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Movie Quote of the Day – CB4, 1993 (dir. Tamra Davis)
Virgil Robinson: Any person who would defile America’s pastime by wearing a baseball cap backwards.. . well, that’s an evil that speaks for itself!
Movie Quote of the Day – Lick the Star, 1998 (dir. Sofia Coppola)
Chloe: What happened?
Kate: I’m a non-student for the rest of the year.
Chloe: What a tragedy.
Movie Quote of the Day – Krylya (Wings), 1966 (dir. Larisa Shepitko)
Shura: Before the war, I lived in Moscow. But after the evacuation, I found myself here. So it goes.
Nadezhda Petrukhina: I have friends in Moscow. I haven’t seen them in about five years.
Shura: It would be great to see Moscow.
Nadezhda Petrukhina: Funny thing is, sometimes I set down to write them a letter and nothing comes of it. There’s nothing interesting to write about. I feel I should make something up.
Shura: Nothing interesting in your life? I would never have thought.
Nadezhda Petrukhina: Seems like I’m always running around, but it’s all for nothing. There’s no pleasure in it for me or for anyone else. That’s the way it goes.
Shura: I don’t know. I enjoy life. It’s just a shame that time goes by so fast.
Movie Quote of the Day – Tirez la langue, mademoiselle, 2013 (dir. Axelle Ropert)
Judith Durance: What are you doing here alone?
Dr. Boris Pizarnik: I feel bad. I lost a patient.
Judith Durance: Oh, I’m sorry. He died?
Dr. Boris Pizarnik: No, he’s not dead. He hates me.
Movie Quote of the Day – Catch and Release, 2006 (dir. Susannah Grant)
Gray: You are not who I thought you were.
Fritz: Yeah, well, neither are you.
Movie Quote of the Day – Archipelago, 2010 (dir. Joanna Hogg)
Christopher: It’s great to get this kind of degree of chaos. ‘Cause chaos gives ideas which you may not have found if you’d tried to control it completely.
Patricia: Oh. yeah. Well, that’s forever going to be the difficult part for me.
Movie Quote of the Day – Wanda, 1970 (dir. Barbara Loden)
Wanda Goronski: I don’t have anything. I never did have anything. Never will have anything.
Norman Dennis: You’re stupid.
Wanda Goronski: I’m stupid?
Norman Dennis: If you don’t want anything, you won’t have anything, and if you don’t have anything, you’re nothing. You may as well be dead. You’re not even a citizen of the United States.
Wanda Goronski: I guess I’m dead, then.
Movie Quote of the Day – Welcome to Me, 2015 (dir. Shira Piven)
Gina: You’re a terrible friend. You only care about your own pain. I’m sorry you hurt so bad, but that doesn’t mean other people aren’t vulnerable or sensitive. And just because you made a career out of it, doesn’t mean other people don’t have feelings.
Movie Quote of the Day – Better Than Chocolate, 1999 (dir. Anne Wheeler)
Lila: I’m too old for this.
Judy: No, you are not too old. You are pissed off! See, rage gets trapped in the body and it can make you feel old and tired. That’s why you have to let it out. Oh, like this! Ahhh! [throws paint, exhales]
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