Irina Muravyova: Lyudmila Sviridova
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Quotes
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Lyudmila Gurina : Don't cry.
Lyudmila Gurina : You know what Moscow thinks of tears.
Lyudmila Gurina : We shouldn't be sitting around, we should do something.
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Lyudmila Gurina : Where are you going after that?
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : To the Tretiakov Gallery.
Lyudmila Gurina : After all I taught you about how to get a man, and you go there. The only kind of men you're going to find there are tourists.
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : I go to see the paintings, not the men.
Lyudmila Gurina : Well, I'm going to visit the Lenin Library's biology department today. Imagine the clientele it's got. The kind of men there. Doctors, academicians, philosophers.
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : Are you going to spend your morning watching them read?
Lyudmila Gurina : No, I'll hang around the smoking section.
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Lyudmila Gurina : You've led a perfectly honest sort of life, and what d'ya got to show for it, just a couple of hairs on your head.
Nikolay : Baldness is in style nowadays.
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Lyudmila Gurina : This chemistry of yours is so boring. Nothing but formulas.
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : You don't understand. Chemistry's the future of mankind.
Lyudmila Gurina : You should be thinking more about your present.
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Antonina Buyanova : You know, he's so shy.
Lyudmila Gurina : Yeah, you wouldn't call him an intellectual. You could have found a dunce like him at home in your village.
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Antonina Buyanova : He's taking me to watch a concert.
Lyudmila Gurina : To watch a concert! After two years in Moscow you can't talk properly.
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Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : I just love your dill pickles. I can't stop eating them.
Nikolay's mother, Anna Nikitichna : That's Misha who makes them.
Lyudmila Gurina : I never knew that you liked dill pickles.
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : I do now.
Lyudmila Gurina : Are you trying to tell us something? Tell me how it happened.
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : I don't know what you mean.
Lyudmila Gurina : I mean are you pregnant?
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : Yes.
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Lyudmila Gurina : Why is it that generals always have the same kind of wife? I would have made a perfect general's wife!
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Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : This is great...
Lyudmila Gurina : What's so great? I take one look at all this and it depresses me. I'd kill myself rather than live here. Everything's decided in advance. You save up to buy a TV set, after that it's a washing machine, then a refrigerator. You've got a twenty-year plan like the government.
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : What's so bad about it?
Lyudmila Gurina : What's good living like that? Don't you understand that we live in Moscow? And Moscow's one big lottery, you can hit the jackpot. Moscow is full of diplomats, artists, actors and poets. Practically they're all men. And we're women.
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : What do they need us for? They have their own women.
Lyudmila Gurina : But we're no worse than the others.
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : Where can we find those artists?
Lyudmila Gurina : That's the point. We have to find them. Leave it to me.
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Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : What if they ask me a question and I give a dumb answer?
Lyudmila Gurina : Do it, but like you mean it. That's called point of view. Take me, I'm pretty vulgar, right?
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : You said it, I didn't.
Lyudmila Gurina : Well, guys call it eccentric.
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Lyudmila Gurina : I was told how to meet a single man. You go to a cemetery. You're bound to meet an intellectual who's a recent widower. You let him look at you, and the next thing you know... A friend of mine actually married an architect that way.
