Richard Beymer: Nick Adams
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Quotes
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Nick Adams : Look, what can you tell in four days?
George : I'll tell ya what I can tell. I can tell ya that three times a day I get hungry and every twenty-four hours I get an irresistible urge to go to sleep in a bed. I don't wanna beg and I don't wanna steal. I don't want a cop tellin' me I'm a vagrant and runnin' me outta town. I'm sorry to desert you, but I'm not cut out for this kind of a life.
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Nick Adams : Listen, Dad, you're always coming to me about Mother. Why don't you go to her for me and explain to her that I'm not a boy anymore.
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Nick Adams : [After the roadwork is stopped] That a mile?
Bugs : Sure. We do a 100 yards to a mile.
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Ad Francis, 'The Battler' : Uh, I'm crazy...Ever been crazy, kid?
Nick Adams : No. How's it get ya?
Ad Francis, 'The Battler' : [Confused and disoriented] I don't kn...I don't know. See, ya...ya know...see, when you got it, then...that means ya don't know about it...
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Nick Adams : You've already had twelve drinks. How can you be thirsty?
Billy Campbell : [Clasping the side of Nick's face] It's an emotional thirst, not a physical one. You wouldn't understand.
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Nick Adams : Ma, the difference between you and me grows fifty miles each day.
