Predestination (I) (2014)
Sarah Snook: The Unmarried Mother
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Quotes
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The Unmarried Mother : You're not how I imagined you'd look.
Jane : Do I know you?
The Unmarried Mother : You're beautiful. Someone should have told you that.
Jane : Well, you just did.
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Jane : Are you lost?
The Unmarried Mother : No I'm looking for someone. Thanks, I'll just wait.
Jane : Well, you know what they say about good things happening to those who wait.
The Unmarried Mother : But only the things left behind by those who hustle
Jane : I was thinking the exact same thing. What are the odds?
The Unmarried Mother : What are the odds.
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The Unmarried Mother : I've had a lot of people tell me how sorry they are for what happened to me. I don't want to hear it any more.
The Bartender : Then what do you want?
The Unmarried Mother : What does anyone want?
The Bartender : Love.
The Unmarried Mother : Fuck love.
The Bartender : A purpose.
The Unmarried Mother : A purpose?
The Bartender : You don't have that?
The Unmarried Mother : I'm working on it.
The Bartender : Why can't love be a purpose?
The Unmarried Mother : Hippy bullshit.
The Bartender : It's easier to hate than to love, right?
The Unmarried Mother : Yeah.
The Bartender : It's easier to destroy something. Kill somebody.
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The Unmarried Mother : Let's face it. Nobody's innocent. Everybody just uses everybody else to get what they want.
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The Unmarried Mother : [Referring to her future] This life. Is it lonely?
The Bartender : No family.
The Unmarried Mother : No.
The Bartender : But, you do have a purpose.
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The Unmarried Mother : You know, sometimes I think this world deserves the shit storm that it gets.
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The Interviewer : I see you've had some disciplinary problems in the past.
Jane : I've had nothing but straight As in all my classes since the first grade.
The Interviewer : Yes. Have you ever been with a man?
Jane : Have you?
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The Interviewer : Do you see yourself as a tourist or a participant?
The Unmarried Mother : I've excelled in advanced physics, biology and astronomy. A tourist is someone who travels across the ocean only to be photographed sitting next to their boat. I have no intention of being a tourist.
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The Unmarried Mother : I never understood why my parents abandoned me. What had I done that was so wrong?
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The Interviewer : Just relax, Jane. Some of the ladies before you, got a little nervous, a little lost in thought.
Jane : [scoffs] Perhaps that's because to them a thought is unfamiliar territory.
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The Unmarried Mother : We all trip up along the way. But you and I, perhaps over the same things.
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The Unmarried Mother : I stopped looking in the mirror. I hated what I saw. I have no photos of myself as a young girl. I don't even remember what I looked like. It's just more of a feeling now.
The Bartender : Well, you look better than I do.
The Unmarried Mother : Who cares how a barkeep looks? Or a writer for that matter.
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The Unmarried Mother : You ever hear the expression "a ruined woman"?
The Bartender : Of course.
The Unmarried Mother : Well, I was as ruined as a woman could be. I was no longer a woman and I did not know how to be a man.
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The Unmarried Mother : You know how it is. People want to adopt a little golden-haired moron. And later on, the boys, they want big tits and pouty lips.
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Mr. Robertson : In order to protect our nation's citizens, it's important we keep certain government operations confidential. Wouldn't you agree?
Jane : Yes, sir.
Mr. Robertson : I work for an organization whose primary purpose is *not* space travel. It's... reshaping wrong doing.
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The Unmarried Mother : And when I wasn't expecting it, I met him. There he was.
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The Unmarried Mother : Haven't you ever done something stupid for love?
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The Unmarried Mother : The man who ruined my life is a ghost, and so is my daughter. I guess at some point, you have to let it go.
