Daily Dialogue — May 11, 2010
Anita Miller: “First it was butter then it was sugar and white flour, bacon, eggs, balogna, rock ‘n roll, motorcycles. Then! It was celebrating Christmas on a day in September when you knew it wouldn’t be commercialized! What else are you gonna ban?”
Elaine Miller: “Honey, you want to rebel against knowledge, I’m trying to give you the cliffnotes on how to live life in this world.”
Anita Miller: “We’re like nobody else I know!”
Elaine Miller: “I am a college professor. Why can’t I teach my own kids? Use me!”
Anita Miller: “Darryl says that you use knowledge to keep me down. He says that I’m a ‘Yes’ person and you are trying to raise us in a ‘No’ environment.’
Elaine Miller: “Well, clearly ‘No’ is a word Darryl doesn’t hear much.”
Anita Miller: “I can’t live here! I hate you! Even William hates you!”
Young William: “I don’t hate her.”
Anita Miller: “You do hate her! You don’t even know the truth.”
Elaine Miller: “Honey, don’t be a dramaqueen.”
Anita Miller: “Feck you!”
Elaine Miller: “Hey!”
Anita Miller: “This is a house of lies!”
Elaine Miller: “Well there it is, your sister used the ‘F’ word.”
Young William: “I think she said ‘feck.’”
Elaine Miller: “What’s the difference?”
Young William: “The letter ‘u.’”
— Elaine Miller (Frances McDormand), Anita Miller (Zooey Daschanel), Young William (Michael Angarano), Almost Famous (2000), written and directed by Cameron Crowe
Daily Dialogue theme for the week is notable mother-child (young or adult) conversations. Almost Famous suggested by Dylan Lienhard.