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our family was unbalanced.
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going to put on a play.
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great new dramatist,
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a little mood music.
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happily ever after."
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her mother. Fester...
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play be without you?
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and good for nothing.
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The hero, Claude.
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to you. Here.
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only hearing it read once.
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feeling, what emotion.
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depth of feeling.
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scene with him.
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balcony, go on.
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finally found himself.
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under all that hair.
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play is a success,
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a big director.
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find a big director?
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will make the decisions.
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You are only my agent.
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my more distinguished pictures.
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great play and a great cast.
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of an entirely new career.
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home-talent plays.
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his fee is too high, Mr. Addams.
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I'll give him 50 thousand.
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from the third act,
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after him with a sword.
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it sound convincing.
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puts feeling into it.
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do your play, after thinking it all over.
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around, old man.
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137. Of course, this living room
is hardly a Broadway theatre.
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138. By george, you're right, this
play should be on Broadway.
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serve as an out-of-town tryout.
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another director.
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will you, Lurch?
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148. Gone.
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Quick, open it up.
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this crummy play anyhow.
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on and run like a thief.
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you've all been waiting for.
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star, Cousin Itt.
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adore temperamental artists.
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through the opening scene now.
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please stand over there?
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what you've done.
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career, your public...
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pear-shaped tones,
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just a nice pear shape.
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remember reading somewhere
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supposed to eat them.
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my good dibbies!
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again, nice and easy.
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mainly full of pitch!"
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284. "The witch's ditch is
mainly full of pitch."
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blessed moon I swear,
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all these dead treetops,
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croak in ecstasy,
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my head your father chops."
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yonder window breaks..."
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he'll be absolutely impossible.
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go fix my makeup.
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magnificent on you.
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you directing. Sure hit.
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contract and get him over here.
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Hello, Addams here.
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the door and disappeared.
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to dismiss the old boy.
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my artistic capabilities.
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than a servant around here.
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have to ask you to...
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darling, welcome home.
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about my birthday play.
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for Mr. Derrick tomorrow.
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better thing..."
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some hair remover
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really Itt under there.
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fault, it's just...
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think of it, it is your fault.
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sweet voice back again.
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mainly on the plain."
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different phrase.
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mainly on the flats."
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don't you think?
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concentrate, Cousin Itt.
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simply won't come out that way.
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me, I must rehearse.
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knew him, Horatio."
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that is the question."
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Itt won't do the play.
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to Broadway tonight.
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see the little pest go.
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actor you want me to meet.
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that is the question.
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in the mind to suffer
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of outrageous fortune,
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troubles, and by opposing end them?"
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to Hollywood to do a picture.
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from the Mars Canals.
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in the title role.
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with no makeup.
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traded dynamite caps.
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do we not bleed?
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442. You should hear the big scene.
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443. This character, Charlie, can't
pay back the $20 he owes.
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444. This other fellow, Pete,
demands a pound of flesh.
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445. $20 for a pound of flesh?
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446. Sounds fine to me.
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447. It does?
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448. Yeah, you should
go in the butcher shop
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449. and see the prices
they're getting.
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450. That's true.
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451. Well, enough work for tonight.
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452. To bed, querida, to bed.
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453. Yes. To bed, darling.
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