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Movie Quote of the Day – Spring Parade, 1940 (dir. Henry Koster)
Ilonka Tolnay: Do you own this place?
Headwaiter: No, I don’t.
Ilonka Tolnay: Well, when I buy, I like to buy from the owner, not the help.
Headwaiter: But, please, the owner here does not take orders at the table.
Ilonka Tolnay: Probably because he’s ashamed of his prices.
Corporal Harry Marten: Please, this is Vienna. Everything’s a little higher.
Ilonka Tolnay: Asparagus is asparagus, even in Vienna.
Movie Quote of the Day – Christmas Holiday, 1944 (dir. Robert Siodmak)
Robert Manette: You know, sometimes when I listen to it I feel that, that there’s nothing that man is capable of that I can’t do. Then it stops and it’s over.
Abigail Martin: Oh, not for me. When I hear good music I feel, well I feel as though something had been added to my life that wasn’t there before.
Robert Manette: I’d like that. Think you can teach me?
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