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Cover of Annie Hall

It’s Thursday’s Top Ten and then some.  A couple of days ago I watched Annie Hall (again!), one of,  if not the best of Woody Allen‘s movies.   Pure genius!  I was so taken with the dialogue that I started to jot some of what I thought were spectacular lines and thought these quotes would make a great Thursday’s Top Ten blog.

1. “I‘m comparatively normal for a guy raised in Brooklyn.” – Alvie
   
2. ” I love being reduced to a cultural stereotype.” – Annie
3. ” You speak shellfish” – Alvie
4. ” …If anyone had ever told me I would be taking out a girl who used the phrase, ‘La di dah’ …”. – Alvie
5. ” The country makes me nervous, you get crickets and the screens with dead moths behind them…” – Alvie
6. ” The rest of the country thinks of  New Yorkers as a bunch of left -wing Communist Jewish homosexuals;  personally I think of us that way sometimes.” – Alvie
   
7. ” …my mother locked herself in the bathroom and overdosed on Mah Jongg tiles”. -Alvie
8. ” Don’t knock masturbation, it’s having sex with someone I love”. – Alvie
   
9. “…my feet haven’t touched pavement since I landed in L.A.” – Alivie
   
10. “…penis envy? I’m one of the few men who suffer from it”. – Alivie
    
11. “…the only cultural advantage is right turn on red”. – Alvie
    
12. ” I forgot my montra” – ?
13. “… it’s like living in munchkin land”. – Alvie

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