Don't Look Now (1973)
Donald Sutherland: John Baxter
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Quotes
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John Baxter : What are you reading?
Laura Baxter : I was just trying to find the answer to a question Christin was asking me: if the world's round, why is a frozen lake flat?
John Baxter : Huh. That's a good question.
Laura Baxter : [flipping through a book] Ah-ha. "Lake Ontario curves more than 3 degrees from its eastern most shore to its western most shore." So, frozen water really isn't flat!
John Baxter : Nothing is what it seems.
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Heather : One of the things I love about Venice, is that it's so safe for me to walk.
John Baxter : Steps.
Heather : Thank you... The sound changes, you see, as you come to a canal. And the echoes from the walls are so clear... My sister hates it.
John Baxter : That's too bad.
Heather : She says it's like a city in aspic, wrapped over from a dinner party, where all the guests are dead or gone. It frightens her. Too many shadows.
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John Baxter : My daughter is dead, Laura. She does not come peeping with messages back from the fucking grave! Christine is dead. She is dead! Dead, dead, dead, dead! Dead!
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Laura Baxter : Your Bishop really makes me feel quite uneasy.
John Baxter : He probably makes God feel slightly less than immaculate.
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John Baxter : I'm not going to get involved with two neurotic old women in a session of mumbo-jumbo. No way!
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Laura Baxter : You got toothpaste all over your mouth.
John Baxter : Eat it off!
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John Baxter : [referring to Bishop Barbarrigo] I get the sensation that he doesn't give an ecclesiastical fuck about the church.
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John Baxter : It was - it was like a - it was a kind of prophecy.
Bishop Barbarrigo : I wish I didn't have to believe in prophecy. I do, but I wish I didn't have to.
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Laura Baxter : Maybe I should start taking my pills again.
John Baxter : On the desk, right there. There. Here. Here.
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Heather : Puss. Puss, puss, puss. Puss, puss, puss. I've tried to keep them. They never stay.
John Baxter : Well, they're very wild in Venice.
