Night Moves (1975)
Jennifer Warren: Paula
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Quotes
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Paula : How do you resist Delly?
Harry Moseby : Oh, I just think good, clean thoughts, like Thanksgiving, George Washington's teeth.
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Paula : Where were you when Kennedy got shot?
Harry Moseby : Which Kennedy?
Paula : Any Kennedy.
Harry Moseby : When the president got shot, I was on my way to San Diego. Football game. When Bobby got shot, I was sitting in a car waiting for a guy to come out of a house with his girlfriend. Working on a divorce case. One of those times I wish I was in another business.
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Paula : When we're all as free as Delly there'll be rioting in the streets.
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Harry Moseby : What'd you do before this?
Paula : [coyly] This and that...
Paula : [pauses, gives him a look] I taught school, I... kept house. I waited tables... I did a little stripping, I did a little hooking... and I trod a lot of water.
Harry Moseby : Sounds kind of bleak. Or is it just the way you tell it?
Paula : [sharply] Do you ask these questions because you wanna' know the answer, or is it just something you think a detective should do?
Harry Moseby : I just want you to know I'm here.
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Paula : Oh, that's a beauty.
Harry Moseby : Yeah, but he didn't see it. He played something else and he lost. He must have regretted it every day of his life. I know I would have. As a matter of fact I do regret it, and I wasn't even born yet.
Paula : That's no excuse.
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Paula : [of the uninhibited Delly] Did she offer you the key to the city?
Harry Moseby : Well, no. It was, uh, more like a sightseeing tour.
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Paula : Do you ask these questions because you wanna know the answer or is it just something you think a detective should do?
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Harry Moseby : [observing Paula, who is feeding dolphins in a special pen] What do you got 'em for?
Paula : Well, there's a big demand for dolphins. Lots of people want 'em, you'd be surprised. People buy them for their swimming pools. They think it's chic to have a dolphin for a pet. Like that craze for baby alligators in New York years back. When they got bored with 'em, they flushed them down the john. Now they got a sewage system swarming with blind, albino, shit-eating alligators.
Harry Moseby : [listening with a bemused look on his face] I'm not too sure I believe that.
Paula : You're not one of those "intent on the truth" types, are you?
Harry Moseby : Well, not religious about it, no, but I...
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Harry Moseby : How long you been on the Keys?
Paula : Long enough.
Harry Moseby : And you don't like it?
Paula : I like the sun... I'm convalescing.
Harry Moseby : What from?
Paula : A terrible childhood. My father used to blow his nose with his fingers.
Harry Moseby : That'll do it every time.