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Favorite quotes:

"As the world turns, we know the bleakness of winter, the promise of spring, the fullness of summer and the harvest of autumn. The cycle of life is complete."
-Irna Phillips

"Good morning, dear. What would you like for breakfast?"
-Nancy Hughes

"When the audience says 'he would never do that,' then you have failed."
-Douglas Marland

"Hello, Barbara."
"If I tried to kill you, you'd be dead."
-James Stenbeck

"Susan, get outta here. Get outta here right now, because in 2 seconds, I'm gonna flatten you."
"Woman, do you think I give a damn about Douglas?!"
-Kim Sullivan Reynolds Dixon Stewart Andropoulos Hughes

"I'm lucky enough to be able to call this man and this woman 'Mom and Dad.'"
-Bob Hughes

"SHE'S YER BABY!"
-Iva Snyder Benedict

"Didn't anyone tell you? I have a savior complex."
-Dustin "Dusty" Donovan

"You just listen up, cookie. I wrote the book on how to trap a man."
"This world was made for couples."
"Lord, Lucinda could be my daughter in-law."
"I feel, to me, that a house represents something that is too permanent."
-Lisa Miller Hughes Eldridge Shea Colman McColl Mitchell Grimaldi Chedwyn

"Does the word slut mean anything to you at all, Emily?"
"Paul, Paul, NO, PAUL, PAUL!"
-Barbara Ann Ryan Stenbeck St. Clair Munson Munson Dixon Munson Montgomery Stenbeck

"It's spring. We don't want to talk about a suicide."
"My Jesuit is becoming a tigress, is she?"
"Hog jowls? Ugh!"
"I'm ALWAYS woman of the year."
"Frocks will have to wait."
"Sugar, I already have a subscription to the Illinois Gazette."
"Oh, you mean it doesn't bother you that we might be getting into incest here?"
"Okay, off with them. Take 'em off!"
"I have been your age, Lily, but you have never been mine."
"I don't need sympathy from 'Sweet Susan!'"
"I think there's been enough killing."
"You drink it, John. It's better in the board room."
-Lucinda Esteban Guest Walsh Dixon Stenbeck Wheatley (née Mary Ellen Walters)

"I think you're a slut. All you ever do is mess up this family."
"Don't you know what Photoshop is, Mom?"
-Parker Joe Dixon Munson Snyder

"You're Lisa. There's always a man."
-Damian Grimaldi

"Would you mind if I called you 'mother?'"
-Frances "Frannie" Hughes Crawford

"Like I need perfume to remind me of you."
-Thomas Christopher Hughes

"I am carrying the devil's own child."
"Why are you sorry? You weren't the prostitute, I was."
"Get her back to the cracker house."
-Emily "Emmy" Stewart Snyder Munson Ryan Hughes

"Why did I sleep with my brother's wife?"
-Holden Snyder

"Well, at least I don't have a gay husband."
-Jade Taylor

"Being a sex object does have its drawbacks."
-Carly Tenney Munson Dixon Snyder Lowe Snyder Snyder

"You old faker. Get up out of that chair."
"Say, what about this coffee?!"
-John Dixon

"Did you really drive to a crime scene with Adam in the back seat of your car?"
-Harold "Hal" Munson

"Where's the freakin' money?!"
-Paul Stenbeck Ryan

"[Douglas Marland] never belittled a character to make another one look smarter."
-Hilary B. Smith

"Children's clothes by Good Lad of Philadelphia."
"We'll continue with part 2 of As the World Turns, in just a moment."
-Dan Region

"Does Susan ever explain what she means?"
-Ellen Lowell Stewart

"It wasn't a mugging. It was Noah."
-Luciano "Luke" (Grimaldi) Snyder

"It looks like there's an intruder in my home. My son is in my home. I have to protect my son."
"Sir, I really object to this Mickey Mouse assignment."
"It's bad enough that Tom had to give John a black eye, so why don't you leave before I give YOU a black eye."
-Margo Montgomery Hughes

"Once in a blue moon, I catch myself as Frannie on YouTube. I have fond memories."
-Julianne Moore

"I'm your wife, Tonio, not your whore."
-Sierra Esteban Reyes Montgomery Drake

"Slow down, Ali!"
-Aaron Snyder

"'Duclain' is an anagram for Lucinda."
-Cal Stricklyn

"You'll never believe what happened on 'As the World Turns.'"
-"Joan" on Mad Men

"I come from a large family of Snyders who lived on a farm, and Julie just married into the show's farm family, the Snyders. My father's name is Joe Wendall Snyder, and my character is Julie Wendall Snyder, spelled the same way. And Doug Marland's birthday, May 5, is the same as my mother's birthday. It also turns out that my mother's name is the same as that of Doug Marland's mother, Bernice Snyder."
-Suzenne Marie Seradwyn

"I have to say, and uh, I hope that you don't take offense, but, um, you are one controlling bitch."
"I don't like to use labels."
-Brian Wheatley

"The Hughes' seem more fleshed out in [Doug Marlnd's bible] than in the entire time I was working on As the World Turns. I felt Bob and Kim and Lisa and Nancy were people, not icons. Three dimensional characters, instead of symbols of flawlessness."
-Tom Casiello