“Return of the Secaucus 7” quotes
(1979)
Title Return of the Secaucus 7
Original title Return of the Secaucus Seven
Year 1979
Director John Sayles
Genre Drama
Original title Return of the Secaucus Seven
Year 1979
Director John Sayles
Genre Drama
All actors – Bruce MacDonald, Maggie Renzi, Adam LeFevre, Maggie Cousineau, Gordon Clapp, Jean Passanante, Karen Trott, Mark Arnott, David Strathairn, John Sayles, Marisa Smith, Amy Schewel
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“My problem is the repetitiveness. Y'know... wine, women, and whiteline fever, over and over. Whereas, progressive is existential. You got these chromatic melodies, right? To use for, like, a springboard into all kinds of experiments. Even the backbeat is full of nuances. You know that there's a central rhythmic idea going on, but you're never...” (continue)(continue reading)
“- Frances Carlson: You know, I can't imagine you guys teaching. I mean, is it the same old stuff we got?
- Mike Donnelly: Well, I start the year with the Boston Police Strike.
- Irene Rosenblue: They let you teach that?
- Mike Donnelly: They let you teach just about anything, so long as you keep the students from knifing each other.”“- Chip Hollister: We didn't shoot the deer. We don't even have a gun! They think we shot the deer.
- J.T.: How do you know it was shot, Mr. Hollister? No one said anything about a shooting.
- Mike Donnelly: It might've been knifed.
- J.T.: Or bludgeoned to death.
- Mike Donnelly: Or strangled with a silk stocking.
- J.T.: Or slowly poisoned.”“- Lee: With country, it's like you're being told a story that you've heard before. But with progressive, it's like you're going into unknown territory. Exactly.
- Amy: Are you in music, too?
- Jeff Andrews: Drugs.”“- J.T.: Coach says that you and Miss Sipriano are, uh, getting it on. Is that right, Mr. Donnelly?
- Mike Donnelly: Coach has a filthy, reactionary mind, J. T. Don't listen to him.”“- J.T.: Coach says that you got socialistic tendencies. Is that right, Mr. Donnelly?
- Mike Donnelly: Coach is a running dog imperialist, J. T. Don't listen to him.”“- J.T.: We're in for, uh... What do you call deer murder?
- Jeff Andrews: Bambicide.
- J.T.: Right. Bambicide, right. And conspiracy to deprive a furry woodland creature of its civil rights.”“- Katie Sipriano: You guys are much too well-behaved. High school isn't what it used to be.
- Mike Donnelly: Yeah, it's mostly discipline. No matter how jazzed up and relevant I try to make the history, I'm still dealing with a roomfull of teenage libido.”“What's a little reunion without a little drama?”
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