Nikander Quotes in Shadows in Paradise (1986)
Nikander Quotes:
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Nikander: [Nikander and Ilona are in a restaurant] Do you find it dull here? With me, I mean?
Ilona Rajamäki: Why?
Nikander: Just asking?
Ilona Rajamäki: Take it easy, Nikander! Everything is OK today. I don't know about tomorrow. Maybe the weather will turn, or something. What do you want from me anyway?
Nikander: Who? Me?
Ilona Rajamäki: Yes, you!
Nikander: Do you want to have more wine?
Ilona Rajamäki: Answer me!
Nikander: I don't want anything from anyone. I'm Nikander. Ex-butcher, now a carbage truck driver. Bad teeth and stomach, liver is hanging on! More than I can say about my head. No use asking what I want.
Ilona Rajamäki: I only asked.
Nikander: You're welcome!
Ilona Rajamäki: It's cold in here.
Nikander: I haven't paid attention to it.
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Nikander: [Nikander meets Ilona and the third man] How are you, old man?
Third Man: Alright.
Nikander: Want me to smash your face?
Third Man: No.
Nikander: Get lost then, we've got to talk.
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Pelle: [in Swedish] Do you have a cigarette, friend?
Nikander: [in English] Not for you.
-- Nikander -
[first lines]
Nikander: Friday!
Co-worker: [co-worker is offering Nikander a drink] You want?
Nikander: I'm driving.
Co-worker: Listen, Nikander. We've been a team quite a while. But I've been doing this for 25 years. I'm getting tired and so is my heart.
Nikander: What's the matter with it?
Co-worker: What ever.
Co-worker: I've got an idea - my own company. Five trucks to start with...
Nikander: What does it end?
Co-worker: The sky is the limit. The state and the banks will back us. I know everything about this game, but I'm not going to die behind the wheel.
Nikander: Where, then?
Co-worker: Behind a desk. And I need a good foreman.
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Ilona Rajamäki: Let's go!
Nikander: Where?
Ilona Rajamäki: For a drive, out of Helsinki.
Nikander: What, now?
Ilona Rajamäki: Yes.
Nikander: Ok. But I must see a friend first.
Ilona Rajamäki: Why?
Nikander: That's none of your business.
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Co-worker: I've got a slogan already: "Reliable garbage disposal since 1986."
Nikander: But that's now.
Co-worker: That's why it catches the eye.
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Nikander: The door's locked.
Melartin: It usually is in jail.
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Nikander: Be there at 6:00am tomorrow. You'll be on probation for a week.
Melartin: Great. Now I've just got to be brave and call my wife.
Nikander: Tell her you got a job.
Melartin: It won't help. She'll hit me anyway.
Nikander: Then why keep drinking?
Melartin: Makes me feel good.
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Nikander: Wait a minute.
Ilona Rajamäki: I don't think it will work out.
Nikander: What won't?
Ilona Rajamäki: Anything.
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Nikander: These are sheets and a towel.
Ilona Rajamäki: I can see that.
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Nikander: Remember that chick from the supermarket? Guess where she is now?
Melartin: Where?
Nikander: Sleeping in my bed.
Melartin: Get back there then.
Nikander: I can't.
Melartin: What's keeping you?
Nikander: Horror, fear and this job.
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Ilona Rajamäki: Don't you know how to knock?
Nikander: It's my apartment.
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Melartin: My mother-in-law's babysitting tonight.
Nikander: Oh yeah?
Melartin: The four of us could go out together.
Nikander: Where?
Melartin: The classic thing: a movie first, then a bar, get drunk.
-- Nikander
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