Little Man Tate (1991)
Adam Hann-Byrd: Fred Tate
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Quotes
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[last lines]
Fred Tate : I once got this fortune cookie that said, "only when all things around you are different will you truly belong". Well, we're all different that's for sure. I see Jane everyday at the institute, and once in while Dede let's her take us out to a fancy restaurant. Sometimes we even have fun. After a while I was the most famous kid at Jane's school. But then a year later, a 6 year old boy named Willie Yamaguchi got into law school, and suddenly I wasn't such a big deal anymore. But I don't care, because I was happy.
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Fred Tate : Dede says I don't have dad. She says I'm the immaculate conception. That's a pretty big responsibility for a little kid.
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Damon : Come on, wake up and face north twink. I'm an asshole, assholes don't have friends. But then I don't really care.
Fred Tate : You don't?
Damon : A reasonable man adapts himself to the world around him. An unreasonable man expects to the world to adapt *to* him. Therefor all progress is made by unreasonable men.
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Fred Tate : My first grade teacher, Miss Nimvel, told Dede that I never paid attention. That I was probably retarded, and that I had a very limited future as a citizen of the United States. Then a week later, she said I should probably skip second grade, maybe even skip elementary school altogether.
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[first lines]
Fred Tate : It's funny, cause I *think* I can even remember being born. For the first two weeks of my life I didn't even have a name. Dede couldn't make up her mind. She finally decided on Fred. She said that she had never heard of a little kid named Fred before.
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Fred Tate : [to his mom] If you send me the checkbook, I'll balance it for you.
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Fred Tate : [to Jane] How come you always talk like you're reading a book?
