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Quotes
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[first lines]
Lou Grant : You free?
Cab Driver : [cab driver wakes up from snoozing] Free as anyone is, today, pal.
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Lou Grant : Excuse me, can I have your name, please?
Tim Butterfield : Why?
Lou Grant : I'm not sure yet, indulge me.
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Charlie Hume : You lost weight, didn't you?
Lou Grant : About 40 pounds. I worked at it, now it's all off.
Charlie Hume : I liked you better fat.
Lou Grant : [a bit disgruntled] Everybody says that.
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Charlie Hume : [Lou is about to meet Mrs. Pynchon for the first time] And don't mention you were working in television. She hates it.
Lou Grant : Then what do I tell her I've been doing the last ten years?
Charlie Hume : Tell her you were in jail.
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Lou Grant : [on phone] Driscoll, Lou Grant. How's it going?
George Driscoll : [on other line] Oh, well, up and down, over and under, in and out, you can't complain.
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Lou Grant : Just check me. Is this an old fashioned notion of mine, that, when we find out things, we put them in our newspaper. Because if we find out things and just keep them to ourselves, we'd have all this empty white space in the morning.
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Lou Grant : [having received a phone call that Driscoll has fallen off the wagon] I guy I know fell down. I think I gave him the push.
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Lou Grant : [after being chewed out by Mrs. Pynchon] I feel like a tin roof in a hail storm.
Mrs. Pynchon : Really? Well, I hadn't even gotten to you yet.
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[Expecting to be fired by Los Angeles Tribune publisher Margaret Pynchon after confronting her about her decision to cut a front page story on police corruption, city editor Lou Grant and Tribune reporters gather in a bar only to find to their surprise that the story is being published in that day's edition]
Lou Grant : Well, well... we work on a newspaper. A real newspaper.
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Lou Grant : [to Tribune publisher Margaret Pynchon] You hired me to do a job. You said you wanted someone with a point of view. With a strong point of view. You didn't say you wanted it to be yours!
