Teacher's Pet (1958)
Doris Day: Erica Stone
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Quotes
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James Gannon : How could you give up a real newspaper job for teaching?
Erica Stone : Well, that's a very good question, Mr. Gallagher. Maybe for the same reason that occasionally a musician wants to be a conductor, he wants to hear a hundred people play music the way he hears it.
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Erica Stone : Newspapers can't compete in reporting what happened any more, but they can and should tell the public why it happened.
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Erica Stone : As my father used to say, a reporter has to do a lot of sweating before he earns the right to perspire.
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Erica Stone : Look at this. Blood and sex. Journalism is so much more than blood and sex.
James Gannon : You liked my story about the murder. That's blood, isn't it?
Erica Stone : Wait a minute, I didn't say I disapprove of blood. It's just that...
James Gannon : How do you feel about sex?
Erica Stone : Well, I'm all for it. But some...
[she suddenly stares at him with a questioning look]
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Erica Stone : As my father always said, "Education teaches a man how to spell experience."
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Erica Stone : You're stupid, and I think you're proud of it. And that makes you cruel.
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Erica Stone : Well, Kipling said it quite well in a poem that he wrote: "I keep six honest serving men, they taught me all I knew. Their...
James Gannon : Their names are: What and why and when and how and where and who.
