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Movie Quote of the Day – Mandalay, 1934 (dir. Michael Curtiz)
Spot White: Haven’t we met before, Colonel?
Col. Thomas Dawson: No, this is my first look at you.
Spot White: Is it overwhelming you?
Movie Quote of the Day – Night Nurse, 1931 (dir. William A. Wellman)
Maloney: There’s only one guy in the world that can do a nurse any good and that’s a patient with dough! Just catch one of them with a high fever and a low pulse and make him think you saved his life and you’ll be getting somewhere.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Petrified Forest, 1936 (dir. Archie Mayo)
Alan Squier: The trouble with me, Gabrielle, is I, I belong to a vanishing race. I’m one of the intellectuals.
Gabrielle Maple: That, that means you’ve got brains!
Alan Squier: Hmmm. Yes. Brains without purpose. Noise without sound, shape without substance.
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