Not Another Happy Ending Quotes
Jane Lockhart: You don't have to be miserable to write. You do it because you have to, because it gnaws away at your insides if you try to ignore it. Because if you don't write, you might as well be dead.
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Roddy: Fact is... we're not dog-killers. What's the worst thing we actually achieved? Kidnapping a pot plant. There's our fatal flaw. At heart, we're nice guys.
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Jane Lockhart: [upon meeting Tom]So, Young European Publisher of the Year, Runner Up? That's really impressive. I have a swimming certificate.
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Tom Duval: [about Jane]She may be a miserable pain in the arse, but when she's writing, she's like a guided missile.
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Jane Lockhart: Willie? Do your characters ever... talk to you?
Willie: Sure. All the time. That's why I've got this. [typing loudly]
Willie: Drowns out the bastards.
Willie: Sure. All the time. That's why I've got this. [typing loudly]
Willie: Drowns out the bastards.
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Darsie: [while Jane sits naked at her computer]I will not do nudity unless it is essential to the plot.
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Jane Lockhart: [eulogizing]Why is it that the saddest endings always seem the truest? In the stories I told myself I was always the heroine - always reaching for my happy ending. It didn't turn out that way. I won't get to spend the rest of my life with him. But I was loved. And that's enough.
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Tom Duval: [to Jane]You are, frankly, about the most infuriating person I've ever met. Which considering I work in Scottish publishing, is saying something.
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[last lines] Roddy: [grading papers]This is really pathetic. Who is this? Jimmy Miller. Should I know him? One hundred pages of the bullshit. One hundred pages. [looking through the stack]
Roddy: I'm not even going to read his. Caitlin doesn't turn up most of the time. Hasn't even put his name on the front cover. Who is this meant to be? Well I can tell by his handwriting it's Paul's. If Paul thinks he can just draw pictures and I'll know what he's trying to say, he's got another thing coming. They're all the same, aren't they? Shona Westwood. What does she want? There's nothing in this, is there? Hasn't even bothered to do it.
Roddy: I'm not even going to read his. Caitlin doesn't turn up most of the time. Hasn't even put his name on the front cover. Who is this meant to be? Well I can tell by his handwriting it's Paul's. If Paul thinks he can just draw pictures and I'll know what he's trying to say, he's got another thing coming. They're all the same, aren't they? Shona Westwood. What does she want? There's nothing in this, is there? Hasn't even bothered to do it.
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Darsie: [Jane is at home, typing on her laptop computer and is bare naked. Darsie is reading a magazine]I will not do nudity unless it is essential to the plot.
Jane Lockhart: [the doorbell rings]Oh, you must be joking!
Tom Duval: Jane?
Jane Lockhart: Just go away!
Tom Duval: I've got to talk to you. Please, open the door.
Jane Lockhart: [Telephone rings]Hold on, a minute! [Darsie gives Jane the telephone]
Jane Lockhart: Hello?
Voice on Telephone.: You need to hear about our great deal on home insurance. [Smoke alarm beeps]
Voice on Telephone.: Have you ever thought about what would happen in your house caught fire?
Darsie: Your meringues, Jane.
Jane Lockhart: [Jane rushes over to the cooker]Shit! Shit! Shit!
Tom Duval: Jane? Are you okay?
Jane Lockhart: [Jane takes the lemon meringue pies out of the cooker]Shit! Shit! Jesus!
Jane Lockhart: [Tom gets the spare key and opens the door and enters and stops and stares in amazement at Jane. Her tray of lemon meringue pies conceal her bare breasts. Jane stares back in embarrassment. Tom sighs]STOP LOOKING! [Tom closes the door and Jane races back into the kitchen]
Jane Lockhart: [the doorbell rings]Oh, you must be joking!
Tom Duval: Jane?
Jane Lockhart: Just go away!
Tom Duval: I've got to talk to you. Please, open the door.
Jane Lockhart: [Telephone rings]Hold on, a minute! [Darsie gives Jane the telephone]
Jane Lockhart: Hello?
Voice on Telephone.: You need to hear about our great deal on home insurance. [Smoke alarm beeps]
Voice on Telephone.: Have you ever thought about what would happen in your house caught fire?
Darsie: Your meringues, Jane.
Jane Lockhart: [Jane rushes over to the cooker]Shit! Shit! Shit!
Tom Duval: Jane? Are you okay?
Jane Lockhart: [Jane takes the lemon meringue pies out of the cooker]Shit! Shit! Jesus!
Jane Lockhart: [Tom gets the spare key and opens the door and enters and stops and stares in amazement at Jane. Her tray of lemon meringue pies conceal her bare breasts. Jane stares back in embarrassment. Tom sighs]STOP LOOKING! [Tom closes the door and Jane races back into the kitchen]
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Jane Lockhart: Look, I'm sorry... about Willie. He shouldn't have hit you even though you did deserve it.
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Tom Duval: Jane, please open the door. Jane, I'm not good at this countryside stuff. Alright? [Jane doesn't open the door]
Tom Duval: I think I saw a bear.
Jane Lockhart: [confused][inaudible]
Jane Lockhart: Bear?
Tom Duval: Jane. [long pause]
Tom Duval: I'm sorry. [Jane opens door]
Tom Duval: I think I saw a bear.
Jane Lockhart: [confused][inaudible]
Jane Lockhart: Bear?
Tom Duval: Jane. [long pause]
Tom Duval: I'm sorry. [Jane opens door]
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Tom Duval: Mr. L. Oh, if you think that was bad, wait till you see what she's done with you in the new one.
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Jane Lockhart: I think you just want to sit and write while you stare at my tits.
Willie: They are great tits.
Willie: They are great tits.
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Roddy: All right. Settle down, you lot. Settle down. William Wordsworth. Wordsworth was, of course, the first of the Romantics to use a MacBook Pro.
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Roddy: [Addressing his class]... which is why Shakespeare never left New York again. Okay, um, chapter 21. Uh, read it or... be punished.
Roddy: [Answering his phone]Yo.
Tom Duval: [On the phone]He's only gone and changed the ending.
Roddy: [Over the phone]Wow. All you did was change her title, and she thought you were a complete wanker.
Roddy: [Addressing his class]That's Juan Kerr. He was a 19th century South American revolutionary.
Roddy: [Answering his phone]Yo.
Tom Duval: [On the phone]He's only gone and changed the ending.
Roddy: [Over the phone]Wow. All you did was change her title, and she thought you were a complete wanker.
Roddy: [Addressing his class]That's Juan Kerr. He was a 19th century South American revolutionary.
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Roddy: [to Nicola]Right, you ready? Go on. Just do it. [Calling out to his students]
Roddy: Okay, pay attention, class. Pay attention!
Nicola Ball: [to the students]Jane Lockhart, of course, follows Charlotte BrontÙ as only the second writer in English to design and build her own hovercraft.
Roddy: [Over-enunciating]Hovercraft. H-O-V-E-R-C-R-A-F-T.
Roddy: [to Nicola]See? They believe anything you tell them.
Roddy: Okay, pay attention, class. Pay attention!
Nicola Ball: [to the students]Jane Lockhart, of course, follows Charlotte BrontÙ as only the second writer in English to design and build her own hovercraft.
Roddy: [Over-enunciating]Hovercraft. H-O-V-E-R-C-R-A-F-T.
Roddy: [to Nicola]See? They believe anything you tell them.
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[first lines] Tom Duval: Roddy! School...
Roddy: [walks in partly dressed]Morning.
Roddy: [walks in partly dressed]Morning.
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Tom Duval: Being happy, she is unable to finish her latest miserable novel. [walking together]
Tom Duval: So, in order to help her, the selfless publisher embarks on a course of action - to return her to the fragile mental state in which she wrote her highly profitable debut.
Roddy: You want to make Jane Lockhart's life a misery so she'll finish writing her book? That's seriously messed up. Do they teach you this stuff in France?
Tom Duval: We study a broad curriculum. So, how do we make someone completely totally miserable?
Roddy: Why are you asking me? I've dedicated the last ten years to encouraging young minds, planting hope and aspiration... [suddenly distracted by a student]
Roddy: Benson, put it away! Stand in the corner! Face to the wall! Little shite. [back to Tom]
Roddy: ... Okay, maybe I have some experience in the field...
Tom Duval: So, in order to help her, the selfless publisher embarks on a course of action - to return her to the fragile mental state in which she wrote her highly profitable debut.
Roddy: You want to make Jane Lockhart's life a misery so she'll finish writing her book? That's seriously messed up. Do they teach you this stuff in France?
Tom Duval: We study a broad curriculum. So, how do we make someone completely totally miserable?
Roddy: Why are you asking me? I've dedicated the last ten years to encouraging young minds, planting hope and aspiration... [suddenly distracted by a student]
Roddy: Benson, put it away! Stand in the corner! Face to the wall! Little shite. [back to Tom]
Roddy: ... Okay, maybe I have some experience in the field...
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