The Calla Lilies Are in Bloom Again Such a Strange Flower

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• Terry Randall : [delivering her opening speech in the play within the moving-picture show] The calla lilies are in bloom once more. Such a foreign flower, suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my nuptials day and now I identify them here in retentivity of something that has died.

• Terry Randall : I run into that, in improver to your other charms, yous have that insolence generated by an inferior upbringing.

  Jean Maitland : Hmm! Fancy clothes, fancy language and everything!

  Terry Randall : Unfortunately, I learned to speak English correctly.

  Jean Maitland : That won't be of much use to you here. We all talk pig latin.

• Terry Randall : [With a superior air, leaving the crowded living room of girls later many snappy wisecracks and lively banter among the group] It'd be a terrific innovation if yous could get your minds stretched a picayune further than the adjacent wisecrack.

• Terry Randall : [giving her curtain speech at the cease of a trimphant opening night performance of the play within the movie] The person you should exist applauding died a few hours agone. I hope that wherever she is, she knows and understands and forgives.

• Terry Randall : [entering the boarding house after trying the incorrect door] How many doors are there to this place?

  Jean Maitland : Well, there's the trap door, the humidor, and the cuspidor. How many doors would y'all similar?

• Jean Maitland : Practise you lot listen if I inquire a personal question?

  Terry Randall : Another one?

  Jean Maitland : Are these trunks full of bodies?

  Terry Randall : Just those, but I don't intend to unpack them.

• Jean Maitland : Nosotros could leave the trunks here and sleep in the hall. There'southward no utilise crowding the trunks.

  Terry Randall : [coming together sarcasm with sarcasm] I don't know what we're going to do when the wolf hounds arrive. I hope you don't mind animals.

  Jean Maitland : Oh, non at all. I roomed with a great many of them before.

• Terry Randall : The trouble with you is y'all're all trying to be comics. Don't y'all ever take anything seriously?

  Judy Canfield : Afterward you've saturday around for a year trying to become a chore, you won't accept anything seriously either.

  Terry Randall : Well, do yous accept to merely sit down effectually and practice nil about it?

  Judy Canfield : Maybe it's in the blood. My granddaddy saturday effectually until he was 80.

  Terry Randall : Well, my grandad didn't. And if he and a lot of others hadn't crossed the land in a covered wagon, there'd still be Indians living in Wichita.

  Eve : Who practise you lot remember's living at that place now?

• Terry Randall : Anyhow, I wanted to show that I could act.

  Anthony Powell : You are a faker!

  Terry Randall : Oh, nosotros're both fakers. Isn't faking the essence of acting?

  Anthony Powell : Well, it may apply to acting, but it does not use to me.

  Terry Randall : You lot, you're a bigger faker than I am.

  Anthony Powell : That's libel!

  Terry Randall : Not if I can prove it.

• Kay Hamilton : Here, you sit downwardly and I'll get you some tea.

  Terry Randall : The condemned woman drank her hearty supper.

  Kay Hamilton : I felt the same manner. I felt like running and hiding from everyone. But, later on that opening speech, at that place'south a thrill y'all'll never forget. Information technology's a thrill that just comes one time.

  Terry Randall : Thrill? I can't make out whether information technology's a thrill or desperation.

  Kay Hamilton : It's both.

• Terry Randall : You lot audio very superior. What have y'all ever done in the theater?

  Eve : Everything but flare-up out of a pie at a Rotarian banquet.

• Jean Maitland : Did you ever dance with ane of those Seattle romeos?

  Terry Randall : Maybe. I don't remember.

  Jean Maitland : Well, if you lot did, yous'd retrieve information technology all right.

  Terry Randall : Why practice you lot go out with them?

  Jean Maitland : I'll seize with teeth, why practise I? They not only bound on you just they bore you lot to decease.

• Jean Maitland : Why don't you sell some of those apparel and live in a decent place?

  Terry Randall : Isn't this a decent place?

  Jean Maitland : No!

• Jean Maitland : Why shouldn't I go out with him? I remember he's very charming.

  Terry Randall : So are snakes.

• Anthony Powell : Do you lot ever stop asking questions?

  Terry Randall : I merely similar to know why...

  Anthony Powell : You don't have to know anything. I'll do the talking.

• Terry Randall : I'yard non an emotional person.

  Anthony Powell : You will be when I get through with you. I'll mold you into one.

  Terry Randall : I don't want to be molded! I believe in acting with my brain.

  Anthony Powell : Well, I'll mold you ane of those too.

• Terry Randall : Tony, darling, control yourself.

  Anthony Powell : Don't Tony darling me!

• Anthony Powell : You lot mean you'd jeopardize your own reputation? Aren't you a kind of a Girl Sentinel?

  Terry Randall : But a girl who uses her brain.

• Terry Randall : There's an old proverb that you don't have to exist a hen to know a bad egg.

• Anthony Powell : Miss Randall, I'll take to inquire you to pay attending to the Manager.

  Terry Randall : Well, what am I supposed to do? Walk around similar a puppet or employ my intelligence?

  Anthony Powell : You're to do what your told!

  Terry Randall : Don't yell at me!

  Anthony Powell : I am yelling at you!

• Eve : I'll never put my trust in males again.

  Terry Randall : What happened to Eve?

  Jean Maitland : She's brokenhearted. Henry's in a cat hospital.

  Terry Randall : An accident?

  Jean Maitland : He just had a litter of kittens.

  Terry Randall : Well, that'due south easy to solve. Change his proper name to Henrietta.

• Susan : Hang onto your chairs girls, we're going to become another load of Shakespeare.

  Terry Randall : Is it against the rules of the business firm to discuss the classics?

  Eve : No. Go right ahead. I won't accept my sleeping pill this evening.

• Miss Luther : I tin can't tell you lot how interested I was in your discussion of "Twelfth Night." Information technology was so intelligent.

  Terry Randall : Oh, thanks very much. I'yard agape that the rest of the inmates didn't share your enthusiasm.

  Miss Luther : Barbarians! They've had no training, my dearest, no training!

• Terry Randall : I'one thousand start to feel that there'south something definitely incorrect with me.

  Kay Hamilton : You're different, that's all.

  Terry Randall : Well, now, why? I eat the same nutrient. I sleep in the same kind of bed. I've fifty-fifty got a crease across my dorsum from that lumpy mattress. And I'thou doing my best to pick upward their slang. Though, I'chiliad not so hot. How's that? Not and then hot!

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