Are you telling us this stuff so we can buy your book? Because I got to tell you, if you are, that was some of the worst advice I ever heard.

— Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal)

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8 seconds sound clip from the Donnie Darko movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:08:52 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Get yourself up here. All right.

- Good morning.

- Good morning.

- Um, how much are they paying you to be here?

- Uh, excuse me? What is your name, son?

- Gerald.

- Well, Gerald I think you're afraid.

- Are you telling us this stuff so we can buy your book? Because I got to tell you, if you are, that was some of the worst advice I ever heard.

- Do you see how sad this is?

- You want your sister to lose weight? Tell her to get off the couch, stop eating Twinkies and maybe go out for field hockey.

- You know what? No one ever knows what they want to be when they grow up. It takes a little while to find that out. Right, Jim?

- And you... Yeah, you.

[...]

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But I'm over all of that. I'm painting and stuff. Writing. I want to be a writer. Or maybe a painter, I don't know, maybe both. I'll write a book and draw the pictures. Then maybe people will understand me. I don't know, change things.

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