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"This ain't pool. This is for bangers. Straight pool is pool. This is like hand-ball, or cribbage, or something. Straight pool, you gotta be a real surgeon to get 'em, you know? It's all finesse. Now, every thing is nine-ball, 'cause it's fast, good for T.V., good for a lot of break shots... Oh, well. What the hell. Checkers sells more than chess."
"Vincent, get in the car, this is embarrassing. You're acting like some girl who got felt up at the drive-in."
"I can always go back to whiskey; it's been very good to me. I mean, you're sitting in it, and I'm wearing it."
"Pool excellence is not about excellent pool."
"[to Carmen about Vincent] We got a racehorse here, a thoroughbred. You make him feel good, I teach him how to run!"
"Money won is twice as sweet as money earned."
"[To Carmen] I'm not your daddy, I'm not your boyfriend, so don't be playing games with me. I'm your partner."
"[To Vincent] You gotta have two things to win. You gotta have brains and you gotta have balls. Now, you got too much of one and not enough of the other."
"I think maybe the money's what's throwing you off here today."
"[To Grady Seasons] Hey, Grady, up your ass with the spot. Is that okay with you?"
"[To Vincent] You win one more game, you're gonna be humping your fist for a long time. Got that, Vincent?"
"[To Vincent] It's like a nightmare, isn't it? It just keeps getting worse and worse."
"Narrator: Nine-ball is rotation pool, the balls are pocketed in numbered order. The only ball that means anything, that wins it, is the 9. Now, the player can shoot eight trick shots in a row, blow the 9, and lose. On the other hand, the player can get the 9 in on the break, if the balls spread right, and win. Which is to say, that luck plays a part in nine-ball. But for some players, luck itself is an art."
"Orvis: You know who you got stakehorsin' here for you? This here's Fast Eddie Felson. Who the hell are you? The end of the world?"
"Paul Newman - "Fast" Eddie Felson"
"Tom Cruise - Vincent Lauria"
"Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio - Carmen"
"Helen Shaver - Janelle"
"John Turturro - Julian"
"Bill Cobbs - Orvis"
"Robert Agins - Earl at Chalkie's"
"Alvin Anastasia - Kennedy"
"Elizabeth Bracco - Diane at Bar"
"Keith McCready - Grady Seasons"
"Grady Mathews - Dud"
"Steve Mizerak - Duke, Eddie's First Opponent"
"Iggy Pop - Skinny Player on Road"
"Forest Whitaker - Amos"
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.