A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004)
Scarlett Johansson: Pursy Will
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Quotes
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Cecil : Your mama thought you were golden so we named you after yellow flowers and corn. This is you here...
[cuts some purslane from garden]
Cecil : ...pretty, golden purslane.
Pursy Will : Purslane's really a weed, you know. A neighbor told me when I was 9 and I ran over his tomato plants. He said all gardeners hate purslane.
Cecil : Yeah, and dandelions. Doesn't stop kids from making wishes on 'em.
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Lawson Pines : You know, I knew your mother pretty well.
Pursy Will : How well?
Lawson Pines : She was hard to understand. But she kept the door to her heart open.
Pursy Will : Well, the way I heard it was more of a revolving door, now, wasn't it?
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Bobby Long : Now just exactly who is Plato and who is Socrates in this equation? Cause fuck, I'll just stay out.
Lawson Pines : You are Socrates, of course. You are the teacher.
Bobby Long : Goddamn right I am.
Pursy Will : I wish you'd all just shut up. Cause if it's gonna be like this, I ain't learning nothing.
Bobby Long : Girl, your English is fucking atrocious!
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Pursy Will : Everyone knows that books are better than life! That's why they're books!
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Lee : Look, I'm sorry. Why don't you just cook me some dinner and I'll go rent us some porno?
Pursy Will : I have to go to a funeral, Lee. Unless I missed it because you forgot to tell me that my mother is dead!
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Bobby Long : Someone should have told those Creole people we got something called winter in Louisiana
Pursy Will : Well, y'all might've improved on their oversight with this cool new invention called HEAT.
Bobby Long : Pursy, where'd you put the vodka?
Pursy Will : You told me to hide it.
Bobby Long : I did. But where did you hide it?
Pursy Will : I'm not supposed to tell you, remember?
Bobby Long : Goddamn, you don't do anything else I tell you to do. Now where is it?
Pursy Will : Lawson! Bobby's trying to get me to tell him where the vodka is again.
[Lawson enters]
Lawson Pines : Pursy, it is Christmas.
Pursy Will : Oh whatever. It's under the back stairs.
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Pursy Will : Why'd ya'll leave that school?
Lawson Pines : It's complicated. So many reasons.
Pursy Will : Tell me one.
Lawson Pines : A lot happened really fast. And New Orleans, all this, seemed romantic at the time.
Pursy Will : Is it? Is it romantic?
Lawson Pines : It has its moments.
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Lawson Pines : Damn girl, you woke up productive. Bobby, come see what Pursy did.
Bobby Long : I see what she didn't do. Leave.
Pursy Will : She ain't gonna leave.
