only does he bring home the bacon, but, he's got to cook it too."
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1980
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Kramer vs. Kramer
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"Truly, for some men nothing is written unless THEY write it."
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1963
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Lawrence of Arabia
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"See, dogs like us, we ain't such dogs as we think we are."
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1956
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Marty
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"I'm walking here! I'm walking here!"
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1970
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Midnight Cowboy
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"I never got my shot. Because of you Maggie got her shot. If she dies today you know what her last thought would be? I think I did all right."
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2005
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Million Dollar Baby
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"You ain't got to love me, but you gonna know that I love you."
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2017
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Moonlight
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"He was beheaded! Such things happen in the best families. In fact, usually in the best families."
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1943
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Mrs. Miniver
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"I'll live to see you - all of you - hanging from the highest yardarm in the british fleet."
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1936
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Mutiny on the Bounty
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"Come on, Dover! Come on, Dover! Move your bloomin' arse!"
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1965
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My Fair Lady
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"What you got ain't nothin' new. This country's hard on people. You can't stop what's coming. It ain't all waiting on you. That's vanity."
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2008
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No Country for Old Men
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"It's strange that you encourage people to invest their whole live savings, go into debt, just to buy a house they can't afford."
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2021
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Nomadland
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"I thieved for you when I was half his age and it's your dirty work I've been doing ever since."
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1969
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Oliver!
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"You like black girls? I love 'em. I love 'em!"
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2026
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One Battle After Another
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"Conscience... that stuff can drive you nuts!"
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1955
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On the Waterfront
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"You fooled them. You fooled them all Chief!"
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1976
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One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
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"Amateurs seek the sun. Get eaten. Power stays in the shadows."
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2024
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Oppenheimer
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"Maybe you were stronger. Did it ever occur to you that you might have been stronger?"
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1981
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Ordinary People
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"It's an odd feeling, farewell. There is such envy in it. Men go off to be tested, for courage. And if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness."
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1986
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Out of Africa
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"If I had all this I would be kinder."
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2020
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Parasite
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"Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for this country."
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1971
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Patton: A Salute to a Rebel
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"Excuses are like assholes, Taylor, everybody got one."
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1987
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Platoon
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"I'm an excellent driver."
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1989
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Rain Man
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"She's spoiled, Mr de Winter. That's her trouble. Most girls would give their eyes for the chance to see Monte!"
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1941
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Rebecca
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"He doesn't know it's a damn show! He thinks it's a damn fight!"
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1977
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Rocky
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"This list... is an absolute good. The list is life. All around its margins lies the gulf."
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1994
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Schindler's List
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"I know something of a woman in a man's profession. Yes, by God, I do know about that."
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1999
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Shakespeare in Love
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"What? Am I nervous? It's you who's in the hot seat, my friend!"
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2009
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Slumdog Millionaire
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"Which story do you want us to write? Because we're writing one of them."
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2016
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Spotlight
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"Do you have any reaction at all to my telling you I love you?"
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1984
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Terms of Endearment
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"When you're in love with a married man, you shouldn't wear mascara."
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1961
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The Apartment
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"If only he could talk."
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2012
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The Artist
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"You wrote me that when you got home, you and I were going to be married. If you wrote that once, you wrote it a hundred times. Isn't that true?"
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1947
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The Best Years of Our Lives
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"I've been thinking. Tomorrow it will be 28 years to the day that I've been in the service. 28 years in peace and war. I don't suppose I've been at home more than 10 months in all that time. Still, it's been a good life."
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1958
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
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"Well, we aren't leavin' this town, 'til we get a flash of Babe Ruth and Grant's Tomb."
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1930
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The Broadway Melody
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"You wanna play games? All right, I'll play your f***ing games."
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1979
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The Deer Hunter
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"My theory on feds is that they're like mushrooms, feed 'em shit and keep 'em in the dark. You girls have a good day."
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2007
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The Departed
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"You speak so many bloody languages, and you never want to talk."
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1997
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The English Patient
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"You wanna play 'hide the salami' with his old lady?"
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1972
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The French Connection
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"Only don't tell me you're innocent. Because it insults my intelligence and makes me very angry."
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1973
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The Godfather
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"I don't feel I have to wipe everybody out, Tom. Just my enemies."
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1975
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The Godfather Part II
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"If I can give Belasco four dollars for silk stockings made of cotton, I can give Ziegfeld a little more for a mink coat made of skunk."
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1937
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The Great Ziegfeld
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"Buttons! If that detective sees you doing this, he won't need *fingerprints*!"
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1953
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The Greatest Show on Earth
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"There's enough bang in there to send us all to Jesus. I'm gonna die, I wanna die comfortable."
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2010
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The Hurt Locker
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"It's 'Your Majesty' the first time. After that, it's ma'am, as in 'ham'. Not 'ma'am', as in 'palm'."
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2011
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The King's Speech
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"If you cannot say what you mean, Your Majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says."
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1988
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The Last Emperor
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"Life is tricky."
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1938
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The Life of Emile Zola
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"My friends. You bow to no one."
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2004
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The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King |
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"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation!"
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1946
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The Lost Weekend
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"I'm not competitive, I don't want an intricate, beautiful thing destroyed!"
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2018
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The Shape of Water
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"I've no plans to call on you, Clarice. The world is more interesting with you in it."
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1992
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The Silence of the Lambs
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"Only grown-up men are scared of women."
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1966
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The Sound of Music
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"After what happened to Luther, I don't think I can get more than two, three hundred guys."
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1974
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The Sting
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"Don't you do that, don't say your goodbyes. Not yet, do you understand me?"
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1998
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Titanic
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"It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will... in a dull man."
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1964
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Tom Jones
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"I don't deserve this... to die like this. I was building a house."
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1993
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Unforgiven
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"All of you! You all killed him! And my brother, and Riff. Not with bullets, or guns, with hate. Well now I can kill, too, becuse now I have hate!"
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1962
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West Side Story
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"Hey, if youse guys need kissin' *I'll* kiss you - wit' a gun-butt!"
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1929
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Wings
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"Lincoln said, "With malice toward none, with charity to all." Nowadays they say, "Think the way I do or I'll bomb the daylights outta you."
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1939
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You can't take it with you
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