The Jewel of the Nile (1985)
Avner Eisenberg: Jewel
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Quotes
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[the Jewel is woken up by Joan chipping away at the bars of their cell with a two-by-four plank]
Jewel : What are you doing?
Joan Wilder : In my last novel, 'Angelina and the Savage Secret' Angelina used a nail file to chip away at the bars of her cell to remove them and escape to freedom.
Jewel : How long did this take?
Joan Wilder : Two pages.
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Jewel : We are sworn, Just Joan.
Joan Wilder : Right, but it's just "Joan."
Jewel : Right - Just Joan.
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Jewel : [happily, as they run from assassin's bullets] Are we *jogging*?
Joan Wilder : [panting] We are jogging!
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[Jack, Joan and the Jewel are under fire from Omar's soldiers]
Jack Colton : Okay, now let's go.
Joan Wilder : [refering to the Jewel] Wait a minute, Jack. He's coming with us.
Jack Colton : Don't start with me, Joan! I've come halfway across Africa to rescue you!
Joan Wilder : Rescue me? I was doing fine without you!
Jewel : [to Jack] Please, I am guide. I can help you.
Jack Colton : I don't need a guide! I need a miracle!
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Jack Colton : Why does everything got to be your way?
Joan Wilder : My way? It wasn't my idea to take off and sail around the world with you on your boat for the last six months!
Jewel : I like this. You talk to each other like this often?
Jack Colton : [to the Jewel] Well, let me tell you what I had to put up. Three months ago, we're moored off the Canary Islands, midnight, sound asleep. A boat of three crazed Joan Wilder fans decide that they want the anchor of the Angeline for a souvenir! We were drifting for days!
Joan Wilder : Well, do you remember the incident at Gibraltar, Jack?
Jack Colton : Oh, come on. Not that again.
Joan Wilder : He has to meet me at the governor's mansion for a formal dinner, and you show up with the entire Italian National League Basketball team!
Jack Colton : Hey, they were hungry.
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Jewel : Your fears, they make you foolish. Go to her, Jack.
