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The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie
A favorite line of dialogue; distinct from how it is delivered.
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The Rock
"That's the most awful thing I've ever seen"; "FBI, freeze, sucker"; "I'm too old for this"
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Manhunter
No single winner: the potato-chip dip line; Dennis Farina’s dialogue; Dolarhyde’s lines
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New Jack City
"It's always business. It's never personal"; "Sit your $5 ass down before I make change"
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The Terminator
Kyle’s warning: the Terminator cannot be reasoned or bargained with and will never stop
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Bridesmaids
"I did not know that it was your diary. I thought it was a very sad handwritten book."; "Why can't you just be happy for me and then go home and talk behind my back like a normal person?"; "I cracked a blanket in half"; "I'm glad he's...
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Wall Street
"You're smart enough not to buy into the oldest myth running: love"; "So you say"; "Save the cheap salesman talk"
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Home Alone
"A, I'm not that lucky. Two, we have smoke detectors. And D, we live in the most boring street in the United States of America"
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The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie
Han Solo’s speech rejecting a mystical force controlling his destiny
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