Thelma Ritter quotes
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“When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together - wham - like a couple of taxis on Broadway, not sit around analyzing each other like two specimens in a bottle.”
-- Thelma RitterSource : "Fictional character: Stella". "Rear Window", 1954.
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“Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.”
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“If there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it.”
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“Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.”
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“We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. Yes sir. How's that for a bit of homespun philosophy?”
-- Thelma RitterSource : "Fictional character: Stella". "Rear Window", 1954.
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“Stella: I got a nose for trouble. I can smell it ten miles away. . . . I can smell trouble right here in this apartment. First you smash your leg. Then you get to lookin' out the window. See things you shouldn't see. Trouble. I can see you in court now, surrounded by a bunch of lawyers in double-breasted suits. You're pleading: 'Judge, it was only a little bit of innocent fun. I love my neighbors like a father.' And the Judge says, 'Well, congratulations, you've just given birth to three years in. . . .'”
-- Thelma RitterSource : "Fictional character: Stella". "Rear Window", 1954.
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“Do you know what I like about your program? Even when I'm running the vacuum, I can understand it.”
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“Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.”
-- Thelma RitterSource : "Fictional character: Stella". "Rear Window", 1954.
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Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.
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