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"Yvette Nicole Brown - Curtis' Secretary"
"John Krasinski - Sam Walsh"
"Jaleel White - Talent Booker at the Detroit Theatre talent show"
"Cleo King - Janice"
"Robert Cicchini - Nicky Cassaro"
"[singing] Ev'ry man has his own special dream And that dream is just about to come true Life's not as bad as it may seem If you open your eyes towards in front of you."
"[singing] We're your Dreamgirls, boy, we'll make you happy... Yeah! We're your Dreamgirls, boy, we'll always care We're your Dreamgirls, Dreamgirls will never leave you... No, no! And all you got to do is dream Baby, we'll be there."
"Hey, I got soul! You can't kill a man with soul!"
"I can't do it no more. I can't sing no more sad songs."
"Jimmy want a rib, Jimmy want a steak, Jimmy want a piece of your chocolate cake!"
"[Referring to a club in Florida where Curtis has booked the Dreamettes] That place is so white they will not even hire us to wash dishes!"
"Effie, it is time for you to perform. For the past four months I have been your food, your rent, your support network."
"Fame comes and goes, starts rise and fall, but dreams live forever."
"All you have to do is dream."
"One dream will change everything."
"Jennifer Hudson - Effie White"
"Jamie Foxx - Curtis Taylor, Jr."
"Beyonce Knowles - Deena Jones"
"Eddie Murphy || James "Thunder" Early"
"Danny Glover - Marty Madison"
"Anika Noni Rose - Lorrell Robinson"
"Keith Robinson - Clarence Conrad (C.C.) White"
"Dianna Agron - Jackie Morris"
"Hinton Battle - Wayne"
"Sharon Leal - Michelle Morris"
"Yvette Cason - May"
"Loretta Devine - Jazz Singer"
"Dawnn Lewis - Melba Early"
"John Lithgow - Jerry Harris"
"That's right Curtis. You stopped me once, but you'll never stop me again. [sings] 'Cause this time, Effie White's gonna win!"
"Deena, you know why I chose you to sing lead? Because your voice... has no personality. No depth. Except for what I put in there."
"[singing] And Lorrell loves Jimmy Lorrell loves Jimmy Lorrell loves Jimmy, it's true But Lorrell and Jimmy are through"
"[singing] And I am telling you I'm not going You're the best man I'll ever know There's no way I could ever go no, no, there's no way No, no, no, no way I'm living without you I'm stayin', I'm stayin' And you, and you...you're gonna love me."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.