My Family (TV Series)
A Handful of Dust (2002)
Daniela Denby-Ashe: Janey Harper
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Quotes
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[Janey is in the bedroom with Kate while Ben is in the bathroom when he hears a buzzing sound coming from the bedroom and rushes into the bedroom to find Janey using an electric toothbrush]
Janey Harper : What?
Ben : I thought you were using a... your mother's toothbrush.
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Susan : How lovely that you came all this way for your dad's birthday!
Janey Harper : What? It's what any daughter would have done - after three hours of phone calls, 15 emails and a mobile jammed with text messages!
Susan : It's what any mother would have done!
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Nick : Hello, Janey.
Janey Harper : What?
Nick : Are you gay?
Janey Harper : No.
Nick : OK!
Janey Harper : Why?
Nick : Mum and dad asked me to ask you.
Janey Harper : How much did they pay you?
Nick : £20!
Janey Harper : I see. You're not going to tell them, are you?
Nick : No way! If I play this right, it could be regular work!
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Janey Harper : Oh, by the way, mum, is it alright if we borrowed the car today?
Susan : Of course it is, dear. It's fine by us.
Janey Harper : Great!
Susan : It's your life. Whatever you do, you're still our daughter and we'll always love you. Anything else you'd like?
Janey Harper : Yeah - £2,000.
Ben : What?
Susan : Of course, dear. We could even make it £3,000.
Ben : Yeah, or we could throw in the house and the furniture as well!
Janey Harper : No, no, no, no, no! That's far too much! I'll just settle for backpacking in the Far East for a year. You know, to find myself.
Ben : Well, that's alright. I'll give you a clue - you're here in my kitchen. There. Saved you a year off!
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Kate : You OK?
Janey Harper : No. You know, I was this close to getting my backpacking trip.
Kate : Huh?
Janey Harper : You know, I knew I could count on mum's hand-knitted hippy values. But how could I forget about my dad? I'm such an idiot.
Kate : What do you mean?
Janey Harper : Look... well, if they thought I was gay, backpacking would be the least of their worries!
Kate : What? So, I'm part of 'Operation Lesbo'?
Janey Harper : Well, come on, Kate. We've used each other - you know, you get your free weekend and I get... You know, it would serve them right if I really did have an affair with you!
Kate : Hah! In your dreams!
Janey Harper : What?
Kate : I mean, look at you!
Janey Harper : I look alright.
Kate : ...and self-centred, boring and talk about shallow! You'd make a paddling pool look deep!
Janey Harper : I do look good.
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Janey Harper : Mum, dad, there's something I need to tell you.
Susan : [while holding Ben's hand] Yes?
Janey Harper : I don't know how to say this. But I mean... the thing is... I'm shallow.
Ben : [Nods in agreement] Shallow?
Susan : Are you sure, dear?
Janey Harper : Yes! Yes, I've been trying to hide it; bury it deep in my inner self. But it turns out I haven't got one!
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Janey Harper : I'm never confused, mum! I'm too shallow!
Susan : She's not shallow, is she, Ben?
Ben : Hmm? Well, I... I suppose we've always secretly known it, y'know?
Susan : No, we haven't.
Ben : All those tell-tale signs: the magazines under the bed. Tatler, Vogue, Hello! magazine.
Susan : That's not all she reads.
Janey Harper : Actually, it is!
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Susan : Janey, I've always taught you it doesn't matter what other people think about you.
Janey Harper : You haven't got a clue, mum! What other people think about you is the whole point of being shallow!
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Ben : Janey, it... it's always, you know, difficult putting yourself into someone else's shoes...
Janey Harper : Shoes...
Ben : No, forget shoes!
