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Land of Green Ginger (1973)

Gwen Taylor: Sally Brown

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• [on the train to Hull] 

  Reynolds : Are you travelling to Hull?

  Sally Brown : Yes.

  Reynolds : Going back home?

  Sally Brown : Just for the weekend. How did you guess?

  Reynolds : Experience... plus instinct. People from Hull, they all have this mysterious northern mist behind their eyes.

  Sally Brown : You must be clever.

  Reynolds : Not really.

  Sally Brown : It takes a clever feller to talk rubbish like that.

  Reynolds : No, what it is, it's envy.

  Sally Brown : [ironically]  Fancy.

  Reynolds : I've lived in about a dozen places. You get to envy people who know where home is.

  Sally Brown : "Promised Land", they call it.

• [telling Sally about the perils of being a skipper on a fishing trawler] 

  Mike Thurlow : I could run the flaming boat on a sandbank ten minutes out of St Andrews. Or get iced up in the Arctic - down like a stone. Anything could happen. Worst thing of all could happen.

  Sally Brown : The worst thing?

  Mike Thurlow : The thing you don't get away with, no forgiveness - if you don't catch no fish. They'll let you run aground - there'll be no comeback if the charts are wrong or the fog's thick. Get knocked-off for poaching round Iceland - they'll maybe let you off. Lose the odd feller over the side - it makes no odds as long as there's a good story. They'll let you off if you sink with all hands - heroes, then, appeal funds. But you try coming home with no fish. Then see what happens.