Quotes
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Billie Newman : [in phone booth on the scene] Everything is just sort of on hold here, Lou. Some of these parents are beside themselves.
Lou Grant : [on other line at the City Desk] I can imagine...
[notices something on TV covering the same story]
Lou Grant : Eh... wait a minute, Billie. Why is the, eh... why is the Swat team leaving?
Billie Newman : [springs into action] You tell me. I didn't know they were. You seem to have a better seat than I have.
[hangs up]
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Billie Newman : [upset with Lou] So when something I write gets changed around to satisfy someones notion obout what makes good copy, it makes me...
[searches for a word]
Billie Newman : ... it makes me furious.
Lou Grant : Livid, right? Outraged.
Billie Newman : Damn it, now you're even rewriting my yelling at you!