Quotes
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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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Joe Rossi : I've got to hand it to me: this is good. I'm a good writer.
Billie Newman : And modest, too.
Joe Rossi : Modesty is the opiate of the mediocre.
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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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Billie Newman : [having just angrily hung up her phone] That was your friend, Higgins at the Hall of Records.
Joe Rossi : [giggles] He's a character, ain't he?
Billie Newman : [mock laughter] Ah, haha, I can think of a better word to describe him.
Joe Rossi : You know, Higgins can be very helpful sometimes.
Billie Newman : Did he ever ask you to sleep with him in return for his help?
Joe Rossi : He asked me to go camping with him, once...
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Barbara Shaw : I just wanted to thank you.
Billie Newman : Oh, don't.
Barbara Shaw : I'm gonna save your stories about Marla and Lisa. And when she's old enough, I'll show them to her. She should know about her mother. About what happened. And, that someone cared about it.