The Mary Tyler Moore Show (TV Series)

Not a Christmas Story (1974)

Betty White: Sue Ann Nivens

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Quotes 

• Sue Ann Nivens : [Sue Ann walks in to the newsroom, dressed in a Christmas-themed outfit; red top, red skirt, accessorised with a sprig of mistletoe as a pin, and more mistletoe on the skirt]  HI people

  Mary Richards , Murray Slaughter : [Half-heartedly]  Hi.

  Sue Ann Nivens : [Sue Ann walks towards Mary and Murray]  Isn't it beautiful out there?

  [Mary mumbles in agreement, as she and Murray get back to work, ignoring Sue Ann] 

  Sue Ann Nivens : I mean - snow always inspires such awe in me.

  [Sue Ann starts talking in a 'philosophical' tone] 

  Sue Ann Nivens : Just consider one single, solitary snow-flake, alone.

  [Sue Ann's standing by Mary's desk] 

  Sue Ann Nivens : So delicate, so fragile, so ethereal

  [Mary looks up at Sue Ann with a smile on her face] 

  Sue Ann Nivens : And yet

  [Sue Ann looks wistfully into space] 

  Sue Ann Nivens : - let a billion of them, come together, through the majestic force of nature, they can screw-up a whole city.

• Mary Richards : Sue Ann, why are you wearing a Santa Claus apron?

  Sue Ann Nivens : Oh, I just finished taping a special, on Christmas dinner in many lands. I call it; 'yuletide yummies for world-wide tummies.'