Silk Stockings Movie Quotes
Bibinski, Commisar
[reading a telegram] Former commissar on extended leave of absence. Envoy extraordinary arrives Friday, seven o'clock, with full power. Your authority cancelled herewith. Markovitch.
Ivanov
Extended leave of ab-abscene?
Brankov, Commisar
That means he's dead.
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Vera
Darling, I have looked it up. Comrade Yoschenko is a woman.
Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art
That's your opinion.
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Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art
I want to look somebody up. Does this office have a copy of Who's Still Who?
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Brankov, Commisar
Be casual. Don't frighten him. Smile.
Bibinski, Commisar
I haven't smiled in 30 years.
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Ninotchka Yoschenko
What do you want?
Hotel Porter
May I have your bags, madame.
Ninotchka Yoschenko
Why?
Brankov, Commisar
He's a porter. He wants to carry them.
Ninotchka Yoschenko
Why? Why should you carry other people's bags?
Hotel Porter
Well, it's my business, madame.
Ninotchka Yoschenko
That's no business. That's social injustice!
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Ninotchka Yoschenko
[looking at a display of silk stockings] How can such a civilization survive? Where women are permitted to wear things like these?
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Ninotchka Yoschenko
You are an American?
Steve Canfield
Yes, ma'am.
Ninotchka Yoschenko
Tell me, in America, are you one of the oppressors or one of the oppressed?
Steve Canfield
Oh, one of the oppressors, definitely.
Ninotchka Yoschenko
Aren't you ashamed?
Steve Canfield
Come, now. As one oppressor to the other, you know its the best spot to be in.
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Peggy Dainton
Writing, Directing, Cast. Those things don't mean a thing today. Today there are many other things that are much more important.
[singing]
Peggy Dainton
Today to get the public to attend the picture show, It's not enough to advertise a famous star they know. If you want to get the crowds to come around, You've gotta have glorious Technicolor, Breathtaking Cinemascope and, Stereophonic sound...
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Ninotchka Yoschenko
[Steve kisses Ninotchka] Why do you do that?
Steve Canfield
Because you're absurd and irresistible.
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Peggy Dainton
He's so long hair!
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Ninotchka Yoschenko
I don't look too foolish?
Steve Canfield
Foolish? Why, you're only the most beautiful girl in Paris!
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Steve Canfield
You know what prestige means.
Peggy Dainton
Sure - pictures that don't make money.
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Steve Canfield
Ninotchka, don't you like me at all?
Ninotchka Yoschenko
The arrangement of your features is not entirely repulsive to me.
Steve Canfield
Oh, thank you. Thank you. Don't you think in time, you might go a little further than that?
Ninotchka Yoschenko
I have not seen the rest of you.
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Peggy Dainton
There's absolutely no truth to the rumors. We're just good friends.
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Ninotchka Yoschenko
It seems to me that seduction can only take place when one is willing.
Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art
Yeeesss. I can see that you would think that. Have you ever been to Paris?
Ninotchka Yoschenko
No! I have never been outside the Soviet Union.
Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art
Welllll, heh, heh, I have spent many years in Paris. I got very close to the French people. In fact, they deported me three times.
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Steve Canfield
So you may have to persuade him
Peggy Dainton
How can I persuade him if you can't?
Steve Canfield
Because...
[looking at her figure]
Steve Canfield
We're built differently.
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Ninotchka Yoschenko
In Russia when somebody wants someone they say, "You, come here."
Steve Canfield
Oh, you mad romantic Russians!
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Steve Canfield
How much taxes will Russia get on $50,000.
Brankov, Commisar
$50,000.
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Ninotchka Yoschenko
Your attitude is typical of the male in capitalistic society. You will soon be extinct.
Steve Canfield
How long have I got left?
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Steve Canfield
Is this what it's like in Russia? You take a girl home and you find three Party members waiting?
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Ninotchka Yoschenko
I want to ask you a serious question. Are you flirting with me?
Steve Canfield
Of course. No question about it.
Ninotchka Yoschenko
Suppress it.
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Ninotchka Yoschenko
Where is the little comrade's room?
Steve Canfield
Oh, just at the end of the hall.
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Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art
Well, the Comrade Minister said, but, he didn't tell me - I'm not so sure if for this job a woman, well, physically a woman is not equipped...
Ninotchka Yoschenko
When the Minister sent me here, he did not say it was for a discussion of biology.
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Steve Canfield
I didn't do anything to the commissars. Paris did! It did it to them. It did it to me. It'll do it to you.
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Ninotchka Yoschenko
What is your theory?
Steve Canfield
My theory is there is no theory.
Ninotchka Yoschenko
But, you are attracted to me and, obviously, there must be scientific reasons!
Steve Canfield
Oh, there are reasons. But they have nothing to do with electromagnets.
[singing]
Steve Canfield
I love the looks of you, the lure of you, I'd love to make a tour of you, The arms, the eyes, the mouth of you, The east, west, north, and the south of you, I'd love to gain complete control of you...
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Steve Canfield
You just don't react chemically or otherwise, do ya? Don't you ever let yourself go?
Ninotchka Yoschenko
Go where?
Steve Canfield
Oh, I don't know. Just go, go, go!
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Ninotchka Yoschenko
Look, I know perfectly well the pleasures of music and dancing. But pleasure itself is an indulgence. Only by denying selfish interests can one properly serve the State.
Steve Canfield
You. Come here.
[kisses Ninotchka]
Ninotchka Yoschenko
That was restful. Again.
[long kiss]
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Ninotchka Yoschenko
Your tie, what is it made of?
Steve Canfield
Why? Silk.
Ninotchka Yoschenko
Silk should be used for parachutes.
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Peggy Dainton
I read the script. I don't dig it.
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Steve Canfield
I wonder if we could use Boroff's music?
Peggy Dainton
No! He's too square!
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Ninotchka Yoschenko
Come. Let's go where we can be alone.
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Ninotchka Yoschenko
Why do we always keep the windows closed? Isn't it amazing. At home there is still snow and ice, and here, look at the birds! I always felt a little hurt when our swallows deserted us in winter for capitalistic countries. Now I know why. We have the high idea; but, they have the climate.
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Peter Ilyitch Boroff
But, my music is not for singing.
Peggy Dainton
Oh, but Mr. Boroff, baby, didn't you ever hear about, eh, Chicoughski and, eh, Boradean?
Peter Ilyitch Boroff
Tchaikovsky and Borodin are different. As composers, they have what is in Russia today a great advantage.
Peggy Dainton
Oh, what's that?
Peter Ilyitch Boroff
They are dead.
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Peter Ilyitch Boroff
I can't do it, Miss Dainton. Please, ask me anything else.
Peggy Dainton
Well, Mr. Boroff, baby, you see, that's all I want.
[reveals her plunging neckline]
Peggy Dainton
I've got everything else and if you could do this little ol' thing for me, we could see a lot more of each other. You know, dinners and things - like that.
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Steve Canfield
Ninotchka, Ninotchka.
Ninotchka Yoschenko
You are repeating yourself.
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Ninotchka Yoschenko
Is this what is known as the courtship?
Steve Canfield
Yeah. The build up. The pitch.
Ninotchka Yoschenko
Then I shall get out my little black book and make notes.
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Ninotchka Yoschenko
Facts are facts!
[singing]
Ninotchka Yoschenko
When the electromagnetic of the he-male, Meets the electromagnetic of the female, If right away she should say, "This is the male!" It's a chemical reaction, that's all. And though your Fascists may answer with hisses, The same applies when your misters and misses, Hey-diddle-diddle with middle-class kisses, It's a chemical reaction, that's all...
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Peggy Dainton
[singing] You cannot expect a burlesque queen, To cherish further hope, If her bra is made of buckram, And her G-string is made of rope, But she knows 'cause she has traveled miles, She can always lay 'em in the aisles, If she's wearing silk and satin, She can flatten any Latin, If she's wearing silk and satin, satin and silk...
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Ivanov
But, how can she accuse us of something she knows nothing about?
Bibinski, Commisar
Maybe, Canfield told her. Maybe, she is now just waiting to see if we tell her!
Brankov, Commisar
Maybe! Maybe! Don't be so Russian!
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Ninotchka Yoschenko
Babinski, I have made a discovery. Champagne is more fun to drink than goat's milk.
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Ninotchka Yoschenko
[singing] Without love, what is a woman? A pleasure unemployed. Without love, what is a woman? A zero in the void...
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Ninotchka Yoschenko
I feel so much happiness, it makes me miserable.
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Ninotchka Yoschenko
I feel so gay. I am forgetting I am Russian.
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Peggy Dainton
How does it look?
Madame Fabour
Perfect. But, perhaps we could alter the under garments so that the line will be more smooth!
Peggy Dainton
Good! Good. Its what's under the dress that counts.
[to Boroff]
Peggy Dainton
You know -
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Peggy Dainton
Since my trips have been extensive everywhere, I've become a much wiser gal, For I've noticed that expensive underwear, Can improve a gal's morale. It is strange how lovely lingerie, Can affect a gal's false modesty, If she's wearing silk and satin, Satin and silk. Though she knows that boys are evil imps, Yet she yearns to give those boys a glimpse, If she's wearing silk and satin, Satin and silk...
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Steve Canfield
You're going to marry me.
Ninotchka Yoschenko
Marry you?
Steve Canfield
Well, don't look so shocked.
Ninotchka Yoschenko
This is the first proposition I ever had.
Steve Canfield
Proposal.
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Steve Canfield
I never change the past, only the future.
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Peggy Dainton
[singing] Jo-o-o-o-osephine, Commonly called Jo, Was a throbbin' robin, poor but chic, Born in ultry-sultry Martinique, Where she rose to reach the highest peak, And why so? 'Cause she had, Agitating eyes, Titillating thighs, Lubricating lips, Undulating hips, A figure simply swell, Plus other good points as well. Man, she was real cool and low...
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Steve Canfield
Darling, please don't call me Mr. Canfield.
Ninotchka Yoschenko
Mr. Canfield, please don't call me darling.
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Steve Canfield
I thought you were all through with this twisted political thinking. Why, only a few moments ago...
Ninotchka Yoschenko
I know. You were kissing me. But, does every woman who is kissed by you change her politics?
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Steve Canfield
I thought I saw a carefully trained robot turn into a woman. But, obviously, I was wrong. You can love the masses, but, to love one man scares the daylights out of you! Doesn't it?
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Ninotchka Yoschenko
Ninotchka Yoschenko, Brankov, Commisar, Bibinski, Commisar, Ivanov, Blue Russians: [singing] We got the red blues, We got the red blues, We got the red blues, We got the red blues, We got the red blues, We got the red blues, We got the red, red, Red, that's what we said...
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Bibinski, Commisar
Ninotchka, you are the only woman who can come out of Russia looking as though she's never been there.
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Ninotchka Yoschenko
Comrades, you have done it again.
Ivanov
Ninotchka, we're no longer comrades. We are friends now.
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Steve Canfield
Wait for me in the Mirror Room. Order two brandies. And stop worrying.
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Steve Canfield
Comrades, you're too intelligent not to see it! Now, here we have the leading Soviet composer, Boroff, lending his art to a Peggy Dayton picture, which will circle the globe! In Cinemascope! Just think, the Iron Curtain dissolved by music. Why, its absolutely sensational. What a gesture of good will on the part of the Russians. And - what propaganda!
Bibinski, Commisar
Oh, propaganda.
Brankov, Commisar
Propaganda!
Ivanov
Da!
Steve Canfield
Of course, you three will have to stay here and supervise and help. Why you'll become national heroes.
Brankov, Commisar
Comrade Bibinski, he has a very strong point!
Bibinski, Commisar
Propaganda!
Ivanov
Da Da-da-da-da!
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Brankov, Commisar
Brankov, Commisar, Bibinski, Commisar, Ivanov: [singing] Too bad! We can't go back to Moscow, No wonder we frown, Too bad we've got to consent, To stay in this decadent town...
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Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art
I have made it. Finally I am commissar.
Vera
Now you can make me, prima ballerina.
Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art
Oh, patience, little one.
Vera
But you promised me! As soon as you would become commissar, you would make me, prima ballerina. Throw out this horrible Kranivoska.
Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art
Patience. Kranivoska has power.
Vera
She has nothing. She is fat and ugly and she cannot dance.
Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art
I know. But, she is my wife.
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Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art
But - you are a woman.
Ninotchka Yoschenko
The commissar has good powers of observation.
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Bibinski, Commisar
comrade? do you think you might need help?
Ninotchka Yoschenko
no. I will not need help.
Steve Canfield
don't go too far; i might.
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Ninotchka Yoschenko
I am too happy. Nobody can be so happy without being punished. I should be punished.
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Steve Canfield
You look so beautiful today. Champagne agrees with you.
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Steve Canfield
There's something I want to confess.
Ninotchka Yoschenko
You have a wife.
Steve Canfield
No, no. Nothing like that.
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[after hearing the song made from Boroff's music]
Ninotchka Yoschenko
You were at fault, but so was I. It is now my responsibility.
Bibinski, Commisar
No, I consider it my fault.
Ivanov
Brankov and I feel the same way.
Brankov, Commisar
[nodding and pointing at Bibinski] Da, da, it's Bibinski's fault.
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Ninotchka Yoschenko
I resent being preached to about electricity. You forget we invented it.
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Steve Canfield
Don't you ever have any desires to see the pleasures of Paris?
Ninotchka Yoschenko
Pleasures - Paris - how was you said, "the urge to merge with a splurge"?
Steve Canfield
That's right!
[singing]
Steve Canfield
Paris...
Ninotchka Yoschenko
Capitalistic!
Steve Canfield
Loves lovers...
Ninotchka Yoschenko
Characteristic.
Steve Canfield
For lovers...
Ninotchka Yoschenko
Sensualistic!
Steve Canfield
Is heaven above.
Ninotchka Yoschenko
They should be atheistic.
Steve Canfield
Paris...
Ninotchka Yoschenko
Imperialistic!
Steve Canfield
Tells lovers...
Ninotchka Yoschenko
I'm pessimistic.
Steve Canfield
Love is supreme, wake up your dream, and make love!
Ninotchka Yoschenko
That's anti-Communistic!
Steve Canfield
Paris...
Ninotchka Yoschenko
Militaristic!
Steve Canfield
One discovers...
Ninotchka Yoschenko
You're optimistic.
Steve Canfield
The urge to merge with the splurge of the Spring.
Ninotchka Yoschenko
Bourgeoisie propaganda.
Steve Canfield
Paris...
Ninotchka Yoschenko
Unrealistic.
Steve Canfield
Love's lovers, for lovers know that love...
Ninotchka Yoschenko
Is individualistic.
Steve Canfield
Is...
Ninotchka Yoschenko
And not at all collectivistic.
Steve Canfield
Everything.
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Peggy Dainton
[singing] I lately did a picture at the bottom of the sea, I wrestled with an octopus and licked an anchovy...
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Steve Canfield
Be careful. You're behaving like a woman. And I might behave like a man.
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Ninotchka Yoschenko
You go, go, go. But, you don't get anywhere.
Steve Canfield
You're telling me!
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Ninotchka Yoschenko
[observing a woman modeling a silk negligee] Tell me, comrade, when a woman wears things like that, is it really so attractive to a man?
Peter Ilyitch Boroff
In a word: Da!
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Peggy Dainton
[singing] Though a gal may have been born a prude, She can quite reverse her attitude, If she's wearing silk and satin, Satin and silk...
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Steve Canfield
[singing] We were fated to be mated...
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Peter Ilyitch Boroff
What? No more bows? Ach, what am I talking about? Soon I won't have a head to take a bow with.
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Brankov, Commisar
We've got to sacrifice our own feelings for the good of the party.
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Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art
I am the new commissar of art. My name is Markovitch. Any questions?
Choreographer
Comrade commissar...
Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art
I will ask the questions. What are they doing?
Choreographer
Peter Boroff's tone poem, "Ode to a Tractor."
Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art
Peter Boroff? Do you not know that the great Peter Boroff may not come back from Paris, and if he does not, he no longer has any talent?
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Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art
[On telephone] What? But comrade minister, how can I be in trouble already - I just sat down? The Boroff matter? I wasn't the one who sent those three idiots after Boroff, so why is it my fault? Oh, that is true, there is no one else.
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Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art
Let us get down to business. You are familiar with Peter Ilyitch Boroff's music? You are a music lover?
Ninotchka Yoschenko
Music is essential for parades.
Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art
Of course.
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Steve Canfield
[singing] Paris loves lovers, For lovers it's heaven above. Paris tells lovers, "Love is supreme, Wake up your dream, And make love!" Only in Paris one discovers, The urge to merge, With the spurge, Of the spring...
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Ninotchka Yoschenko
Please don't make an issue of my womanhood.
Steve Canfield
I was looking forward to it.
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Steve Canfield
Don't you ever feel so happy that you just want to dance all around the room?
Ninotchka Yoschenko
Happiness is the reward of industry and labor. Dancing is a waste of time.
Steve Canfield
Well, I like wasting time.
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Brankov, Commisar
[returning to their suite with lipstick on his cheek] I just got your call. I was having a manicure.
Bibinski, Commisar
At two o'clock in the morning?
Brankov, Commisar
I cannot sleep with long fingernails.
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Ninotchka Yoschenko
For the first time in my life, I looked at something and thought, "How beautiful!" instead of "How useful."
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Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art
A couple of months ago some idiot let Boroff get to Paris and naturally he wants to stay there.
Ninotchka Yoschenko
What do you mean: naturally?
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Bibinski, Commisar
Not that we're not working on our mission. I am still prevailing upon Canfield to show us the affidavit concerning Boroff's father.
Brankov, Commisar
Bibi, don't prevail too much!
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Steve Canfield
You ought to play Portia.
Ninotchka Yoschenko
I have. In Gorky's "Merchant of Venice."
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Ninotchka Yoschenko
Why can't you understand this is no laughing matter?
Steve Canfield
Comrade, we're in Paris, in the Spring, why can't we make it a laughing matter?
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