The West Wing (TV Series)
Internal Displacement (2006)
Timothy Busfield: Danny Concannon
Quotes
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Danny Concannon : We're both about to fall off a cliff. And I don't know what I'm gonna do with the rest of my life, except I know what I don't wanna do. And on Inauguration Day, you're going to be released from that glorious prison on Pennsylvania Avenue, with...
C.J. Cregg : No human skills?
Danny Concannon : Seems to me...
C.J. Cregg : I should punch you in the face.
Danny Concannon : That's what I'm talking about.
C.J. Cregg : Keep going...
Danny Concannon : So, if I'm gonna jump off the cliff, and you're gonna get pushed off the cliff, why don't we hold hands on the way down?
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C.J. Cregg : Men are like salmon. Swimming upstream, hosing down the riverbed with their indiscriminate seed...
Danny Concannon : Indiscriminate seed?
C.J. Cregg : Until...
Danny Concannon : Did you just say "indiscriminate seed"?
C.J. Cregg : Until they die, bloated and spent, belly-up in the sun.
Danny Concannon : Oh, quit sweet-talkin' me, baby.
C.J. Cregg : Unless they get taken out with a bear paw in the waterfall, as they deserve to be.
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C.J. Cregg : I wanna do my job. I wanna suck every morsel of meat off this experience before it's over.
Danny Concannon : Just get something done, will ya?
C.J. Cregg : That'll come down to what it always comes down to.
Danny Concannon : What's that?
C.J. Cregg : How dirty do my feet have to get without disappearing into the mud in order to get an inch of what I really want done.
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C.J. Cregg : I'm sorry about the other night.
Danny Concannon : Why?
C.J. Cregg : Because I was behaving like the kind of Type-A career woman freak automaton that I so very much do not want to become.
Danny Concannon : Please...
C.J. Cregg : I wanted to see you... and I haven't felt that in a long time and I just got all awkward and antagonistic.
Danny Concannon : That's okay, as long as you didn't kill our fish.
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Danny Concannon : Can I ask you something?
C.J. Cregg : Yeah.
Danny Concannon : Why'd you come here tonight?
C.J. Cregg : Cause you made me promise to.
Danny Concannon : Why'd you come?
C.J. Cregg : ...I wanted to see you.
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C.J. Cregg : I'm surprised you called. I vaguely remember shunning you.
Danny Concannon : Dignity's not my forte.
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Danny Concannon : I'm halfway through my life and I'm never quite sure if I'm doing anything right until I'm completely done doing it wrong.
C.J. Cregg : Work with it.
Danny Concannon : So, this may not come out right.
C.J. Cregg : I forgive you.
Danny Concannon : And incrementalism is not an option. I'm forced into a heroic posture.
C.J. Cregg : Heroic can be good.
Danny Concannon : Feels funny.
C.J. Cregg : You can do it.
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C.J. Cregg : Can't do anything if you don't get elected.
Danny Concannon : Your boss never has to get elected ever again. But, you guys are content running out the clock with the same game of well-intentioned defense you've always played.
C.J. Cregg : That's not true.
Danny Concannon : You could do more in a day than most people could do in a lifetime.
C.J. Cregg : You think I'm not aware that I'm living the first line of my obituary right now?
Danny Concannon : So, don't get hypnotized by complexity, make it count.