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(Jukebox; Woman )
I won't be loved, baby
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When I was in college, we'd go to dances
during Christmas vacations.
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- Do they still go on?
- Yes.
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- Pretty much reduced though.
- Yeah.
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Ah, well, I wouldn't put
much stock in them.
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You go to a party, you meet a group
of people, you like them, you think...
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''These people are going to be my friends
for the rest of my life.''
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Then you never see them again.
I wonder where they go.
1:20:28
Do you think it's true, though,
that, generally speaking...
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people from this sort of background
are doomed to failure?
1:20:34
Doomed?
That would, uh, be far easier.
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No, we simply fail
without being doomed.
1:20:40
- But you feel that you have failed.
- Yeah.
1:20:43
You can still afford
to come to places like this though.
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I'm not destitute.
I've got a goodjob that pays decently.
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It's just that it's all so mediocre,
so unimpressive.
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The acid test is whether you take any pleasure
in responding to the question...
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''What do you do?''
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I can't bear it.
1:21:03
You start out expecting something much more,
and some of your contemporaries achieve it.
1:21:08
You start reading about them in the papers
or seeing them on TV.
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That's the danger
of midtown Manhattan -
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running across
far more successful contemporaries.
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I try to avoid them whenever I can.
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But when I can't,
they're always very friendly...
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but inevitably they ask,
what am I doing, or think it.
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I - I find it hard to believe that many people
from our background are successful.
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Aren't you confusing them with people
that you might have known from college...
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who came from normal backgrounds?
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It's not surprising that -
that an energetic, self-confident achiever...
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free of UHB illusions...
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should be successful.
1:21:47
- UHB? What's UHB?
- UHB.
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U.H.B. It's an acronym
for Urban Haute Bourgeoisie.
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It's a more sociologically precise
alternative...
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to ''preppy'' and other terms.