Athena (1954)
Jane Powell: The Sisters: Athena
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Quotes
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The Sisters: Athena : Now if I may just have some watermelon rinds, wax paper, and fish heads, I'll get to work.
Beth Hallson : Wouldn't you prefer a cocktail?
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The Sisters: Athena : Peaches are snobs, they just love to have their appetites piqued.
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The Sisters: Athena : This is Grandpa's sassafras cure he got from an old Indian. There's never been a Ute with arthritis.
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The Sisters: Athena : Oh my, I'm sorry, but we can't ever mulch together.
Adam Calhorn Shaw : Well, if we can't, we can't.
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The Sisters: Athena : Oh, this is an interesting house. It's a decayed kind of architecture and thoroughly impractical. If you'll just tear out that whole side and put in a window, you'll bring the outside in.
Adam Calhorn Shaw : When I had this house built I told the architect to keep the outside out.
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The Sisters: Athena : I have six sisters and you'll like them all, but - it's Minerva, all right.
Johnny Nyle : Are they anything like you?
The Sisters: Athena : Oh, I'm the Ugly Ducking.
Johnny Nyle : That's good enough for me. When do I meet your sister?
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The Sisters: Athena : [singing] Life is fun if you vocalize, Full of sun if you vocalize, Re Do Ti Do, It's my credo...
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Adam Calhorn Shaw : You speak Japanese?
The Sisters: Athena : I can say, "I love you, let us be friends." I can say it in fifty-four different languages, and I'm working on African dialects.
Beth Hallson : I'm sure that's going to come in very handy.
Adam Calhorn Shaw : Well, according to Grandpa, we should learn to like everybody in the world.
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The Sisters: Athena : I'm so happy to have met you. You have such a lovely figure.
Beth Hallson : Why, thank you.
The Sisters: Athena : But you really shouldn't wear a girdle.
Beth Hallson : It's not a girdle, it's a foundation garment.
The Sisters: Athena : Your spine doesn't know the difference, it's all pinched in. Sooner or later you're going to have trouble with a loose disk.
Beth Hallson : You seem to have trouble with a loose tongue.
The Sisters: Athena : Oh, I am sorry. I always say things I think and I shouldn't. Forgive me?
Beth Hallson : I may say I will, but I won't.
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Grandpa Ulysses Mulvain : Let's have a rollickin' song, Honey. Something with a lot of zoom, zoom, zoom in it. I don't sing very well, but I great on the zoom, zoom, zoom.
Adam Calhorn Shaw : I can hardly wait.
The Sisters: Athena , The Sisters: Minerva , The Sisters: Niobe , The Sisters: Aphrodite , The Sisters: Calliope , The Sisters: Medea , The Sisters: Ceres , Johnny Nyle : [singing] Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah
Grandpa Ulysses Mulvain : Ah-ah-ah-ah
The Sisters: Athena : Life is fun if you harmonize
Grandpa Ulysses Mulvain , The Sisters: Athena , The Sisters: Minerva , The Sisters: Niobe , The Sisters: Aphrodite , The Sisters: Calliope , The Sisters: Medea , The Sisters: Ceres , Johnny Nyle : Full of sun if you harmonize, Re Do Ti Do, It's my credo...
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Adam Calhorn Shaw : Athena, people don't fall in love because of the stars.
The Sisters: Athena : Then why do they fall in love?
Adam Calhorn Shaw : Mutual interests, long acquaintances. Well, it just happens.
The Sisters: Athena : Then it might be the stars, mighten it?
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The Sisters: Athena : Tell Grandpa to give you a steam bath. And stop thinking, it always upsets you.
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The Sisters: Athena : We live very differently from other people. We live for happiness, beauty and decency.
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Mr. Grenville : Roast beef never hurt anyone. Try a piece, it's nice and rare.
The Sisters: Athena : That's not rare, it's wounded.
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The Sisters: Athena : [singing] I'm always on the ball and full of pep!
The Sisters: Minerva , The Sisters: Niobe , The Sisters: Aphrodite , The Sisters: Calliope , The Sisters: Medea , The Sisters: Ceres : How's your heart?
The Sisters: Athena : It must be ticking, 'Cause I feel alive and kicking...
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The Sisters: Athena : Oh, I wish everything could be the same as it was before.