The Station Agent A great dialogue
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Joe Oramas: Hey, Olivia, you got a garlic press?
Olivia Harris: No.
Joe Oramas: How can you not have a garlic press?
Olivia Harris: [both she and Fin are smiling, looking at him] Still no!
Joe Oramas: Alright, you keep talking! I'm gonna go cook without the garlic press!
[turns back to kitchen]
Olivia Harris: [to Fin] I'm not used to having people in my house... especially loud people.
Finbar McBride: It's a nice house.
Olivia Harris: Yeah. David bought it as a get-away place... so I moved down here and got away.
Finbar McBride: Where did you used to live?
Olivia Harris: Princeton.
[glancing at Fin]
Olivia Harris: I know... I didn't get very far. But I just couldn't stay there another minute. Everyone looking at me... the poor woman whose son died.
[a bit of silence falls between them]
Olivia Harris: How about you? What made you pick Newfoundland?
Finbar McBride: [smiling mystically] I wanted to live near Joe!
[Laughter spreads out gradually from them]
Joe Oramas: [leaning over the rail, shouting] Guys!
[Fin and Olivia burst into laughter]
Joe Oramas: Would you come up here and talk? Seriously, this sucks!
[the two keep laughing crazily]
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Joe Oramas: Hey listen, if you guys do something later, can I join you?
Finbar McBride: We're not gonna do something.
Joe Oramas: No, I know, but if you do, can I join you?
Finbar McBride: We're not gonna do something later.
Joe Oramas: Okay, but, if you do?
Finbar McBride: Okay.
Joe Oramas: Cool.
[Fin tries to close the door, but Joe stops it]
Joe Oramas: You the man.
[Fin again tries to close the door, but Joe again stops it]
Joe Oramas: You the man.
[Fin finally closes the door]