42nd Street
Lorraine: You remember Anne Lowell?
Andy: Not Anytime Annie? Say, who could forget ‘er? She only said “No” once, and then she didn’t hear the question!
Ann: You know, it’s a shame your mother didn’t have any children!
Julian: Sawyer, you listen to me, and you listen hard. Two hundred people, two hundred jobs, two hundred thousand dollars, five weeks of grind and blood and sweat depend upon you. It’s the lives of all these people who’ve worked with you. You’ve got to go on, and you’ve got to give and give and give. They’ve got to like you. Got to. Do you understand? You can’t fall down. You can’t because your future’s in it, my future and everything all of us have is staked on you. All right, now I’m through, but you keep your feet on the ground and your head on those shoulders of yours and go out, and Sawyer, you’re going out a youngster but you’ve got to come back a star!
— Dialogue from 42nd Street (1933)
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