A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
Lily Tomlin: Rhonda Johnson
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Quotes
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Lola Johnson : This isn't really going to be your last show, is it?
Garrison Keillor : Every show is your last show. That's my philosophy.
Rhonda Johnson : Thank you, Plato. Kierkegaard.
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Rhonda Johnson : Hey, that was a terrific eulogy you gave old man Soderbergh at his memorial service.
Garrison Keillor : Thank you.
Guy Noir : Too bad the old coot couldn't have been there to hear it.
Yolanda Johnson : Yeah... and to have missed it by just a few days.
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Rhonda Johnson : Oh, it's big. It's movin' like monkeys.
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Rhonda Johnson : Hey, Rich, that's that Honolulu mama, how she could dance in her pink pajamas when she took off her Oahu Oahu Oahu.
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Yolanda Johnson : What are you writin'?
Lola Johnson : A poem.
Yolanda Johnson : Oh, a poem. What's it about?
Lola Johnson : Suicide..
Rhonda Johnson : Oh, my God.
Yolanda Johnson : Oh. Okay. Well, you know what my philosophy is.
Lola Johnson : Yes, I do, so don't tell me.
Yolanda Johnson : I think that you gotta be grateful for everything that happens to you because that's what got you here, you know? And if you hadn't gone through all the things that you went through, why, you know, you wouldn't have wound up where you are now. So, I don't know. Disappointment doesn't get you anywhere.
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Rhonda Johnson : And the next week, we're back doin' the county fair circuit, changin' our petticoats in the ladies' toilet and the boys tryin' to peek in. That was the only good part about it. Then, you have to go outdoors and sing in the open air with a cloud of mosquitoes around your head.
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Rhonda Johnson , Yolanda Johnson : [singing] All the world, Is so sad and dreary, Everywhere I roam...
Yolanda Johnson : Oh, oh, oh
Rhonda Johnson , Yolanda Johnson : Oh, Mama, How I missed the prairie...
Yolanda Johnson : E-e-e-e!
Rhonda Johnson : Ha ha.
Yolanda Johnson : Ha ha.
Rhonda Johnson , Yolanda Johnson : And my Minnesota - home...
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Garrison Keillor : That's our show. Remember to keep your feet on the ground, your hopes up high, pray for rain, keep the humor dry. And eat those Powdermilk Biscuits. Thank you, everybody.
Garrison Keillor , Rhonda Johnson , Yolanda Johnson , Lola Johnson , Dusty , Lefty , Jearlyn Steele : [singing] Come and sit by my side if you love me, Do not hasten to bid me adieu, But remember the Red River Valley, And the one who has loved you so true...
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Guy Noir : Look who just blew in from the old prairie. I thought you left town ahead of the sheriff?
Dusty : Well, the woman decided not to press charges.
Rhonda Johnson : Oh, yeah? What was the crime? Snorin'?
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Rhonda Johnson : There's all sorts of towns we haven't played. I mean, you've got Gooseberry Falls and Lake Winnebigoshish. Up in Lake Winnebigoshish a lot of people are waitin' to see us.