Vera Alentova: Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova
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Quotes
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Antonina Buyanova : Are there a lot of people under you?
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : Nearly three thousand.
Antonina Buyanova : Organizing all that must be very hard work.
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : It's hard getting the first three workers organized, then it's easy.
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Lyudmila Gurina : Where are you going after that?
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : To the Tretiakov Gallery.
Lyudmila Gurina : After all I taught you about how to get a man, and you go there. The only kind of men you're going to find there are tourists.
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : I go to see the paintings, not the men.
Lyudmila Gurina : Well, I'm going to visit the Lenin Library's biology department today. Imagine the clientele it's got. The kind of men there. Doctors, academicians, philosophers.
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : Are you going to spend your morning watching them read?
Lyudmila Gurina : No, I'll hang around the smoking section.
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Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : You got to have a television.
Nikolay : Absolutely. When the furniture's paid up, we're going to buy a TV set.
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : Tonia, you'd better start with the television set. Because the television is the future of mankind.
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Lyudmila Gurina : This chemistry of yours is so boring. Nothing but formulas.
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : You don't understand. Chemistry's the future of mankind.
Lyudmila Gurina : You should be thinking more about your present.
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Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : Rudy said that in the West, they celebrate special events in restaurants.
Nikolay's mother, Anna Nikitichna : They have all gone crazy over there. What kind of food can you get in a restaurant?
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Rodion 'Rudolph' Rachkov : Someday television will change our lives. We'll never go to the movies, and theatre and literature will die. We'll only be interested in television.
Poet : Don't you think you're getting carried away? Theatre, I agree, isn't going to last long, but really, movies, books...
Rodion 'Rudolph' Rachkov : Just wait twenty years and you'll see.
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : Well, in twenty years everything will be completely changed.
Anton Kruglov : It isn't all that much, twenty years.
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : In twenty years I'll be old.
Anton Kruglov : Believe me, at forty you'll think that your life just begins.
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Club director Olga Pavlovna : You can see what's going on. You at the municipality do nothing but talk when you should be helping us.
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : How can we help?
Club director Olga Pavlovna : We're short of funds, we're short of men!
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : You know as well as I do, that in Moscow, there're five single women for every forty-year-old bachelor.
Club director Olga Pavlovna : But we can't abandon those who need us!
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Antonina Buyanova : I'm always holding you up to the children as an example. You've achieved everything you wanted to.
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : Only don't tell them that once you've gotten everything you wanted, you feel like howling.
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Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : I just love your dill pickles. I can't stop eating them.
Nikolay's mother, Anna Nikitichna : That's Misha who makes them.
Lyudmila Gurina : I never knew that you liked dill pickles.
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : I do now.
Lyudmila Gurina : Are you trying to tell us something? Tell me how it happened.
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : I don't know what you mean.
Lyudmila Gurina : I mean are you pregnant?
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : Yes.
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Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : This is great...
Lyudmila Gurina : What's so great? I take one look at all this and it depresses me. I'd kill myself rather than live here. Everything's decided in advance. You save up to buy a TV set, after that it's a washing machine, then a refrigerator. You've got a twenty-year plan like the government.
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : What's so bad about it?
Lyudmila Gurina : What's good living like that? Don't you understand that we live in Moscow? And Moscow's one big lottery, you can hit the jackpot. Moscow is full of diplomats, artists, actors and poets. Practically they're all men. And we're women.
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : What do they need us for? They have their own women.
Lyudmila Gurina : But we're no worse than the others.
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : Where can we find those artists?
Lyudmila Gurina : That's the point. We have to find them. Leave it to me.
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Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : What if they ask me a question and I give a dumb answer?
Lyudmila Gurina : Do it, but like you mean it. That's called point of view. Take me, I'm pretty vulgar, right?
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : You said it, I didn't.
Lyudmila Gurina : Well, guys call it eccentric.
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Georgiy 'Gosha' : How come you never did get married?
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : I was waiting for you.
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Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : With an observant mind like yours, you ought to work as a weather man.
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Georgiy 'Gosha' : I can tell that you're not married.
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : Because you don't see a wedding ring on my finger?
Georgiy 'Gosha' : Even if you were wearing three wedding rings on each hand, you still have that unmarried look about you.
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : You mean single women have a special look about them?
Georgiy 'Gosha' : Their look is kind of searching. The same look police usually have, an executive has it, and a single woman has it too.
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Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : You go to the theatre or museum and what do you see? Only women. The men are watching television or drinking with their friends. Once they reach forty, they vegetate. They don't even polish their shoes, it's disgusting! I hate men who wear dirty shoes. It's crude.
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Aleksandra - Katerina's Daughter : Where did you find him?
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : In the train.
Aleksandra - Katerina's Daughter : I didn't know you were cruising for men in trains. I'm a little surprised.
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : Not half as surprised as I am, though.
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Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : Believe me, everything will work out for the best. Life begins at 40. It may sound trite, but it's true. Goodbye, and please don't call me up anymore.
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Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : Using your fists is no way to settle problems.
Aleksandra - Katerina's Daughter : And if they don't understand words?
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : Then you didn't explain properly.
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Nikolay : Does he have any particular marks I can look for? A scar, for instance?
Aleksandra - Katerina's Daughter : Not that I know of.
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : They took out his appendix.
Nikolay : That's not what I meant.
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Georgiy 'Gosha' : What's wrong?
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : It's been such a long time!
Georgiy 'Gosha' : Eight days.
Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova : No. I looked for you a long time!
