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Night Moves (1975) More at IMDbPro »

Joey Ziegler: He'd fuck a woodpile on the chance there was a snake in it.

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Paula: Oh, that's a beauty.
Harry Moseby: Yeah, but he didn't see it. He played something else and he lost. He must have regretted it every day of his life. I know I would have. As a matter of fact I do regret it, and I wasn't even born yet.
Paula: That's no excuse.

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Harry Moseby: Listen Delly, I know it doesn't make much sense when you're sixteen. Don't worry. When you get to be forty, it isn't any better.

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Harry Moseby: You told me fairy tales... About Malone... Billy Danreuther... The President getting shot... Your erect nipples!

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Ellen Moseby: [of a football game] Who's winning?
Harry Moseby: Nobody. One side is just losing slower than the other.

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Harry Moseby: What happened to your face?
Quentin: I won second prize in a fight.

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Paula: [of the uninhibited Delly] Did she offer you the key to the city?
Harry Moseby: Well, no. It was, uh, more like a sightseeing tour.

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Harry Moseby: Harry thinks if you call him Harry again he's gonna make you eat that cat!

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Paula: When we're all as free as Delly there'll be rioting in the streets.

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Harry Moseby: I saw a Rohmer film once. It was kind of like watching paint dry.

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Arlene Iverson: Are you the kind of detective who, once you get on a case nothing can get you off it? Bribes, beatings, the allure of a woman...
Harry Moseby: That was true in the old days. Before we had a union.

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Marv Ellman: There's nothing like having a mother and a daughter. Gives you sort of a kind of perspective.

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Paula: How do you resist Delly?
Harry Moseby: Oh, I just think good, clean thoughts, like Thanksgiving, George Washington's teeth.

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Paula: Where were you when Kennedy got shot?
Harry Moseby: Which Kennedy?
Paula: Any Kennedy.
Harry Moseby: When the president got shot, I was on my way to San Diego. Football game. When Bobby got shot, I was sitting in a car waiting for a guy to come out of a house with his girlfriend. Working on a divorce case. One of those times I wish I was in another business.

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