(At Patty Hewes's )


Lucia : Are you Ellen?


Ellen : Yeah, I guess.


Lucia : Ms. Hewes had to go to Michael's school. She waits for you.


Ellen : Oh, okay.
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(To Michael's school)


Patty : What, Ellen? Speak. You think I shouldn't have fired Tom?


Ellen : It's not for me to say.


Patty : This moron always keeps me waiting (School headmaster). You might as well sit down.


Ellen : Is everything all right?


Patty : He's threatening to expel my son.


Ellen : Oh. I'm sorry.

Patty : Do yourself a favour, Ellen, don't have kids. I read an interview once with a Nobel prize winner... physicist, genius, married six times. He said: "don't have kids. " Ruins your ambition, keeps you from what you want in life. He said to have wives instead.


You can leave wives. You can't leave your own kids.


Ellen : Thanks, I'll keep that in mind.


Patty : My son came out of me perfectly healthy... Ten fingers, ten toes, everything works. I've managed to keep him alive for 17 years, but I am not a good mother.


Ellen : I'm sure you are.


Patty : Kids are like clients. They want all of you, all the time. I mean... don't get me wrong, I love my son.


Ellen : Well, that's the main thing.


Patty : No. Love's nothing, love's easy. They come out of you, you love them.What you do after that is the hard part.


You know what I like about you? There's always something going on. I could see it at your sister's wedding. And you don't fall for bullshit.


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Taken from the first episode of the thriller drama TV show
" Damages".
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