Hope and Glory (1987)
David Hayman: Clive
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Quotes
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Clive Rowen : Billy, before I go there's something I want to tell you. You're not quite old enough, but, well...
[he produces a cricket ball]
Clive Rowen : ...it's the googly. Your hand is too small to master it, but you can make a start.
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Clive Rowen : [Billy bowls] That was a googly!
Mac : A googly?
Grandfather George : You didn't spot it, Clive.
Clive Rowen : I taught him how. And now he turns it against me.
Grandfather George : The law of life. Cruel, isn't it?
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Clive Rowen : [describing his Army duties] I'll be typing for England!
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Clive Rowen : I made a mess of it all. I'm such a bloody fool.
Mac : You always were, Smiler. Steady the Buffs.
Clive Rowen : Bugger the Buffs.
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Clive Rowen : It's German jam. Well, it's all right. It came from a German ship. Got sunk, this stuff washed ashore. Crates of it. Jam. Our boys found it on the beach by the rifle range.
Grace Rowan : We don't know anything about it.
Clive Rowen : Well, it's off ration. We know that.
Grace Rowan : Well, how do we know they didn't plant it there? They know we are mad on jam. They could poison half the country!
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Grace Rowan : Clive, fetch the doctor.
Clive Rowen : Are you ill?
Grace Rowan : Not me. Dawn. She's in labor!
Clive Rowen : Hot water! Lots of hot water.
Mac : What for?
Clive Rowen : I don't know. They always say that in the pictures.
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Dawn : Where are my stockings? I can't find my stockings.
Grace Rowan : Dawn, pet, they've started a war.
Dawn : Have they? That's not my fault. I still need my stockings, don't I?
Clive Rowen : I don't want to hear about your stockings!
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Bill Rowen : It's an air raid!
Clive Rowen : Good God. They've started already. Air raid! Get up! Stay down!
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Clive Rowen : Now... You know the leg break, right? And the off break. Now, the googly looks like a leg break but it's really an off break. Got it? Like this.
Bill Rowen : That's like telling fibs.
Clive Rowen : That's it. When you tell a lie, you want to get away with it. But when someone else does, you want to find them out. A good batsman will spot a googly. A good bowler will hide it. Always remember that, son.
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Grace Rowan : Has Sue got it right?
Clive Rowen : What's that?
Grace Rowan : You joined up.
Clive Rowen : Oh, that.
Grace Rowan : I wish you could have told me yourself.
Clive Rowen : Oh, Grace, it's not for long. They say it'll be over by Christmas.