Best drama movie quotes of 2016

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La La Land picture

Sebastian: I'm letting life hit me until it gets tired. Then I'll hit back. It's a classic rope-a-dope.

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Dr. Franks: You had an injury to your head. You got hurt, right? When you were young? Do you remember how it happened?
Jericho Stewart: Yeah. My mother told my daddy that he wasn't my daddy. So he called her a whore and throw... me out the car window.

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Edward Sheffield: When you love someone you have to be careful with it, you might never get it again.

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Buster Moon: When you've reached rock bottom, there's only one way to go, and that's up.

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Volmer: Do you know what the cure for the human condition is? Disease. Because that's the only way one could hope for a cure.

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The Priest: There comes a time in man's search for meaning when he realises that there are no answers. And when you come to the horrible and unavoidable realization, you accept it or you kill yourself. Or you simply stop searching.

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Melanie: We're alive?
Dr. Caroline Caldwell: Yes. You're alive.
Melanie: Then why should it be us who die for you?

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Ferreira: There's a saying in here: "Mountains and rivers can be moved but men's nature cannot be moved."

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Kaiser Wilhelm II: I'm ashamed to say that before and after my first marriage I, myself, fathered at least two illegitimate children: one with an Austrian countess, another with a French prostitute who was known in court circles as Madame L'Amour. Both of them, incidentally, blackmailed me for huge sums of money, the Countess and the prostitute. I expected better of the prostitute.

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Ambrose Hilliard: You and me given opportunities only because young men are gone. But to turn or back on those opportunities, wouldn't that be giving death dominion over life?

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Gabby: I heard every word you said. You were breathing for me baby. Your heart beat for mine.

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Everett Lewis: Oh! When I was their age did the work o' ten men. Clean this yard, chop wood.
Mr. Hill: Yeah.
Everett Lewis: Built that fence.
Mr. Hill: Yes, but - You were here, around people. Everett? If someone applied for that job? Hire them.

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Howard: Crazy is building your ark after the flood has already come.

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Dorothea: Wondering if you're happy is a great shortcut to just being depressed.

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Stephen: You're replacing me.
Mary: No one could ever replace you. I promise. Please, just put the ax down, and we can talk about this.

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Jesus: Hate, anger, fear. Those are lies they use to turn you against each other. When you set aside the hate they force you to carry, that's when you know love is our true nature.

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Jennifer: When I was a child, I was obsessed with changing myself.

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Katherine: I'd rather stop you breathing than have you doubt how I feel.

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Robert Mazur: Roberto, I am glad you are here. But there is a part of me that wishes you hadn't taken that risk.
Roberto Alcaino: Without family or friends what kinda world it is be. There will be no reason to be alive. Hmm? It's a good day.

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