National Velvet (1944)
Elizabeth Taylor: Velvet Brown
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Quotes
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Mr. Hallam : So you're to win the gelding, are you Velvet?
Velvet : Oh, of course I'm to win.
Mr. Hallam : There are ways of arranging it, aren't there? And your father's a clever man...
Velvet : Oh, I didn't bother him, Mr. Hallam. I just arranged it with God.
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Velvet Brown : I want it all quickly 'cause I don't want God to stop and think and wonder if I'm getting more than my share.
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Velvet : He's beautiful, Mr. Ede. What's his name?
Farmer Ede : Name? He's a murderous pirate, not deserving of a name.
Velvet : Oh no, not pirate. He's a gentle one. I'll just call him Pi.
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Mr. Herbert Brown : [Velvet is pretending she's riding The Pi] Who's this Pi? A new one?
Velvet Brown : Oh, Father, you should see him, he's beautiful. He never puts a foot wrong.
Mr. Herbert Brown : Who?
Velvet Brown : Mr. Ede's new horse. I'm in love with him.
Mr. Herbert Brown : You're a fickle woman. I've heard you say that about other horses.
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Mrs. Brown : Win or lose, it's all the same. It's how you take it that counts, and knowing when to let go; knowing when it's over and time to go on to the next thing.
Velvet Brown : The next thing?
Mrs. Brown : Things come suitable to the time, Velvet. Enjoy each thing, then forget it and go on to the next. There's a time for everything. There's a time for having a horse in the Grand National, being in love, having children; yes, even for dying. All in proper order at the proper time.
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Velvet Brown : Who's been in my box?
Donald Brown : Me.
Edwina Brown : [correcting him] "I."
Donald Brown : You, too?
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[Mi is trying to tell Velvet the "tricks" for the Grand National]
Velvet Brown : Don't, Mi! No matter what you say or do everyone else out there will know more than me. It's no use, Mi.
Mi Taylor : Do think a race like this is won by luck?
Velvet Brown : No, by knowing the Pi can win and telling him so!