Le fantôme de Sarah Williams (2000)
Jennifer Connelly: Sarah Williams
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Quotes
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Sarah Williams : Ambition is... the ice on the lake of emotion.
[They walk for a moment in silence]
Fielding Pierce : Who said that?
Sarah Williams : I did.
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Sarah Williams : You can't be everything to me.
Fielding Pierce : I want to be.
Sarah Williams : Oh, dear. I love that you said that.
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Sarah Williams : I don't want to watch you turn into a cog in their machine.
Fielding Pierce : That's so fucking condescending. Sometimes cogs can make machines run a little but better.
Sarah Williams : Sometimes yes. Mostly they turn in circles and wear out. Then they get replaced.
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Sarah Williams : We will never be apart. We may be at each other's throats or we may be separated by 5,000 miles, but we'll never be apart.
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Sarah Williams : You have to love me too. Not an image, not an idea. And not in spite of who I am.
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Sarah Williams : You are the incarnation of your family's ambition. I am the incarnation of your family's fear.
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Sarah Williams : Our lives have taken us so far apart now. It seems wrong to think we belong together.
Fielding Pierce : But I think it.
Sarah Williams : I do too. I think I know why.
Fielding Pierce : Why?
Sarah Williams : Because it's what we want. But... so few people get what they want. And the ones they do aren't really the lucky ones anyway.
Fielding Pierce : They're not? Who are?
Sarah Williams : The ones that do what they are meant to.
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Sarah Williams : It is so infuriating loving you sometimes!
Fielding Pierce : Well, the feeling's mutual.
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Fielding Pierce : I risk throwing away everything that I've worked for. This way eventually, I can make some real substantial changes without throwing away my life on some ultimately meaningless gesture.
Sarah Williams : Sometimes, meaningless gestures are all we have.
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Sarah Williams : You, um, still haven't told ,e how you got the idea you wanted to be a senator.
Fielding Pierce : That's not actually what I want. I want to be the President.
[Sarah smiles]
Fielding Pierce : Why are you smiling?
Sarah Williams : Because you mean it.
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Sarah Williams : Sarah Williams: I thought wanting you was going to go away. They told me it was going to go away.