Dean Spanley (2008)
Peter O'Toole: Fisk Senior
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Quotes
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Fisk Senior : Very handy, Thursday. Keeps Wednesday and Friday from colliding.
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Fisk Junior : Now, there is a lecture by one Swami Nala Prash. About the transmigration of souls.
Fisk Senior : Poppycock! Think if we had souls they wouldn't get in touch? 'course they would! Think your mother wouldn't be on to me about that garden? 'course she would!
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Fisk Senior : Do not presume to judge me, young Fisk.
Fisk Junior : I should first have to understand you, father. And that, I confess, I do not.
Fisk Senior : Perhaps you would have to become a father first.
Fisk Junior : Your example disinclines me to that particular comprehension I'm afraid.
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Wrather : Been a great pleasure, sir.
Fisk Senior : Easily pleased, is all I can say.
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Fisk Junior : If I were to tell you, you wouldn't believe me.
Fisk Senior : Then by all means don't tell me, I don't believe in enough things already.
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Fisk Senior : Let's go to my club. Have a stiff one.
Fisk Junior : I thought you didn't go there anymore.
Fisk Senior : That was in the past. This is the present, young Fisk. There's no time like the present as that Swami calls it. What was it? The eternal now.
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Fisk Senior : What about him pinching my line?
Dean Spanley : What line Sir?
Fisk Senior : The anteroom of eternity.
Dean Spanley : I rather thought that common usage.
Fisk Senior : Not at all. Out of my own head that came. Rather like having your pocket picked.
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Fisk Senior : Women with the vote is like a cow with a gun. Contrary to nature.
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Fisk Senior : When something has gone to the trouble of happening, it is best to consider it is inevitable, in my opinion. Learned that lesson the hard way, I did.