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25th Hour

The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie

"I've been in three prisons and three countries, and you know what I learned? Prison is a bad place to be."

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  • "Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends" is offered first, but objected to as just a saying people use that the film did not invent; the reply is that it was just nice to hear.
  • The line from the movie is the prison observation, which the host mocks with the sarcastic reaction "Oh, you think so, doctor?"