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Clyde Fitch, though you may not think so,
was well before my time.
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I always deny thatyou were in Our American
Cousin the night Lincoln was shot.
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- I don't thinkthat's funny.
- Of course it is.
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This is all too laughable to be anything else.
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You know what I feel
about your age obsession.
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And this getting into a jealous froth because
I spent ten minutes with a stage-struck kid.
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- 20!
- 30 minutes, 40 minutes. What of it?
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Stage-struck. She's a young lady of qualities.
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And I'm fed up with both
the young lady and her qualities.
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Studying me as if I were a play or a blueprint.
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How I walk, talk, think, act, sleep.
:39:36
How can you take offence at a kid
trying to be like her ideal?
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Stop calling her a kid.
:39:44
As it happens, there are
particular aspects of my life
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to which I would like to maintain
sole and exclusive rights and privileges.
:39:52
- For instance, what?
- For instance, you.
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This is my cue to take you
in my arms and reassure you.
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But I'm not going to. I'm too mad.
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- Guilty!
- Mad!
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There are certain characteristics
for which you are famous, on stage and off.
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I love you for some and in spite of others.
I haven't let those become too important.
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They're part of your equipment for getting
along in what is called "our environment".
:40:17
You have to keep your teeth sharp, all right.
:40:20
But I will not have you
sharpen them on me, or on Eve.
:40:23
- What about her teeth? Her fangs?
- She hasn't cut them yet and you know it!
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So when you start judging
an idealistic, dreamy-eyed kid
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by the bar-room, Benzedrine standards of
this megalomaniac society, I won't have it!
:40:35
Eve Harrington has never by word,
look, thought or suggestion
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indicated anything to me but adoration
for you and happiness at our being in love.
:40:43
To intimate anything else spells a paranoiac
insecurity thatyou should be ashamed of.
:40:48
Cut. Print it. What happens in the next reel?
Do I get dragged off to the snake pits?
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Miss Channing?
:40:57
The hors d'oeuvres are here.
Is there anything else I can do?