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Thelma Ritter

"Stella: I got a nose for trouble. I can smell it ten miles away. . . . I can smell trouble right here in this apartment. First you smash your leg. Then you get to lookin' out the window. See things you shouldn't see. Trouble. I can see you in court now, surrounded by a bunch of lawyers in double-breasted suits. You're pleading: 'Judge, it was only a little bit of innocent fun. I love my neighbors like a father.' And the Judge says, 'Well, congratulations, you've just given birth to three years in. . . .'"

Source : "Fictional character: Stella". "Rear Window", 1954.

Thelma Ritter

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“Women take clothing much more seriously than men. I've never seen a man walk into a party and say "Oh, my God, I'm so embarrassed; get me out of here. There's another man wearing a black tuxedo.”
“Cheerleading was my way in. It was one of the most rigorous audition processes ever. It definitely groomed me for Hollywood.”
“Only yonder magnificent pine-tree... holds her unchanging beauty throughout the year, like her half-brother, the ocean, whose voice she shares; and only marks the flowing of her annual tide of life by the new verdure that yearly submerges all trace of last year's ebb.”
“How is it that you profess love for God but can't accept another human being?”

Source : "New Stage Production Explores Black Church Arsons" by Adelle M. Banks, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 26, 2010.
“Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.”
“An adult woman should not be so possessive of her own birthday that she begrudges her friends the chance to get married on the same day.”
“The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructiveâ€¦ compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.”
“The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle of political legitimacy and to command obedience on pain of imprisonment even of those who never consented to the preposterous arrangement.”

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