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I can't bear it.
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You start out expecting something much more,
and some of your contemporaries achieve it.
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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.
1:21:32
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.
1:22:00
Well, you're partly right.
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Some of the people whom I mentioned
were not from... UHB?
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- That's right.
- UHB backgrounds, but some of them were.
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You're going to have to accept
that people from our background...
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are not doomed to failure.
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I - I wonder if they were typical UHBs.
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There was -There was probably
some factor which set them apart.
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And, also, their-
their career is not over.
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I mean, the failure
could still be to come.
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- He seems less pessimistic than you.
- I know. It doesn't ring true.
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Look, there's a light on.
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We can't go up to her place
unannounced after midnight.
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- It all depends who's on the elevator.
- It's not a question of who's on the elevator.
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I mean, you've known Sally
for, what, 1 0 days?
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And you're barging in on her uninvited
in the middle of the night?
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She said we should come up anytime
we saw the living room lights on,
which they clearly are.