Quotes
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Queen Diana : I understand you had a productive day.
Pasolinus : I'm still empty-handed.
Queen Diana : Then maybe you're looking in the wrong place. Maybe I can help.
Pasolinus : You're good at offering services, aren't you, Diana Metellus? Your story I know - ambitious beauty from Thrace travels to Rome; quick study, quick tongue. Uses her talents the best way she knows. Finds work in a brothel. Climbs the ladder, such as it is, until she is the queen... of whores. Nice work
Queen Diana : Well, I feel my secret's in good hands.
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Longinus : Do you know who you're dining with?
Queen Diana : Yes - power! Don't you think it suits me?
Longinus : Pasolinus is a Red Boot, Diana - part of the emperor's secret guard.
Queen Diana : So?
Longinus : His assignment is to document the history of the empire - with the proper slant, of course. Control the truth, you control the masses.
Queen Diana : Well, I guess I should be flattered.
Longinus : He's not interested in you and he's certainly not after any stolen military plans.
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Longinus : They haven't made a saint of me... yet.
Queen Diana : Yet?
Longinus : Pasolinus knows who I am now. In exchange for my sotry, he's promised to mark me down as a man of grace... a saint! If you can't change history, at least you can rewrite it.
