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Talk hard.

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Samantha Mathis is my main woman. If I ever watch "Atlas Shrugged: Part 2" again, it will be because of her. She is almost criminally underrated. (I'd have to watch it again to really recommend it, but you might like "Lebanon, PA".)

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Also, I live in striking distance of Lebanon. And that was a great movie.

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I need to watch it again. I need to watch all of these films again (and read the screenplays if I can find them).

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When I originally watched "Volume," the interplay of Matthis and Slater's character taught me something I hadn't actually learned in real life yet as a teen: that boys, even and perhaps especially ones that are intellectually and ethically preternaturally courageous, are still terrified of girls and showing them their feelings.

This was something I somehow (at that age) didn't internalize as being real. It was a good dose of empathy for me.

Matthis: "YOU can TALK."

Slater: "I can't talk to YOU."

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I needed a Nora at that age. I could use a Nora NOW!

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I'm sorry to hear you haven't got one already. You very much deserve one.

If I were the director, you'd be well into your romantic arc.

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I appreciate that. Unfortunately, dead philosophers directed this culture (I'm about to read about one of them), and they had different plans for the likes of me.

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Just don't make yourself unhappier than you have to be.

Sorry. I've been saying a lot of gay shit like that lately.

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Sad to see what happened to Gene Simmons the last three years.

Although I was a teenager in the eighties, I think my decade is the seventies.

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I can't bear to look or listen much anymore. I would have loved the Seventies.

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