Quotes
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Art Donovan : Seems a couple out in Paqoima trying to hold the construction of a freeway there.
Lou Grant : What's the problem?
Art Donovan : Well, it seems that the off ramp will go right through their living room.
Lou Grant : Oh... be convenient getting to work.
Art Donovan : This guy works at home.
Lou Grant : See if you can tear Martinson away from writing his novel long enough to cover it.
[cut to an older newsman sitting at his desk with resting his face on both hands]
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Lou Grant : [on phone at the Tribune] Eh, you're in pretty rough territory, be careful.
Billie Newman : [on carphone] The Animal's here with me.
Lou Grant : Yeah, don't let anybody hurt him.
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Billie Newman : It's not vanity...
Lou Grant : It never is.
Billie Newman : ...but I'd like to know how my story can be so unimportant as to end up on page 26 opposite the shipping news.
Art Donovan : Shipping news is important. It's not as important as it was in the old U-Boat days, sure, but it's still the first thing I turn to in the morning.
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Art Donovan : Did you read Rossi's feature on Mrs. Walker?
Lou Grant : [glum] Yeah, I read it.
Art Donovan : I don't think he's ever been better.
Lou Grant : Me neither. I couldn't change a word.
Art Donovan : Why is it that guys that write as well as Rossi always have personalities like Rossi?
Lou Grant : Maybe... if the two of us went over it together... we could find something wrong with it.