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Clips from Chariots of Fire

"Splendid! Rehearsals start on Monday. Iolanthe."
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"- I was a boy alto. - Perfect! You can be Queen of the Fairies."
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"Where were you when your country needed you?"
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"We have a duty, a solemn duty, to those millions of lives needlessly slaughtered!"
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"♪ When the boys are far away"
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"♪ They dream of home"
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"Well, glad to have you, Stallard."
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"Good middle-distance men don't grow on trees."
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"I can't vouch for those times."
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"Taken with the school alarm clock, most of them."
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"Give or take a second, they're good enough for me."
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"Have you come across a fellow called Abrahams? HM Abrahams?"
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"He's challenged for the college dash."
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"What's so special about that?"
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"In all the 700 years, nobody's ever done it."
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"Right, what do you do?"
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"Right, chaps, thank you! Thank you."
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"Let it be known that HM Abrahams of Gonville and Caius..."
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"has formally made challenge for the college dash."
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"You show 'em, Harold!"
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"For those not familiar with the rules..."
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"The challenger will attempt to run around the court perimeter..."
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"to and from a point beneath the clock..."
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"within the time taken by the clock to strike midday."
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"A distance traditionally recognised as one of 188 paces."
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"I say, Abrahams, what have you got on your feet? Rockets?"
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"The challenge will commence on the..."
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"- Abrahams, you haven't got a chance! - Do it for Israel!"
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"The challenge commences on the stroke of one."
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"The challenger must finish before the stroke of 12."
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"Come on, Abrahams, you swank!"
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"Will the challenger make himself ready?"
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"This Abrahams. What do you know about him?"
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"Repton chap."
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"Jewish."
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"- His father's a financier in the city. - Financier?"
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"What's that supposed to mean, I wonder?"
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"I imagine he lends money."
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"Exactly."
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"And what do they say about the son?"
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"Academically sound. Arrogant."
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"Defensive to the point of pugnacity."
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"Mm. As they invariably are."
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"Yet possessing a keen sense of duty and loyalty."
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"Do they say he can run?"
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"Like the wind."
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"Gentlemen, would you draw back, please? Away from the course."
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"Thank you."
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"Mr Abrahams, your position, please."
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"Owing to the absence of any other challenger..."
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"Mr Abrahams will run alone."
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"Not so, Mr Starter!"
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"Your name and college, if you please, sir."
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"Lindsay. I race beside my friend here."
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"We challenge in the name of Repton, Eton and Caius."
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"- I didn't know you ran. - Nor I you."
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"Some chap just told me about this. I thought I'd come and push you along."
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"- Delighted. - Splendid."
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"Good luck."
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"Gentlemen, to your marks, if you please."
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"Now remember, on the first strike of 12."
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"Come on!"
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"Eight!"
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"Nine!"
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"Ten!"
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"- Eleven! - Go on! Go on!"
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"Did they both do it?"
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"I think not."
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"- Young Lindsay failed by a whisker. - Pity."
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"Well, it's been done. And by a Caius man! You must be very proud."
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"The first man in seven centuries."
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"Perhaps they really are God's chosen people, after all."
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"I doubt if there's a swifter man in the kingdom."
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"Get to your marks."
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"Get set."
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"He may be your best friend, Sandy, but he's my best brother."
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"I'm thinking of him and not your blessed athletics team."
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"His heart's set on following Father in the mission."
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"Do you not think he's busy enough without taking up racing?"
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"He's fast, Jennie. You've seen him with a ball in his hands."
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"I've seen him with a Bible in his hands."
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"And I know which is the most important."
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"You can't deny him the chance."
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"Get him on the track, I'm telling you..."
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"Don't tell me, Sandy. I don't want to hear."
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"Eric's special to me. Precious."
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"I don't want his work spoilt with all this running talk, do you hear?"
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"There you are. Well done."
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"You know, ladies and gentlemen..."
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"one of the compensations of achieving a certain notoriety..."
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"if only as a rugby player..."
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"is that occasionally you're asked to give things away."
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"It's often said that giving beats receiving."
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"Let me tell you..."
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"the look of delight on those little boys' faces..."
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"was worth ten of the tin pots gathering dust on my Edinburgh sideboard."
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"When we were in China, my father here..."
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"was always waxing lyrical about his wee home in the glen."
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"But being oriental-born myself..."
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"like my brothers and my sister here..."
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"I suffered from a natural incredulity."
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"But looking about me now..."
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"the heather on the hills..."
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"I can see he was right."
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"It's very special."
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"Thank you for welcoming us home."
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"And thank you..."
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"for reminding me that I am, and will be whilst I breathe..."
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"a Scot."
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"Mr Provost, sir."
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"Before you allow Eric here to go..."
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"Is it not true that the main event of the meeting is still to be run?"
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"It is. Aye."
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"The 200-yards open championship."
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"It's the last event of this gathering, by tradition."
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"Do you not think, if we can find him some kit..."
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"we might persuade Scotland's finest wing to show us his paces?"
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"What do you say, Eric?"
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"To your marks!"
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"Get set!"
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