My Brilliant Career (1979)
Wendy Hughes: Aunt Helen
Quotes
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Aunt Helen : There's any amount of love and good in the world, you know? It doesn't just come to you. You have to search for it.
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Aunt Helen : Now, plain looks never stopped anyone from being - intelligent or witty or making friends. Being beautiful is - no guarantee of success in anything. But, it does help a little.
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Aunt Helen : Being misunderstood, that's a trial we must all bear. You have a wildness of spirit which is going to get you in trouble all of your life. So, you must learn to control it. You try and cultivate a little more feminine vanity.
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Uncle Julius : Our Sybylla appears to have hidden talents.
Aunt Helen : The only trouble is - you don't know what she'll do next.
Harry Beecham : I seem to recall, she was always like that.
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Aunt Helen : Marriage gives us respectability, dear, as you'll learn.
Sybylla : No. That is just what men want us to believe! Stupid idiots like Frank Hawdon! Well, I won't be caught up in it. Not by him or anyone!
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Aunt Helen : Be careful how you treat him.
Sybylla : What do you mean?
Aunt Helen : Oh, you know what they say,"Heed the spark or you may dread the fire."
Sybylla : For heaven's sake!
Aunt Helen : Sybylla, he is a man of the world! He has quite a reputation with the ladies in - Melbourne.
Sybylla : Yes, I bet he has.