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Anastasia: I'm going to run away and be an actress when I grow up. It's my destiny! Once you've felt the call of the stage, you know. It's in your blood.
Marie: A princess can't be an actress. You might as well say you feel the call to be a trollop!
Anastasia: What's a trollop? Trollop? Trollop! Yes, that sounds nice! Perhaps I'll be a trollop instead.
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Count Witte: If Russia mobilizes, there will be a war.
Tsar Nicholas II: The Austrians are shelling Belgrade. We must be ready to defend ourselves. I'm ordering prayers for peace to be said in all the churches. But, now if you'll excuse me, I must see my ministers for armaments and recruitment.
Count Witte: It is in our hands, not God's. He gave us minds to reason. We can talk sanity to lunatics. We can calm mad dogs. God help us if we have to start praying! We can pray when we bury the dead!
John McEnery
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