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Terry Harper: The truth is like iodine. It only helps if it hurts.
Marla Harper: I just lost the meanin'.
Terry Harper: Of what?
Marla Harper: Christmas.
Terry Harper: Well, you're lucky you had it for as long as you did.
Shanna Harper: Momma, isn't it true that only a certain amount of people are allowed in heaven, and we're saved, right?
Wanda Holloway: Uh huh. That's 'cause we're Missionary Baptists as opposed to the other kind of Baptists who if they make a mistake, they have to start all over again. But Missionary Baptists - once saved, always saved. Your grandma and grandpa were real smart. They chose a sect that has guarantees.
Herself - Writer: Well, never believe anything a writer tells you.
Wanda Holloway: They even had me in "Sports Illustrated", in the Swimsuit Edition, but not in a swimsuit.
Verna Heath: Shanna is the symptom. Her mother is the disease.
Wanda Holloway: I'm not going to see a bunch of low-rent nobodies break her spirit.
News reader: More than 80 producers, agents and movie companies contacted the Heaths. To weed some out, their attorney Robert Schultz, said he rejected outright "anybody who called me baby".
Wanda Holloway: The things you do for your kids.
Wanda Holloway: But hey, so how're you gonna end this?
Himself - Producer: Uh, I don't know, we haven't finished the script yet.
Wanda Holloway: Huh... well... it's not fair. I hope you know that. I've been shafted before, I can get shafted again, over and over.

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