“Get the chalk! Get the fucking chalk! Put me on the board! Put me on the Cadillac board! Williamson! Pick up the fucking chalk! Hey, Rick I closed em! I closed the cocksucker!”

—  David Mamet , Glengarry Glen Ross

Glengarry Glen Ross (1993), Shelley Levene

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