The Station Agent (2003)
Patricia Clarkson: Olivia Harris
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Quotes
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Joe Oramas : Hey, Olivia, you got a garlic press?
Olivia Harris : No.
Joe Oramas : How can you not have a garlic press?
Olivia Harris : [both she and Fin are smiling, looking at him] Still no!
Joe Oramas : Alright, you keep talking! I'm gonna go cook without the garlic press!
[turns back to kitchen]
Olivia Harris : [to Fin] I'm not used to having people in my house... especially loud people.
Finbar McBride : It's a nice house.
Olivia Harris : Yeah. David bought it as a get-away place... so I moved down here and got away.
Finbar McBride : Where did you used to live?
Olivia Harris : Princeton.
[glancing at Fin]
Olivia Harris : I know... I didn't get very far. But I just couldn't stay there another minute. Everyone looking at me... the poor woman whose son died.
[a bit of silence falls between them]
Olivia Harris : How about you? What made you pick Newfoundland?
Finbar McBride : [smiling mystically] I wanted to live near Joe!
[Laughter spreads out gradually from them]
Joe Oramas : [leaning over the rail, shouting] Guys!
[Fin and Olivia burst into laughter]
Joe Oramas : Would you come up here and talk? Seriously, this sucks!
[the two keep laughing crazily]
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[last lines]
Joe Oramas : It's the librarian fantasy, man. Glasses off, hair down, books flying.
Finbar McBride : She doesn't wear glasses.
Olivia Harris : Well, buy her some, it's worth it.
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Finbar McBride : Well, there are people called train chasers. They follow a train and they film it.
Olivia Harris : Are you a train chaser?
Finbar McBride : No.
Olivia Harris : How come?
Finbar McBride : I don't know how to drive a car. And I don't own a camera.
Olivia Harris : That'd do it.
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Olivia Harris : [Breaking the ice] When I was 19, I actually slept with a guy because he rolled his own cigarettes.
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Joe Oramas : Trains are really cool.
Olivia Harris : They are.
Finbar McBride : [smoking marijuana] So are horses.
Joe Oramas : What?
Finbar McBride : I was just thinking that.
Joe Oramas : Give me the joint, man.
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Olivia Harris : Would you do me a favor and not look at me right now?