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Movie Quote of the Day – Harriet the Spy, 1996 (dir. Bronwen Hughes)
Harriet M. Welsch: It’s too hard. It’s not worth it.
Ole Golly: Aw, never say that, Harriet. You’re worth it. You’re an individual, and you know something? That makes people nervous. And it’s going to keep making people nervous your whole life.
Harriet M. Welsch: My whole life?
Ole Golly: Yep.
Harriet M. Welsch: What do I do?
Ole Golly: You stay true to Harriet and you accept the cost.
Movie Quote of the Day – Whip It, 2009 (dir. Drew Barrymore)
Bliss Cavendar: I just wanna tell you all that you’re my new heroes.
Maggie Mayhem: It’s your first time here?
Bliss Cavendar: Yeah.
Maggie Mayhem: Well, put some skates on, be your own hero.
Movie Quote of the Day – Wadjda, 2013 (dir. Haifaa al-Mansour)
Mother: I want you to be the happiest person in the world. You’re all I have left in this world.
Movie Quote of the Day – Arrête ou je continue, 2014 (dir. Sophie Fillières)
Pomme: When I met you, I told you all my flaws.
Pierre: Not all of them. Not really.
Pomme: Not including the ones I’ve developed with you. Bastard.
Movie Quote of the Day – After Hours, 1984 (dir. Jane Campion)
Sandra: Are you worried by Mr. Phillips?
Penny: He’s worried by me.
Sandra: Oh. How’s that?
Penny: He’s afraid of anyone with an opinion. He’s a very frightened man. Anyway, I wouldn’t have anything he wants.
Movie Quote of the Day – Itty Bitty Titty Committee, 2007 (dir. Jamie Babbit)
Sadie: Look, Anna, what we do is really simple. We reclaim public space for women.
Anna: Why, though?
Shulamith: Because it’s important. Most people don’t realize how important it is. You may or may not have noticed that the public arena is entirely dominated by phallocentric imagery, chauvinistic political leaders, male fantasies of women. Most women aren’t even aware how much it affects them.
Movie Quote of the Day – We’ve Met Before, 2015 (dir. Yulin Kuang)
Jasper: You’re more than a little intuitive.
Alice: Well, I don’t see the future or anything. Just. . .glimpses of possibilities.
Jasper: Is that what I am? A possibility?
Alice: No. I decided on you a long time ago.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Secret Garden, 1993 (dir. Agnieszka Holland)
Mary: If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
Movie Quote of the Day – Serena, 2015 (dir. Susanne Bier)
Serena: You hurt me. You said that I was enough for you.
Pemberton: You are enough for me.
Serena: You’re lying.
Movie Quote of the Day – Meet Me in Montenegro, 2015 (dir. Alex Holdridge & Linnea Saasen)
Anderson: Maybe when I was young I could fall in love at the drop of a hat, but as you get older you just. . .you don’t feel as much.
Stephen: You don’t feel as much?
Anderson: Yeah. I’d love my heart to race, but it just can’t.
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