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Movie Quote of the Day – Cadillac Records, 2008 (dir. Darnell Martin)
Geneva Wade: You’re trouble, you know that?
Muddy Waters: I know it. How ’bout you?
Movie Quote of the Day – Kung Fu Panda, 2008 (dir. Mark Osborne, John Stevenson)
Mr. Ping: The secret ingredient is… nothing!
Po: Huh?
Mr. Ping: You heard me. Nothing! There is no secret ingredient.
Po: Wait, wait. . .it’s just plain old noodle soup? You don’t add some kind of special sauce or something?
Mr. Ping: Don’t have to. To make something special you just have to believe it’s special.
Po: There is no secret ingredient. . .
Movie Quote of the Day – Salt of this Sea, 2008 (dir. Annemarie Jacir)
Emad: If you had a child, would he get an American passport? So he could go wherever he wanted?
Soraya: Sure. If I wanted a baby.
Emad: I think it’d be nice to have a kid. Someone with your name and your blood. Doing the things you couldn’t.
Movie Quote of the Day – Mamma Mia!, 2008 (dir. Phyllida Lloyd)
Harry: Donna must be tearing her hair out doing this wedding on her own. What would the father of the bride normally do?
Tanya: Pay. [beat] Though my dad drew the line at my third.
Movie Quote of the Day – Wendy and Lucy, 2008 (dir. Kelly Reichardt)
Wendy: Not a lot of jobs around here, huh?
Security Guard: I’ll say. I don’t know what the people do all day. Used to be a mill. But that’s been closed a long time now. Don’t know what they do.
Wendy: You can’t get a job without an address anyway. . .or a phone.
Security Guard: You can’t get an address without an address. You can’t get a job without a job. It’s all fixed.
Wendy: That’s why I’m going to Alaska. I hear they need people.
Security Guard: I hear it’s really pretty up there.
Wendy: Yeah.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Secret Life of Bees, 2008 (dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood)
June: It’s ironic how white people hate us so much when so many of them been raised by black women.
Movie Quote of the Day – Frozen River, 2008 (dir. Courtney Hunt)
Ray Eddy: What if a trooper stops us?
Lila Littlewolf: They’re not gonna stop you, you’re white.
Movie Quote of the Day – Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, 2008 (dir. Bharat Nalluri)
Delysia: [during an air-raid drill] Guinevere, I’m scared!
Guinevere Pettigrew: It’s just a drill, I’m sure it’s just a drill.
Delysia: But it won’t always be, will it? We’re going to war, aren’t we?
Guinevere Pettigrew: Yes we are. And that is why you must not waste a second of this precious life. Listen to me. Once I too had ambitions. Not your grand ones, simple ambitions. Marriage, children and a house of our own. He died, in the mud in France. A good, solid man. You would call him dull, no doubt, but he smiled whenever he saw me and we could’ve built a life on that. Your heart knows the truth, Delysia. Trust it.
Movie Quote of the Day – Revolutionary Road, 2008 (dir. Sam Mendes)
Mrs. Helen Givings: April, I’m sorry, I’m so sorry.
John Givings: Alright! Sorry. Sorry! Sorry! Oh, oh, oh ma, have I said sorry enough times? Damn! I am sorry too, I’m just about the sorriest bastard I know, but you get right down to it, I don’t have a hell of a lot to be glad about, do I? Oh but hey, know what? I am glad about one thing. Wanna know what I’m glad about? I’m glad I’m not gonna be that kid.
Movie Quote of the Day – Twilight, 2008 (dir. Catherine Hardwicke)
Edward Cullen: What’s in Jacksonville?
Bella Swan: How did you know about that?
Edward Cullen: I. . . You didn’t answer my question.
Bella Swan: Look, You haven’t answered any of mine, so. . . You don’t even say hi to me.
Edward Cullen: Hi.
Bella Swan: Are you gonna to tell me how you stopped the van?
Edward Cullen: Yeah.I had an adrenaline rush. It’s very common. You can Google it.
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