August 2009
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“That’s my family, Kay. It’s not me.”
– Michael (Al Pacino) talking to his girlfriend Kay (Diana Keaton) about family business. What’s he got to do with it? Nothing. That’s what he says. And it’s true. He broke with family tradition. He went to war, came back with the Navy Cross, and he’s got a girlfriend...
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Duke: [voice-over] How long could we maintain, I wondered. How long before one of us starts raving and jabbering at this boy? What will he think then? This same lonely desert was the last known home of the Manson family. Would he make that grim connection when my attorney starts screaming about bats and huge manta rays coming down on the car? If so -- well, we'll just have to cut his head off and bury him somewhere. Because it goes without saying that we can't turn him loose. He'd report us at once to some kind of outback Nazi law enforcement agency, and they'll run us down like dogs...
Duke: [out loud to himself] Jesus! Did I say that?
Duke: [voice-over] Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me?
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The Sopranos (Season 1/Episode 13)
Jimmy: I got enough cologne on?
Christopher: You smell like Paco Rabanne crawled up your ass and died in there.
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An American Werewolf in London (1981)
David: I'm a werewolf.
Alex: Are you alright?
David: I don't know. I'll let you know the next full moon.
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“Love means never having to say you’re sober.”
– Wise words by Jack Torrance (Steven Weber) in the three-part television series The Shining. Jack had a microscopic problem with alcohol in the past, and his wife — what’s her fucking problem? — starts breaking his balls… So Jack finds out a simple truth: Being drunk and being...
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“I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn’t...”
– Jack (Edward Norton) in David Fincher’s Fight Club.
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Title/Year: Fight Club/1990
Written by: Jim Uhls
Directed by: David Fincher
Starring: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter
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Brüno (2009)
Brüno: So you were never gay? It's ironic that you should have amazing blow job lips.
Man: These lips were made to praise Jesus.
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“You got perfect nipple placement, baby.”
– That’s what Trent (Travis Van Winkle) says after having a good look a Bree’s (Julianna Guill) naked twins in Marcus Nispel’s 2009 remake of Friday the 13th.
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Title/Year: Friday the 13th/2009
Written by: Screenplay by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift
Directed by: Marcus Nispel
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“So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized that ever since I started...”
– Peter (Ron Livingston) in Mike Judge’s Office Space. He’s talking to his hypnotherapist, Dr. Swanson, who’s gonna help him to slip deeper and deeper into a state of complete relaxation, a state where his worries, cares, and ambitions will be gone. And he succeeds. After this...
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Casablanca
Strasser: What is your nationality?
Rick: I'm a drunkard.
Renault: That makes Rick a citizen of the world.
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No Country for Old Men
Wells: Do you have any idea how crazy you are?
Chigurh: You mean the nature of this conversation?
Wells: I mean the nature of you.
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“The way your dad looked at it, this watch was your birthright. He’d be...”
– Captain Koons (Christopher Walken) talking to young Butch (Chandler Lindauer).
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Title/Year: Pulp Fiction/1994
Written by: Screenplay by Quentin Tarantino, Stories by Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary
Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman,...
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“This is paradise, I’m tellin’ you. This town’s like a great...”
– Tony Montana (Al Pacino) telling Manny (Steven Bauer) that he should have come years ago to Miami, he’d be a millionaire by now. And Manny? He’s got plans too: “You know what I want? I thought of this the other day. A line of blue jeans. With my name written on the back of...
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