Knots Landing (TV Series)
A Family Matter (1981)
Joan Van Ark: Valene Ewing
Quotes
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[first lines]
Valene Ewing : [re newspaper photograph of J.R. Ewing] I can't even look at him.
Karen Fairgate : [to Abby] She's not crazy about him.
Valene Ewing : Well, I've got good cause *not* to be.
Abby Cunningham : What's he in town for?
Karen Fairgate : Some oil convention. Actually, I found him rather exciting.
Abby Cunningham : You met him?
Karen Fairgate : Last year he was trying to get the offshore drilling rights for this area, but we stopped him.
Abby Cunningham : [incredulously] You stopped him?
Karen Fairgate : Yeah. I read the autobiography of Mata Hari and went to his hotel room to see him one afternoon.
Abby Cunningham : [pretend-shocked] My brother's wife went to a hotel room to see a *man*?
Karen Fairgate : I found him enormously attractive... and enormously charming.
[sighs]
Karen Fairgate : As he got close to me and looked into my eyes...
[the others hanging on to every word]
Karen Fairgate : I got out of there enormously fast.
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Valene Ewing : [to J.R] I don't blame whoever it is that shot you. I just wish I'd done it myself.
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J.R. Ewing : [snide tone] Valene, you should eat when you're sitting down at a full table. You never know how long your luck's gonna hold.
Valene Ewing : [fed up with him already] I'm not very hungry.