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The Perks of Being A Wallflower (Patrick)

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower

Mean Girls (Regina George)

Mean Girls

Heathers (Heather Chandler)

Heathers

Easy A (Olive)

Easy A (Olive)

OLIVE: Is chivalry dead? I want John Cusack holding a boombox outside my window. I want to ride off on a lawnmower with Patrick Dempsey. I want Jake from Sixteen Candles waiting outside the church for me. And I want Judd Nelson walking across the school parking lot thrusting his

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Invictus (Nelson Mandela)

Invictus (Nelson Mandela)

Out of the night that covers me, black as the pit from pole to pole / I thanks whatever gods may be, for my unconquerable soul. / In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud / Under the bludgeonings of fate, my head is bloody,

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Rounders (Mike McDermott)

Rounders (Mike McDermott)

Listen, here’s the thing, if you can’t spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker. Guys around here will tell you, you play for a living, it’s like any other job. You don’t gamble, you grind it out. Your goal is to

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American Pie (Jim"s Dad)

American Pie (Jim”s Dad)

JIM”S DAD: Son, I wanted to talk to you about what I think you were trying to do the other day. Now, you may have tried it in the shower, or maybe in bed at night, and not even known what you were doing. Or perhaps you”ve heard your friends

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The Glass Menagerie (Amanda Wingfield)

The Glass Menagerie (Amanda Wingfield)

I think you’re doing things you’re ashamed of and that’s why you act like this. I don’t believe that you go every night at the movies. Nobody goes to the movies night after night. Nobody in his right mind goes to the movies as often as you pretend to. People

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All the President's Men (Ben Bradlee)

All the President’s Men (Ben Bradlee)

You know once when I was reporting, Lyndon Johnson’s top guy gave me the word; they’re looking for a successor to J. Edgar Hoover. I wrote it and the day that it appeared, Johnson held a press conference and appointed Hoover the head of the FBI for life. When he

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