The Facts of Life (TV Series)
Read No Evil (1982)
Kim Fields: Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey
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Quotes
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Blair Warner : If you can't get a book in the library you can always go into town and buy one.
Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey : Or wait for the movie to come out.
Edna Garrett : No, that's not the point.
Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey : It's just that with all the stuff we HAVE to read, what's a few less books?
Natalie Green : Nice attitude, Tootie!
Edna Garrett : What did I do?
Natalie Green : This is America! Books are ideas and ideas have a right to circulate! Think of the First Amendment: Freedom of speech, freedom of thought.
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Edna Garrett : Are you sure about this?
Natalie Green : [hands her a list] If you're thinking about checking any of these books out of the library, forget about it.
Edna Garrett : The Fixer, Catch-22, and Slaughterhouse-Five?
Blair Warner : Slaughterhouse-Five, I wrote my term paper on that last year. It was brilliant.
Geri Tyler : That was a good book!
Blair Warner : I was talking about my paper.
Joanne 'Jo' Polniaczek : Well nobody's going to be writing about it this year.
Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey : How come?
Natalie Green : Because it's offensive!
Geri Tyler : Sounds like book-banning to me.
Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey : Isn't that illegal?
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Geri Tyler : Sounds like book-banning to me.
Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey : Isn't that illegal?
Blair Warner : Or at least a Ms.-demeanor.
[laughs]
Blair Warner : Get it? Ms.?
Edna Garrett : Well, I know it happens in a lot of other places, but I never thought it would happen here.
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Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey : Poor Father Flarity.
Blair Warner : Can you imagine how difficult life will be for a married priest?
Geri Tyler : At least he'll be able to hear his own confession.
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Natalie Green : Tootie, your parents are lawyers, we're just kids, what can a bunch of kids do?
Blair Warner : Plenty, didn't you ever read Lord of the Flies?
Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey : But the kids in that book killed each other.
Blair Warner : ...Kids will be kids.
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Edna Garrett : I'm angry too, mostly at myself.
Natalie Green : What did you do?
Edna Garrett : I didn't do enough. Oh I encouraged you to write that editorial, I talked about responsibility, commitment, but when push came to shove, I didn't shove back.
Natalie Green : You just thought things would work themselves out.
Edna Garrett : Well... things DON'T just work out, people have to do that, THIS people.
Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey : What're you going to do?
Edna Garrett : What I should've done in the first place. The monthly Board meeting is next week: Mr. Parker will be there, the parents will be there, and I'll be there.
Natalie Green : Mrs. Garrett, let's not be hasty.
Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey : It's going to be just you against all of them.
Edna Garrett : Well, I can be pretty tough when I'm fighting for something I believe in. Besides, what's the worst that can happen?
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Joanne 'Jo' Polniaczek : Hey where'd you get the newsletter?
Edna Garrett : Mrs. Schuster gave it to me. Oh girls it's so good to know there are more important things in your life than just 'oh Richard, Richard, Richard'.
Natalie Green : How did you know it was us?
Edna Garrett : Your style is unmistakable, Natalie.
Natalie Green : Yeah. Buffy Klein, eat your heart out.
Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey : We had to do something.
Joanne 'Jo' Polniaczek : Yeah, we figured the parents had to know what was going on up here.
Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey : So, we printed up a list of the banned books and Nat's editorial.
Natalie Green : Signed your ex-editor.
Joanne 'Jo' Polniaczek : And mailed copies to all the Eastland parents.
Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey : Wait till Mr. Parker gets the Xerox bills.
Natalie Green : And we put each of the letters in an envelope marked: Notice of Expulsion, so they'd be sure and be opened.