Quotes
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Billie Newman : You know Lou Grant?
Flo Meredith : Kind of. We almost got married once.
Billie Newman : Almost?
Flo Meredith : Well, he asked me and I said no, and then after a while I thought it over, but I guess he thought it over too and... he never asked me again.
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Lou Grant : [on phone] Billie, I want that interview. The stuff we're getting from you we could pull off the wires.
Billie Newman : [in telephone booth] Oh, come on, Lou, that's not fair. I hardly have time to eat. Even the other writers have trouble.
Lou Grant : I don't care if you eat, I don't care about other writers. Now, that, that's part of your problem: you're awed by those guys. You're so impressed you can't write. Now, you got anything else for me?
Billie Newman : [annoyed] Yeah. Flo Meredith says hi.
Lou Grant : [brightens up] Flo? Oh, now listen, tell her -
[Billie hangs up]
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Billie Newman : I'm sorry, I thought you'd be up.
Benson : Newman, is it?
Billie Newman : Yeah.
Benson : Look, ehm, everyone knows this is the first chance I've had to sleep in a week. I'm surprised nobody told you.
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Benson : [Animal has been using Billie's hotel room shower when Benson enters] Oh, eh, pardon me, eh... I-I'll come back.
Billie Newman : It's okay, he comes with the room. Eh, we're just sharing temporarilly. Eh Griff, this is eh, one of our photographers, Animal.
Dennis "Animal" Price : [extends his hand] Dennis Price. She just calls me 'Animal'.
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Billie Newman : [on phone in hotel room] We've been getting cold sandwiches for lunch.
Lou Grant : [on other line, expressing mock sympathy] Aaah...
Billie Newman : Nooooo, you don't understand. Up 'till now, everthing has been first cabin. We've had hot lunches and nice hotels, and now we're lucky if we get a stale cheese sandwich for lunch and the cockroaches in the rooms are so big we give them names.