The West Wing (TV Series)
Ways and Means (2001)
Bradley Whitford: Josh Lyman
Quotes
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Sam Seaborn : So, listen, there's a fire in Yellowstone Park.
Josh Lyman : Well, put it out.
Sam Seaborn : Technically, I'm not a professional firefighter, though there was a time I wanted to be.
Josh Lyman : When?
Sam Seaborn : When I was four.
Josh Lyman : When I was four, I wanted to be a ballerina.
Sam Seaborn : Yeah?
Josh Lyman : I don't like to talk about it.
Sam Seaborn : Ballerina?
Josh Lyman : I'd kinda like that not to get around.
Sam Seaborn : Yeah. No chance of that.
President Josiah Bartlet : [Later, that same day] Josh?
Josh Lyman : Yes, sir?
President Josiah Bartlet : A ballerina?
Josh Lyman : Yeah, I didn't... I didn't know what it was at the time. I liked the word.
President Josiah Bartlet : We'll go with that for now.
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Josh Lyman : Can I ask you something?
Donna Moss : I had a plan.
Josh Lyman : When you say, "in one of these boxes..."?
Donna Moss : I had a plan. Each box is numbered. There's a piece of paper with a number and a corresponding description of the contents of each box.
Josh Lyman : Well, where's the piece of paper?
[pause]
Josh Lyman : It's in one of these boxes.
Donna Moss : I had a plan. I grew up on a farm.
Josh Lyman : You grew up in a condo.
Donna Moss : I grew up near a farm. And I was cute, and I was peppy, and I always did well on my nineteenth-century English literature midterm until you came along and sucked me into your life of crime.
Josh Lyman : Hey, I'm not the...
Donna Moss : White-collar crime boy. You know what they do to a girl like me on that cell block? I've seen those movies.
Josh Lyman : Yeah, me, too.
Donna Moss : I'll bet you have.
Josh Lyman : Look...
Donna Moss : Sell my farm girl ass for a carton of Luckys.
Josh Lyman : Hey, seriously, you need to sleep for a while.
Donna Moss : I can't yet. 'Cause in one of these boxes are Fed Ex receipts and mail-room records for any gifts or packages sent to senior staff, and in one of these boxes is a piece of paper which says which box it's in!
Josh Lyman : I'll be in the office.
Donna Moss : Your office is down a corridor, about two hundred feet from here. Try not to commit any felonies on the way.
Josh Lyman : I'll do my best.
Donna Moss : Yeah.
[Josh leaves the room]
Sam Seaborn : Josh?
Josh Lyman : Donna's like, two, three days away from unspooling. It's pretty fun to watch...