hey, that's brilliant!
LORELAI: Mom, if I may, I’d like to give you some advice.
EMILY: You would?
LORELAI: You need to develop a defense mechanism for dealing with Grandma.
EMILY: What are you talking about?
LORELAI: You just need a system, a new mindset. Take me, for example.
EMILY: What about you?
LORELAI: Well, I know there are many things in my life you don’t approve of.
EMILY: Like what?
LORELAI: Like this couch.
EMILY: Well, this couch is terrible.
LORELAI: Okay, good – you think the couch is terrible. Now, at one point in my life, you saying a couch that I carefully picked out and had to pay off over eight months is terrible might’ve hurt my feelings, but not anymore.
EMILY: No?
LORELAI: No.
EMILY: Why not?
LORELAI: Because one day, I decided that instead of being hurt and upset by your disapproval, I’m gonna be amused. I’m gonna find it funny. I’m even going to take a little bit of pleasure in it.
EMILY: You take pleasure in my disapproval?
LORELAI: I encourage it sometimes just for a laugh.
EMILY: I don’t know what to think of that.
LORELAI: Think, ‘hey, that’s brilliant’, because this idea could set you free.
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Well, what can I say? Nothing but "hey, that's brilliant!"
Notes: Excerpt taken from Gilmore Girls, season 3, episode 10.
EMILY: You would?
LORELAI: You need to develop a defense mechanism for dealing with Grandma.
EMILY: What are you talking about?
LORELAI: You just need a system, a new mindset. Take me, for example.
EMILY: What about you?
LORELAI: Well, I know there are many things in my life you don’t approve of.
EMILY: Like what?
LORELAI: Like this couch.
EMILY: Well, this couch is terrible.
LORELAI: Okay, good – you think the couch is terrible. Now, at one point in my life, you saying a couch that I carefully picked out and had to pay off over eight months is terrible might’ve hurt my feelings, but not anymore.
EMILY: No?
LORELAI: No.
EMILY: Why not?
LORELAI: Because one day, I decided that instead of being hurt and upset by your disapproval, I’m gonna be amused. I’m gonna find it funny. I’m even going to take a little bit of pleasure in it.
EMILY: You take pleasure in my disapproval?
LORELAI: I encourage it sometimes just for a laugh.
EMILY: I don’t know what to think of that.
LORELAI: Think, ‘hey, that’s brilliant’, because this idea could set you free.
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Well, what can I say? Nothing but "hey, that's brilliant!"
Notes: Excerpt taken from Gilmore Girls, season 3, episode 10.
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