Famke Janssen
- Highest Rated: Monument Ave. (1998)
- Lowest Rated: The Poison Rose (2019)
- Birthday: Nov 5, 1964
- Birthplace: Amstelveen, The Netherlands
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A former model, Dutch-born actress Famke Janssen had her screen breakthrough as Xenia Onatopp, James Bond's (literally) man-crushing foe in GoldenEye (1995). After earning fame and a certain dose of coy notoriety for her portrayal of the character, who was endowed with the unique ability to squash potential seducers to death between her thighs, Janssen went on to prove that she was more than just the latest variety of Bond babe.Born in Holland on January 1, 1964, Janssen launched her lucrative modeling career at an early age. Moving to New York when she was barely out of her teens, she soon tired of the vacuous nature of modeling and enrolled at Columbia University, where she studied literature and creative writing. Janssen made her screen debut in the 1992 drama Fathers and Sons. Following the success of GoldenEye, the actress began finding steady screen work, appearing in such films as Robert Altman's The Gingerbread Man (1998), in which she played Kenneth Branagh's ex-wife; Woody Allen's Celebrity (1998), which cast her as Branagh's girlfriend; and Robert Rodriguez's The Faculty, in which Janssen's part was furthered by alien brainwashing, instead of Branagh.After closing the century with another excursion into supernatural grotesqueries in the remake of The House on Haunted Hill (1999), Janssen began the 21st century on a somewhat more heroic note, playing one of the titular group of superheroes in Bryan Singer's adaptation of the popular comic book X-Men.
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Highest Rated Movies
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Monument Ave.
90% -
X2: X-Men United
85% -
X-Men
81% -
GoldenEye
78%
Filmography
Movies
Rating |
Title |
Credit |
Box
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Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0% | The Poison Rose | Jayne Hunt | — | 2019 |
| 46% | Asher | Sophie | — | 2018 |
| 20% | Bayou Caviar | Nic | — | 2018 |
| 14% | All I Wish (A Little Something for Your Birthday) | Actor | — | 2018 |
| 17% | Once Upon a Time in Venice | Actor | — | 2017 |
| 14% | The Show | Ilana Katz | — | 2017 |
| 50% | Jack of the Red Hearts | Kay | — | 2015 |
| 13% | Taken 3 | Lenore | — | 2015 |
| 71% | The Wolverine | Jean Grey | $132.6M | 2013 |
| 45% | Down the Shore | Mary | $5.3K | 2013 |
| 14% | Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters | Muriel | $55.1M | 2013 |
| In the Woods (The Being Experience) | Actor | — | 2013 | |
| A Fighting Man | Diane Schuler | — | 2013 | |
| 22% | Taken 2 | Lenore | $139.9M | 2012 |
| 17% | Bringing Up Bobby | Director Screenwriter Producer | $5.5K | 2012 |
| 25% | The Chameleon | Jennifer Johnson | — | 2011 |
| ITW Pathway | Actor | — | 2010 | |
| 58% | Taken | Lenore | $145M | 2009 |
| 100 Feet | Marnie Watson | — | 2008 | |
| 70% | The Wackness | Mrs. Squires | $2.2M | 2008 |
| 60% | Turn the River | Kailey Sullivan | — | 2008 |
| 36% | The Ten | Gretchen Reigert | $0.6M | 2007 |
| 57% | X-Men: The Last Stand | Jean Grey | $234.4M | 2006 |
| 68% | The Treatment | Allegra Marshall | — | 2006 |
| Hide and Seek: Do You Want to Play? The Making of 'Hide and Seek' | Actor | — | 2005 | |
| 13% | Hide and Seek | Katherine | $51.2M | 2005 |
| 32% | Eulogy | Judy | $42.3K | 2004 |
| Special Thanks to Roy London | Actor | — | 2004 | |
| 85% | X2: X-Men United | Jean Grey | $214.9M | 2003 |
| 16% | I Spy | Rachel | $33.2M | 2002 |
| 24% | Don't Say a Word | Aggie | $54.3M | 2001 |
| 71% | Made | Jessica | $3.7M | 2001 |
| R.P.M. | Claudia Haggs | — | 2000 | |
| 9% | Circus | Lili | — | 2000 |
| 48% | Love & Sex | Kate Welles | — | 2000 |
| 81% | X-Men | Jean Grey | $156.2M | 2000 |
| 30% | House on Haunted Hill | Evelyn | — | 1999 |
| 53% | The Faculty | Miss Burke | — | 1998 |
| 41% | Celebrity | Bonnie | — | 1998 |
| 90% | Monument Ave. | Katy | — | 1998 |
| Dead Girl | Actor | — | 1998 | |
| 65% | Rounders | Petra | — | 1998 |
| 29% | Deep Rising | Trillian | — | 1998 |
| 43% | Adventures of Sebastian Cole | Fiona | — | 1998 |
| 58% | The Gingerbread Man | Leeanne | — | 1997 |
| 43% | City of Industry | Rachel | — | 1997 |
| 78% | GoldenEye | Xenia Onatopp | — | 1995 |
| 61% | Lord of Illusions | Dorothea | — | 1995 |
| Relentless 4 | Dr. Jaffee | — | 1994 | |
| Model by Day | Lex | — | 1994 | |
| Fathers & Sons | Kyle | — | 1993 | |
| Taken 2 UNCUT | Actor | — |
TV
Rating |
Title |
Credit |
Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 96% |
When They See Us
2019
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Nancy Ryan |
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| 91% |
The Blacklist
2013
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Harry
2016-2018
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Guest |
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| 60% |
The Blacklist: Redemption
2017
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Scottie Hagrave |
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The Chew
2011-2018
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Guest |
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Today
2017
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Guest |
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| 93% |
How to Get Away With Murder
2014
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Eve Rothlo Eve Eve Rothlow |
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Late Night With Seth Meyers
2014
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Guest |
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SuperMansion
2015-2018
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Voice |
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| 38% |
Hemlock Grove
2013-2015
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Olivia Godfrey |
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The Talk
2010
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Guest |
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The Wendy Williams Show
2008
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Guest |
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CBS This Morning
2012
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Guest |
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| 75% |
Nip/Tuck
2003-2009
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Ava Moore Guest |
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The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
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Guest |
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The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
1992-2014
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Guest |
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| 61% |
Ally McBeal
1997-2002
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Jamie |
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Melrose Place
1992-1999
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Diane |
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The Untouchables
1993-1994
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Call Girl |
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| 89% |
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987-1994
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Kamala |
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QUOTES FROM Famke Janssen CHARACTERS
- Jean Grey/Phoenix
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Kill me!
- Muriel
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Gretel. Famous witch hunter, finally we meet.
- Gretel
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Who are you?
- Muriel
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I see you got my invitation?
- Gretel
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Say your name before my arrows rip out your throat!
- Muriel
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I go by many names, none of which you're worthy of pronouncing.
- Jean Grey
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It's too late.
- Jean Grey
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Logan you can defeat the vampire army if you believe in yourself.
- Logan
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I forgot how to believe in myself when I was hit by that adamantium bullet.
- Jean Grey
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Ok
- Jean Grey
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Ok.
- Muriel
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Gretel, famous witch hunter, finally we meet.
- Gretel
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Who are you?
- Muriel
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I see you got my invitation.
- Gretel
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So you're name before my darts rip out you're throat!
- Muriel
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I go by many names, none of which you are even worthy of pronouncing. . .
- Muriel
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I go by many names, none of which you are even worthy of pronouncing.
- Gretel
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Oh my god. . .
- Gretel
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Oh my god.
- Xenia Onatopp
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(after losing against Bond at the casino) Enjoy it.. while it lasts.
- Xenia Onatopp
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Enjoy it. While it lasts.
- James Bond
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The very words I live by.
- Jean Grey/Phoenix
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Logan, you're making me blush...
- Logan/Wolverine
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You're reading my thoughts?
- Muriel
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You've finally found your way home!
- Muriel
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Once upon a time, in a shitty little town...
- Muriel
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Gretel! Famous witch hunter. Finally we meet.
- Gretel
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Who are you?
- Muriel
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[grabs a paper with the words "Child Lost"] I see you got my invitation.
- Gretel
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Say your name before my arrows rip out your throat!
- Muriel
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I go by many names, none of which you're worthy of pronuncing.
- Lenore
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You're not the only one with the moves around here.
- Bryan Mills
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Apparently so.
- Jean Grey/Phoenix
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It's just like where we first met, but I was where you were, and you were where I am.
- Jean Grey/Phoenix
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Kill me or I'll kill again.
- Jean Grey/Phoenix
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you'll die for them?
- Jean Grey/Phoenix
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You'll die for them?
- Logan/Wolverine
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no, not for them, for you..
- Logan/Wolverine
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No, not for them, for you..
- Jean Grey/Phoenix
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(shocked, started crying) save me..
- Jean Grey/Phoenix
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[shocked, started crying] Save me..
- Logan/Wolverine
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i love you... (stabbed Jean)
- Logan/Wolverine
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I love you... [stabbed Jean]
- Dr. Jean Grey
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I keep feeling something bad is supposed to happen...
- Dr. Jean Grey
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I keep feeling something bad is supposed to happen.
- Dr. Jean Grey
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Girls flirt with the dangerous guy, they don't bring him home; they marry the good guy.
- Dr. Jean Grey
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Girls flirt with the dangerous guy, they don't bring him home, they marry the good guy.
- Dr. Jean Grey
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[Last lines.. voiceover] Mutation. It is the key to our evolution. It is how we have evolved from a single-cell organism into the dominant species on the planet. This process is slow, normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few millennia evolution leaps forward.
- Dr. Jean Grey
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[Last lines voiceover] Mutation. It is the key to our evolution. It is how we have evolved from a single-cell organism into the dominant species on the planet. This process is slow, normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few millennia evolution leaps forward.
- Jean Grey
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Ladies and gentlemen, we are now seeing the beginnings of another stage of human evolution. These mutations manifest at puberty, and are often triggered by periods of heightened emotional stress.
- Jean Grey
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Mutants are not the ones mankind should fear.
- Zeke
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Hello Miss Burke!
- Miss Elizabeth Burke
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Hello sweety pie, what are you looking for?
- Zeke
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Ah, nothing important. So maybe you changed your mind about the chocolate laxatives?
- Miss Elizabeth Burke
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Actually I had my heart set on something cherry flavored, if you know what I mean.
- Zeke
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Sorry I'm all outta those but I have something else for you.
- Miss Elizabeth Burke
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Yes?
- Zeke
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Oh yeah.
- Miss Elizabeth Burke
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Something tasty?
- Zeke
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(softly) - Let me hook you up.
- Zeke
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(softly) Let me hook you up.
- Zeke
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Man, I'm really not in the mood, Miss Burke. I'm clean. Not today. It's too damn hot, and I got zero-fu**ing-tolerance.
- Miss Elizabeth Burke
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Eat me, you a**hole. I'm the one with no tolerance, you pathetic little runt.
- Zeke
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What are you gonna do? Are you gonna call my mother?
- Miss Elizabeth Burke
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And how am I supposed to do that, little Zekey boy? Do you even know where she is? Europe, Sri Lanka, Japan? I wonder what remote location she went to this week...to hide from her great big bastard mistake. I've taken your shit for too fu**ing long, you di**less drug-induced excuse for a human being.
- Zeke
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Woman, what are you on?
- Miss Elizabeth Burke
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"Woman"? Did you just say, "Woman"? I'm sick of you, little boy. And if I see you peddling your wonder dust again, I'm gonna shove my foot so far up your ass...you'll be sucking my toes till graduation.
- Miss Elizabeth Burke
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'Woman?' Did you just say, 'Woman?' I'm sick of you, little boy. And if I see you peddling your wonder dust again, I'm gonna shove my foot so far up your ass you'll be sucking my toes till graduation.
- Zeke
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...She got some bad sh*t.
- Zeke
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She got some bad sh*t.
- Miss Elizabeth Burke
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Zeke, you cannot conduct personal business on school property.
- Zeke
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Well, Miss Burke, we have a problem...because I'm sitting on my car and that's my property.
- Zeke
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Well, Miss Burke, we have a problem because I'm sitting on my car and that's my property.
- Miss Elizabeth Burke
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Well, I've had complaints from several students...that you've sold them mind-altering substances. You want to tell me about it or take it up with Principal Drake?
- Miss Elizabeth Burke
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Well, I've had complaints from several students that you've sold them mind-altering substances. You want to tell me about it or take it up with Principal Drake?
- Zeke
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You're too tense, Miss Burke, but I've got just the thing for you.
- Miss Elizabeth Burke
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You know, Zeke, I'm the authority figure here. It's time you realized that.
- Zeke
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For gentle relief of blockage caused by dietary stress." - Chocolate-flavored laxatives.
- Zeke
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For gentle relief of blockage caused by dietary stress. - Chocolate-flavored laxatives.
- Miss Elizabeth Burke
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You know...if you applied just five percent...of that intellect to your studies -
- Miss Elizabeth Burke
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You know, if you applied just five percent of that intellect to your studies
- Zeke
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Not a chocolate lover?
- Miss Elizabeth Burke
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You could have made up your finals last summer. - You didn't have to repeat your senior year.
- Miss Elizabeth Burke
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You could have made up your finals last summer. You didn't have to repeat your senior year.
- Zeke
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How about these? Condoms; Magnum-sized, and they're cherry-flavored. Come on, Miss Burke. They're on me.
- Miss Elizabeth Burke
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That's so rude.
- Miss Elizabeth Burke
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So...what was Crusoe's...greatest fear? Anyone? Yes, Zeke.
- Miss Elizabeth Burke
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So, what was Crusoe's greatest fear? Anyone? Yes, Zeke.
- Zeke
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Crusoe's afraid that he'd be stuck on that island forever...with nothing but calluses.
- Zeke
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Crusoe's afraid that he'd be stuck on that island forever, with nothing but calluses.
- Miss Elizabeth Burke
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No, that's not correct. Isolation was his greatest fear.
- Zeke
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Yes, but...his external existence in no way compared...to the internal agony of the loneliness he felt.
- Zeke
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Yes, but his external existence in no way compared to the internal agony of the loneliness he felt.
- Miss Elizabeth Burke
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That's very good.
- Zeke
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Like I said...calluses.
- Zeke
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Like I said, calluses.