Yasmin Azir Quotes in Arabesque (1966)
Yasmin Azir Quotes:
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Yasmin Azir: Why don't you tell them where the cipher is?
David Pollock: Becasue I don't know where it is.
Yasmin Azir: You told me you had it.
David Pollock: You told me lots of things too. Looks like we're just a pair of pathological liars.
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David Pollock: Those stairs must lead somewhere.
Yasmin Azir: Are you sure?
David Pollock: If they don't, watch out for the last one!
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Yasmin Azir: This is like a recurring dream I used to have.
David Pollock: How did it end?
Yasmin Azir: Don't ask!
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Yasmin Azir: Are you burning it?
David Pollock: That's how you detect invisible ink. Weren't you ever in the Boy Scouts?
Yasmin Azir: I flunked the physical.
David Pollock: Should have tried my troop, we'd have waived it.
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Yasmin Azir: You've got to listen to me!
David Pollock: Boy, every time I try to listen to you someone either hits me over the head or tries to vaccinate me.
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David Pollock: I'll meet you in Knightsbridge at the Kelly Hotel. I'm registered there under the name of O'Malley.
Yasmin Azir: [confused] 'O'Malley'?
David Pollock: Yeah, there's a discount if you're Irish.
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Beshraavi: Before you came home, I received word that... Mr. Pollock had arrived safely in his rooms at Oxford.
Yasmin Azir: A hearty race, the Americans.
Beshraavi: I was also told that he was riding a bicycle... and singing a very strange song.
Yasmin Azir: A hearty and fun-loving race.
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Beshraavi: What do you suppose happened to Mustafa? He hasn't come back yet.
Yasmin Azir: Dead, I'm afraid.
Beshraavi: And servants so hard to come by these days...
Yasmin Azir: I saw several possible replacements at the zoo.
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Yasmin Azir: Yussef is not my boyfriend. I loathe him.
David Pollock: Of course you do. You just do what he tells you because he's holding your family hostage back in the old country.
Yasmin Azir: How did you know that?
David Pollock: Oh, come on. I've seen that movie.
Yasmin Azir: General Ali Ben Ali, the man he works for, threatened to kill my mother and sisters unless I cooperated with him.
David Pollock: And Beshraavi, who's he got, your Uncle Max from Newark?
Yasmin Azir: What do you mean?
David Pollock: Forget it. If you want to live with Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, that's your business.
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Yasmin Azir: [At the races, both dressed up posh] Well, if it isn't Mr. Dillingham.
David Pollock: By Jove, it's actually Lady Hetherington-Cartwright.
Yasmin Azir: Don't overdo it.
David Pollock: I didn't know you could.
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Yasmin Azir: The police think you killed Webster. Have you seen the papers?
David Pollock: I don't care what they say as long as they spell my name right.
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Yasmin Azir: $30,000 in exchange for your old age is a terrible bargain!
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Webster: That cipher, *where is it*?
David Pollock: Ask me later alligator.
Webster: *Where is it*?
David Pollock: I left it at Beshraavi's. After all, it belongs to him.
Yussef Kasim: Wrong again teach. He snatched it. Belongs to this cat right here. Now where is it?
David Pollock: Miss Azir, after all we've been through together couldn't you find it in your heart to put in a small word on my behalf?
Yasmin Azir: He told me he had it in his pocket.
David Pollock: [shaking head] Tattle tale.
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David Pollock: This isn't your house. This is my house, and you weren't invited, so go away!
Yasmin Azir: I didn't even know if you were alive, but I came to warn you anyway.
David Pollock: Warn me about what?
Yasmin Azir: Nazim's men. They are on their way here to get the cipher back. You've got to get away.
David Pollock: Now slow down a minute. Aren't you the same Miss Azir who just stood there while your friends tried to kill me?
Yasmin Azir: Oh David! You don't think I enjoyed that?
David Pollock: Oh! Well! So long as you didn't enjoy it!
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Yasmin Azir: Webster sold out to Nazim.
David Pollock: It must be a popular indoor sport these days.
Yasmin Azir: You're not including me i hope!
David Pollock: Of course not. We're believing you today.
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Yasmin Azir: [At a construction site - after they've both lied about where they were going] David, you followed me, didn't you?
David Pollock: No, I didn't! You went to the embassy, and I came here to my hotel.
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Yasmin Azir: [Addressing a uniformed Queen's Guardsman, under whose foot an important scrap of paper has lodged] Excuse me, soldier...
David Pollock: [correcting her] He's a Guardsman.
Yasmin Azir: Excuse me, Guardsman. I'm sorry to bother you. I know you're on duty, but... there is something under your foot that belongs to us.
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Yasmin Azir: [Meeting Pollock for the first time] You're an American?
David Pollock: Yes sir, indeedy-do, Ma'am.
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Beshraavi: Extraordinary sensation. Perhaps it was the way he looked at you?
Yasmin Azir: Who?
Beshraavi: Pollock
Yasmin Azir: Darling, if you start getting jealous over everyone who looks at me, it will do terrible things to your blood pressure. I don't think you have to worry about college professors.
Beshraavi: Why not?
Yasmin Azir: They're only interested in work.
Beshraavi: They're the most dangerous kind, my love. They're such expert peekers.
Yasmin Azir: Don't worry. If I were standing stark naked in front of Mr. Pollock, he'd probably yawn.
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David Pollock: Look, everyone's got problems, including me, so I'd just as soon not get mixed up in yours.
Yasmin Azir: But you are mixed up in them, whether you like it or not.
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Yasmin Azir: The candy! You are brilliant!
David Pollock: The result of a clean mind and a healthy body.
-- Yasmin Azir
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