Nice Girl? (1941)
Ann Gillis: Nancy Dana
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Quotes
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Jane Dana : [Tasting her soup at the dinner table] Oh, it's hot!
Sylvia Dana : [to Nancy, who's blowing on her soup] One does not blow on one's soup.
Nancy Dana : Oh, doesn't one?
Oliver Dana : Well, there are several schools of thought in the art of soup cooling. There are the blowers, the fanners, the diluters with ice water, and the wait-til-it-coolers. Now I belong to the old school -- the toughies. We take our soup straight and if it burns us, we just laugh it off, see?
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Nancy Dana : Hector, I found out what men really are. Apes. All of them. Apes. After today, I will look upon all men with impunity.
Oliver Dana : First I'd look up impunity in the dictionary.
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Nancy Dana : [When the phone rings] May I be excused? I think it's for me. I'm anticipitating
[sic]
Nancy Dana : a call.
Jane Dana : Nancy, anticipating.
Nancy Dana : Thank you, Jane.
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Cora Foster : Listen, little big mouth. Lightning doesn't always strike in the same place, but your father isn't lightning.
Nancy Dana : That was a very coarse remark.
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Nancy Dana : [to Sylvia] One does not read one's book when one's at the dinner table.
Sylvia Dana : Father, speak to Nancy.
Oliver Dana : Hello, Nancy.