Ranald MacDougall quotes

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Personally, Veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea: they eat their young. Personally, Veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea: they eat their young.
Leave something on me! I might catch cold. Leave something on me! I might catch cold.
Everybody thinks detectives do nothing but ask questions. But detectives have souls the same as anyone else.... You know, Mrs. Ber... - MORE Everybody thinks detectives do nothing but ask questions. But detectives have souls the same as anyone else.... You know, Mrs. Beragon, being a detective is like, well, like making an automobile. You just take all the pieces and put them together one by one. First thing you know you've got an automobile. Or a murderer.
Mildred Pierce: You look down on me because I work for a living, don't you? You always have. All right, I work. I cook food and se... - MORE Mildred Pierce: You look down on me because I work for a living, don't you? You always have. All right, I work. I cook food and sell it and make a profit on it, which, I might point out, you're not too proud to share with me.
Monte Beragon: Yes, I take money from you, Mildred. But not enough to make me like kitchens or cooks. They smell of grease.
Mildred Pierce: I don't notice you shrinking away from a fifty- dollar bill because it smells of grease.
Mildred Pierce: And just what do you do, Mr. Beragon?
Monte Beragon: I loaf. Oh, in a decorative and highly charming manner.<...
- MORE Mildred Pierce: And just what do you do, Mr. Beragon?
Monte Beragon: I loaf. Oh, in a decorative and highly charming manner.
Mildred Pierce: Is that all?
Monte Beragon: With me, loafing is a science.
Monte Beragon: When I'm close to you like this, there's a sound in the air like the beating of wings. Do you know what that is? - MORE Monte Beragon: When I'm close to you like this, there's a sound in the air like the beating of wings. Do you know what that is?
Mildred Pierce: No, what?
Monte Beragon: My heart, beating like a schoolboy's.
Mildred Pierce: Is it? I thought it was mine.
Veda Pierce: It's all right, Miriam, she's my mother.
Miriam: No kiddin'. I didn't know you had a mother....
- MORE Veda Pierce: It's all right, Miriam, she's my mother.
Miriam: No kiddin'. I didn't know you had a mother.
Veda: Everybody has a mother.
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