Rachel Roberts: Brenda
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Quotes
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Arthur Seaton : What's the matter with you tonight?
Brenda : I'll tell you what's the matter with me Arthur, I'm pregnant, good and proper this time - and it's your fault.
Arthur Seaton : Oh aye, it's bound to be my fault isn't it.
Brenda : Well of course it is, you never take care, you just don't bother, always said this would happen one day.
Arthur Seaton : What a wonderful Friday night.
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Brenda : I believe you, thousands wouldn't.
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Brenda : Of all the liars, you're the biggest I've ever known.
Arthur Seaton : I always was a liar, a good 'un and all.
Brenda : Liars don't prosper.
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Brenda : Hey Arthur, what a time we had last night.
Arthur Seaton : It seems years... aye you're lovely Brenda.
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Arthur Seaton : Pour us some more tea duck, it's thirsty work falling down stairs.
Brenda : Two ain't it.
Arthur Seaton : You're good to me Brenda, love, and don't think I don't appreciate it.
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Brenda : Yes, yes it's yours right enough. Haven't done aught like that with Jack for a couple of months or more - and I don't want to have it I can tell you that now!
Arthur Seaton : Have you tried aught, took aught I mean.
Brenda : Yes, some pills, they didn't work. 30 bob they cost me too, gone right down the drain.
Arthur Seaton : God almighty.
Brenda : He won't help you.
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Brenda : What do you think having a kid means? You're doped and sick for 9 months, your clothes don't fit, nobody will look at you. One day you're yelling out and you've got a kid. That's not so bad but you've got to look after it for the rest of its life. You want to try it sometime.
Arthur Seaton : Well if that's how you feel.
Brenda : How do you expect me to feel?
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Brenda : Having a good time?
Arthur Seaton : Not bad, I'm with some pals from work, had to come out or I'd go crackers, I've been worrying about you all week.
Brenda : Well you can stop worrying.
Arthur Seaton : Is it all right then, did you see that doctor?
Arthur Seaton : Oh yeah, I went, I didn't stay.
Arthur Seaton : What?
Brenda : I've decided to have it and face whatever comes of it.
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Aunt Ada : It ain't right is it, I think men get away with murder.
Brenda : They do, don't they.
Arthur Seaton : I don't know that much.
Aunt Ada : Don't be such a big 'ead - and get cracking so as I can talk to her. What's your name duck?
Brenda : Brenda.
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Brenda : Been 'ere long?
Arthur Seaton : 10 minutes, I was just looking at the lovely view.
Brenda : Better come down to earth then, adn't you?
Arthur Seaton : How did you go on at Aunt Ada's, it go off all right?
Brenda : No it didn't, was just one of them old wive's tricks, she made me sit in a hot bath for 3 hours, had to drink a pint of gin. I'll never go through that again, it was terrible, I thought I was gonna die. And it didn't work.
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Brenda : Somebody told me the other day they'd seen you coming out of the pictures with a young girl.
Arthur Seaton : It's a bloody lie then.
Brenda : Do you think I'm daft Arthur? I can tell you don't go as much on me as you used to .
Arthur Seaton : That isn't true Brenda, you know I like you a lot.
Brenda : I know you do, you can see it a mile off.
Arthur Seaton : Not my fault if you don't believe me, is it?
Brenda : You know the trouble with you, you don't know the difference between right and wrong, and I don't think you ever will.
Arthur Seaton : Maybe I won't, but I don't want anybody to teach me either.
Brenda : You'll learn one day.
Arthur Seaton : We'll see, but it's now that matters isn't it, we've still got to clear this mess up.
