The Railway Children (1970)
Jenny Agutter: Bobbie Waterbury
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Quotes
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Bobbie Waterbury : It's Perks's birthday, he's 42, he says he got other things to keep than his birthday, not rabbits and secrets but the kids and the bloomin' missus.
Mrs. Waterbury : Wife and children Bobbie.
Bobbie Waterbury : Same thing isn't it?
Phyllis Waterbury : Bloomin' missus is a sort of a germ of endearment isn't it?
Mrs. Waterbury : Term of endearment Phil.
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[as the smoke on the station platform clears, Bobbie sees her father who has just been released from prison. Diffidently, she runs towards him]
Bobbie Waterbury : Daddy! My Daddy!
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Bobbie Waterbury : There's going to be a paperchase tomorrow.
Phyllis Waterbury : Whippee!
Bobbie Waterbury : The boys from the grammar school are doing it.
Phyllis Waterbury : Zippee!
Bobbie Waterbury : Perks says we can go by the ramp.
Phyllis Waterbury : What's a paperchase?
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Phyllis Waterbury : I don't think we're going to enjoy being poor, you know, being cold and all that.
Bobbie Waterbury : Phyllis try to imagine it as an adventure, all sorts of things might happen.
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Phyllis Waterbury : I O N. There; 'Look out at the station'.
Bobbie Waterbury : One of your finest works, Michaelangelo.
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Phyllis Waterbury : Why don't we ask the next train to take our love to Daddy?
Peter Waterbury : Trains don't carry people's love, they'd be above that.
Phyllis Waterbury : Yes, they do if you tame them first. I wonder why Daddy hasn't written to us.
Bobbie Waterbury : Mummy says he's too busy. He'll write soon, she says.
Phyllis Waterbury : Well, why don't we wave anyway? Three waves won't matter. We won't miss them.
[so start waving]
