Quotes
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Lou Grant : [on phone] Billie, I want that interview. The stuff we're getting from you we could pull off the wires.
Billie Newman : [in telephone booth] Oh, come on, Lou, that's not fair. I hardly have time to eat. Even the other writers have trouble.
Lou Grant : I don't care if you eat, I don't care about other writers. Now, that, that's part of your problem: you're awed by those guys. You're so impressed you can't write. Now, you got anything else for me?
Billie Newman : [annoyed] Yeah. Flo Meredith says hi.
Lou Grant : [brightens up] Flo? Oh, now listen, tell her -
[Billie hangs up]
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Margaret Pynchon : Is that lunch, or a suicide attempt?
Lou Grant : [mouth full] Pastrami, lean. Kinda lean. You wanna have?
[offers her some]
Margaret Pynchon : Oh no, my cardiologist is on vacation.
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Margaret Pynchon : I hear we're being swamped with complaints from groups that are backing Carlisle.
Lou Grant : Nice to see Billie's story has impact.
Margaret Pynchon : A runaway bus has impact, Mr. Grant, but it's rarely favorable.
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Charlie Hume : Where'd she get the tip?
Lou Grant : A source, very reliable.
Rubin Castillo : I thought 'Very Reliable' lived in Washington.
Adam Wilson : Yeah, right down the street from 'High Ranking Official'.
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Lou Grant : It's a good senate race, maybe even better than the Presidential election. I think we ought to jump all over it.
Charlie Hume : Well, we've got Hayward traveling with the campaign, he files every day.
Lou Grant : Hayward thinks 'I Like Ike' is a hot new slogan.
Charlie Hume : He really covers the campaing trail.
Lou Grant : Sure, he's been on it since God was a boy.
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Billie Newman : [on phone in hotel room] We've been getting cold sandwiches for lunch.
Lou Grant : [on other line, expressing mock sympathy] Aaah...
Billie Newman : Nooooo, you don't understand. Up 'till now, everthing has been first cabin. We've had hot lunches and nice hotels, and now we're lucky if we get a stale cheese sandwich for lunch and the cockroaches in the rooms are so big we give them names.