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The Selection Committee

“The numbers said yes. Now the logo gets to mean something.”

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The Fifth Trailer

“The fifth trailer didn't ruin anything. It taught you what a great one feels like.”

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The Map to Bolivia

“She's still looking for treasure in Bolivia. Let her go look.”

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Strategic Femininity

“The selection committee knows the difference. Now so do you.”

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One Foot on Each Side

“The bench tells you everything. Before the club ever gets the chance.”

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Frame

“One of them is always standing in a driveway confessing to a woman who already knew. The other one already went back to work.”

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The Bus

“He is the bus. The ones who don't recognize that will wait for the taxi. Let them.”

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The Journalist

“You don't collect everything available. You select what belongs.”

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Wife Fuel

“She's in there while you're on the roof, doing the job nobody sees. That's Wife Fuel.”

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The Sander and the Sledgehammer

“Not because someone told you. Because you ran your hand along it. And it was right.”

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The Daughter Test

“What does a woman look like? Make sure you can live with that answer.”

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The Lighthouse

“Be the lighthouse. Because if you won't raise your daughter, the culture will.”

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The Ring Table

“The ring table isn't given. It's earned.”

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The Wrong Man

“She doesn't get this too.”

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The Key

“Ask the question before you walk through the door. Because Mike didn't.”

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She Wants the Movie

“They're not looking for a man. They're looking for a role.”

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Game

“He deserved better than the Bonnie and Clyde thing. So do you.”

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The King and the Archer

“Watch who believed before the proof arrived. That is the only audit that matters.”

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The Walkie Talkie

“The young officer was a good kid. And nobody told him in time.”

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The Messenger

“The car doesn't matter. The directions are real. Make up your mind.”

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The Same Man

“Nobody warned the good ones.”

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Metropolis

“That man doesn't get destroyed by the second one. He was already ready.”

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The Stampede

“The channel was always right there.”

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The Cinnabon

“The two of them fought about it the way men fight about a situation neither one is actually going to change.”

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Sixteen Calls

“The conversation never needed a reason to keep going.”

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The Detour

“Three things weren't in the refrigerator.”

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The Booth

“They hired him because he was the funniest man in the building.”

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The Blazer

“None of them ever left that room certain they'd won.”

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The Average

“He kept a list nobody else knew about.”

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The Scout

“She told him on the third date, unprompted, the way honest people tell you things before you've earned the right to ask.”

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The Key Still Fit

“Eight years, for one minute he never practiced.”

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The Cost of Being Liked

“A disarmed man is easier to rob.”

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The Treadmill

“She finally noticed she was standing in the exact same place she started.”

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The Road

“We're already having the trip.”

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The Quiet One

“One of them took it all the way.”

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The Test

“He's just proof the door was never guarded by anything at all.”

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The Comment Cousin

“You still don't know what "this" actually is.”

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The Audit

“You wanted a bank teller with a track record.”

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The Tuna Fish

“He figured it out months later.”

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The Soda

“I knew the play because I used to run the play.”

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The Order

“She'd already decided what she actually wanted, and it wasn't on his menu.”

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The Frame

“I did it right. Not perfectly. Right.”

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The Square

“Some things don't turn off, they just stop announcing themselves.”

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The Trench Coat

“He pulled up in a van I'd never seen him drive, wearing a coat I'd never seen him own.”

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The Griddle

“A footlocker, turned into an oven, in a building where owning a lighter could get you written up.”

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No Is a Complete Sentence

“Some people just never believed it was theirs to say.”

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The Fifth One

“People will keep giving you reasons to say yes right up until you give yourself a reason to say no.”

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Under the Car

“Two men, same week, both working to give their sons something to inherit.”

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The Connecting Door

“He waited until he was home to tell his wife, in person, instead of over a phone call from a hotel room.”

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Look for Parking

“Confidence that doesn't ask the room's permission first.”

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The Trapper Keeper

“It doesn't go out of style, because it was never in style to begin with.”

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The Ice

“Everyone tells you who they are. Most of them just do it with their body instead of their mouth.”

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All the Breaks

“You get all the breaks in life.”

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The Accident

“What she wasn't used to was something happening around her that nobody had planned at all.”

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The Toolbelt

“Some men don't understand what they're sitting on until the seat's empty.”

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The Lemonade

“They didn't have to give me anything. They gave me a way out anyway.”

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The Prison Eye

“A roofer can always climb down.”

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The Jump Shot

“He walked away from those months speaking a language that opened doors the money never could on its own.”

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Just Boxes

“The trailer holds what it holds. We charge for what we take.”

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The Pocket

“It was a choice sitting on top of a capability. Yours is sitting on top of nothing.”

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