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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 297534" data-attributes="member: 22">1961Ray: Jock brought me to a cattle auction first time, I guess I was sixteen.Bobby, speaking to Christopher in 1991: I don’t think I was much older than you are right now [ten] when Grandpa took me out on my very first cattle drive.Bobby: I remember how much fun it was when your grandpa would take me out on a cattle drive. You know, sometimes Grandma would come along too and she was darn good with a rope.Christopher: It must have been fun when you were growing up.Bobby: It sure was. Bobby, riding on Southfork in 1988: I remember when the grass on this part of the ranch was so thick and high you could barely walk through it.Guzzler Bennett, speaking about Braddock County in 1978: Look at all these houses. Used to be nothing out here but prairie.Bobby: When I was a boy, the herd was so large, there was cattle as far as you could see. Sometimes it would take a week, maybe two weeks, to get them from one pasture to another.Christopher: You really liked it then, didn’t you?Bobby: Those were the best times of my life. Then Ewing Oil business started taking over.Val on her and Gary: Somehow we always had fun together, even through the rough times.Lilimae on Val and Gary: Everything bad that's ever happened to them happened because of his family.Val: Gary just never got along with his family.Val on Gary: He was the dearest man I ever knew, every day I knew him, till he brought me home to meet his family. He kept saying no and stalling, but after you [Lucy] were on the way I made him take me home to meet them. Well, that was the biggest mistake of my whole life. Pam, looking around Southfork in 1978: Who lives there?JR: No-one now. That’s my middle brother Gary’s house. He used to live there with his little bride, briefly. Gary on him and Val: Our marriage was so short.Lucy on Gary and Val: He brought her home, but he couldn’t do nothing right.Val on the Ewings: Last thing they wanted was him being married to a nobody like me. Val: I was just poor white trash from Tennessee who got Gary into trouble. I wasn’t fit to be [Lucy’s] mother. I had no business raising a Ewing, much less being one.JR on Gary: I tried to annul that marriage to that trashy girl.Val on Gary: He just wasn’t strong enough to stand up to them, especially to JR.Val: Bobby was the only one who ever treated me like a … who ever acted like he was on my side. Val on her and Bobby: We were really very close. There were times when I …Val to Bobby: You were just a child.JR: We were all pretty young and hotheaded in those days. I guess I was the worst offender of us all.Val on her pregnancy craving: Watermelon pickle, I loved it. Lucy on Dr Grosvenor: He delivered me.Sue Ellen to Lucy: You’ve known JR all your life.Lucy on Gary and Val: They didn't want me when I was born.Gary: I've never had a real relationship with my daughter.Miss Ellie to Gary: You tried to stand on your own two feet when you had Lucy, and your family kicked your heels right out from underneath you.Gary: I let my brother mess up my life when I was a kid.Gary: As far as I could tell, I wasn’t good for anything.Val: Oh, that was your big brother talking, not you.Gary: Well, I didn’t do much thinking on my own in those days. All I knew was I couldn’t breathe on this ranch.Val to Gary: You’ve always been too hard on yourself.Gary to Val: You’ve always been very complimentary, very supportive. It’s just sometimes, the truth would be better than politeness. Val: You’ve always come through for me.Gary: Except when I didn’t.JR on Gary: He was always weak.Sue Ellen: Is that why you drove him away?JR: I did not drive him away. I tried everything I could to keep him around here. I had plans for him. He was going to college.JR: Gary’s never amounted to much in his life and I think that’s because of you. You think small, Valene, real small.Lucy on Gary: He started drinking all the time.Val on Gary: I used to think that he drank because he didn't fit in, because his daddy and his brothers said he was weak and he had no character because he wasn't a tough and ruthless Ewing like them. Miss Ellie: No-one wants you to be perfect, Gary, which is what you always thought you had to be.Val: I lived with Gary when he was drinking and I would see him drift away, even when we were sitting in the same room. I would watch him helplessly and I’d wonder what I was doing wrong, how I’d failed him. Well, I know now it wasn’t me. There was nothing I could do to stop him and nothing I could blame myself for. The only thing I could do for Gary was stand by him and love him, and wait.Gary on Val: All the times she should have left home, but didn’t.Ray: I was just a kid the last time I was back in Emporia, Kansas.Margaret Krebbs dies 1961Ray on Reverend Wyman: He was the one who was there when Mama died?Lil Trotter: He was. Beautiful service. Sue Ellen on her father: I guess it was a year [after Kristin was born] Mama got a letter saying he was dead.Sue Ellen on her mother: My father drank away everything she wanted out of her life — money, prestige, social position. So she did the next best thing. She raised me to have that kind of life. She raised me to marry somebody important — to love, honour and obey. And she made it very clear to me that if I couldn’t love and honour, I could sure as hell obey.Dr Gibson, therapist: That’s valid, Sue Ellen. A lot of women thought that way.Sue Ellen: Mama wanted us girls to have everything she wanted, but couldn’t get by herself. We were like little dolls created to fulfil all the things she wanted. She wanted wealth and position and decided we could get it for her.Patricia: I raised those daughters of mine to be perfect wives, perfect mothers. Sue Ellen: How hard you worked to turn me into the perfect wife.Patricia: When your father died, that’s all I devoted my life to. And I succeeded.Patricia: Sue Ellen was everything I wanted her to be.Sue Ellen on Patricia: She had such high hopes for Kristin, and for me.Sue Ellen: You’ve always made plans for Kristin, for me.Patricia: Of course I did. You were my children. Sue Ellen: Your children had feelings too. You were too busy planning for their future to hear what they needed in the present.Patricia: That’s not true.Patricia: There’s nothing wrong with the way Sue Ellen was brought up.JR: No, just the way she turned out.Patricia to Sue Ellen: All I ever wanted for you was for you to have the good things that I never had. I did the best I knew how.Judith Ryland to her son Harris: I made my bones dealing with psychopaths and criminals while you were still playing with your Easy Bake oven.Judith Ryland on Harris: He had always been sheltered.Ann Ewing on Harris: He’d grown up in a suffocating home. His mother controlled his every breath.Harris Ryland to Judith: I have done everything that you have ever asked me to do.Mack, speaking about Eric Fairgate in 1985: I was ashamed of my parents at his age [nineteen].Michael Fairgate, speaking in 1986: Mack said his dad hasn’t remembered his birthday in twenty-five years.Lilimae on her son Joshua: He was born on Easter Sunday.Lilimae: How could I have given birth to anyone as cold, as cruel?Joshua: I am what you made me.Jonathan J Rush on him and Lilimae: What we had was not love.Joshua: You had me.Jonathan: Sin!Val: Whereabouts are you from?Joshua: Tennessee, mostly.Lilimae: After Joshua was born, I tried to be a good mama. Joshua: Papa told me when I was born that Mama had a superstition about cribs. So the first year of my life I slept in a sink full of pillows. I’ve never heard of anyone else believing that, have you?Val: No, I haven’t.Lilimae: Joshua — Lord, he never wanted to sleep. Even as a baby, he had so much energy. Jack Ewing on his mother Nancy: I loved her. I could trust her. As long as she was there, nothing could hurt me. She was strong — not physically, but morally. And I remember her voices — her speaking voice which was clear and filled with truth, and her singing voice which seemed to come from a deeper part of her soul, a sadder part. I could never quite figure that out. When she sang, she seemed so far away, and I would put my head on her lap and I would close my eyes and I would try, try to dream with her. Greg Sumner: "Shall I be frighted when a madman stares?" It's a line from Julius Caesar. I played Brutus in college. He says it to Cassius — you know, the one with the mean and hungry look.Richard Avery: I've been working since I got into college.Anne Matheson: I never worked a day in my life.Karen: I was a candy striper once. I worked in a children's hospital.Karen, speaking to her daughter Diana in 1981: When I was your age [sixteen], we brought the house down with this number [‘Put On A Happy Face’].Jeff Cameron: What the hell is the red and the blue?Karen: My school colours.Diana: What was high school like? Was it as bad as they say?Karen: It wasn't bad at all.Diana: I mean the whole thing about good girls and bad girls. Was it really like that?Karen: Yeah, I guess so.Diana: What did Grandma tell you about handling boys? Karen: She said, "Don't." It never would have occurred to her to say that lovemaking is a beautiful experience when two people are …Mack on sex: You know how young people are. They’re … interested. But you, Karen, were undoubtedly a saint.Karen, speaking in 1981: I really only knew two men in my whole life. Karen: When you’re young, your whole life is new things, first times — your first date, your first prom, the first time you fall in love.Karen on Teddy Becker: The first serious boyfriend, the only serious one, until Sid.Teddy: As long as I’ve known you, you’ve been bright and bubbly and effervescent, spontaneous and impulsive. Karen: Yeah and it always got me into trouble.Teddy: Hey, don’t knock it. That’s what I fell in love with you for.Karen: When I got my first [credit] card, I went out and got my father this really expensive gift and then I bought dinner for my boyfriend. It wasn’t very prudent but it was a lot of fun.Rina Jackson: Did you pay the bill on time?Karen: Oh, you bet I did and then I put that thing away for three months! I mean, it really scared me when the bill came in and I realised how easily and how fast I could spend that money.Karen to Teddy: You were always very practical.Karen on Teddy: He always had that knack — holding people's attention, making them believe him and trust him.Val: Karen's had a college education.Karen: I once took a class on Picasso in college.Karen: Spanish — two years.Michael to Karen: You were an English major.Karen on ‘The Complete Poems of Emily Bronte’: I’ve loved these poems.Karen on Charles Scott: Someone from my University of Pennsylvania days.Karen to Victoria Hill: You've been competing with me since the day I met you. You always have [resented me]. Lilimae: I can't believe you went to school with Victoria Hill!Karen: Yeah, we were roommates.Gary: Did you have any idea then she was going to be famous?Karen: Well, we thought we were both going to be household words. Karen to Victoria: You always use my life as a yardstick to measure yours. Victoria Hill: You always could wrap me around your little finger.Karen: Sure, like a cobra.Victoria to Karen: Everything I learned about organising, I learned from you.Abby: Karen's been telling me that you and she were sorority sisters.Victoria: Karen Cooper in a sorority? Never. She wouldn't have been caught dead. She thought sororities were much too bourgeois. Karen: Don't give me that. You were the one who didn't want to go to Rush Tea. You thought it meant girls standing around saying, "Hurry up, finish your tea!"Victoria: What was that horrible girl's name? "First base, second base"?Karen: Bunny Phelps.Victoria: Funny Bunny Phelps. She'd go on a date and you'd say, "How'd it go?" And she'd go, "First base or hmm, second base?"Karen: We never knew if she was going to get pregnant or win the Penethit. Annie Fairgate, Sid and Susan’s daughter: I haven't cried since I was two.Sid Fairgate on Susan: She left me. I was miserable for a while. I moped around, I felt sorry for myself, but after a while, you pick yourself up, you brush yourself off and you start all over again, and you start living your life. She left me — she made the choice.</blockquote>

Verification: Who played JR Ewing?