Cimarron Strip (TV Series)
The Battleground (1967)
Jill Townsend: Dulcey
Quotes
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Dulcey Coopersmith : What do you think?
Marshal Jim Crown : Go home.
Dulcey Coopersmith : This is my home.
Marshal Jim Crown : With the finest lasses you'd want to see?
Dulcey Coopersmith : I know what it was. I know what it is. There isn't a thing in the place that doesn't need fixing and the kitchen's horrible with dirt and grease and dust, but I know what it can be.
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Marshal Jim Crown : How old are you?
Dulcey Coopersmith : Twenty.
Marshal Jim Crown : Twenty? Nobody's twenty anymore.
Dulcey Coopersmith : You're right, I lied - I'm eighteen. How old are you?
Marshal Jim Crown : Thirty-five.
Dulcey Coopersmith : Well... that isn't so bad.
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Marshal Jim Crown : Do you want to feed people and clean up behind them?
Dulcey Coopersmith : But it would be mine! I've never owned something that was mine before. I have a future.
Marshal Jim Crown : A future?
Dulcey Coopersmith : Well, there'd be tables inside with linen and candles in bottles like these glowing ever so softly...
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[Jim smashes a bottle and thrusts the jagged edge at Dulcey]
Marshal Jim Crown : Look at it! That is the future here, Dulcey! It's vicious and it's raw. You're tryin' to feed sugar to a horse that's crazy and wild with fear and full of blind, stupid hate. They won't even want to see ya or know what you have to offer. Then one day, you're standing next to a fire or a shootin' or some liquored lout is tearin' up the town, and all at once they'll be standin' over you sayin' "I never saw she was there" but it will be done. No, you're going to be hurt around here, Dulcey, and no one's goin' to mean to do it.
Dulcey Coopersmith : That can't happen.
Marshal Jim Crown : Can't it?
Dulcey Coopersmith : You're here.