DICK & JANE Quotes

“SPECTRA: Do you have anything to say to all the billions of people watching tonight? Any advice on the good life? DICK: (to JANE) Ladies go first, missy. JANE: I’m stunned I get any air time at all.”
― Jim Stallings, DICK & JANE: The Last American Boomers

“SPECTRA: And how about you, I see you’re younger by four big years. JANE: That’s all the edge I’ll need. SPECTRA: You deeply want to win the Last Boomer Standing Prize? JANE:  Whataya you think, sweetie? Money doesn’t matter anymore? SPECTRA: How wise. You’re so sweet and so pretty and upbeat. JANE: Listen, the only smile I got left is the one I’m sitting on.”
― Jim Stallings, DICK & JANE: The Last American Boomers

“after the war the survivors came home and impregnated apparently every fertile woman in Western civilization. Returning conquerors critics apparently say produced a generation of creative misfits and self-indulgent spoiled consumers. Controversial? Yes, but there’s much written evidence to back that up. Now they’re all gone but two, a woman and a man both just over 120 years of age by all accounts!”
― Jim Stallings, DICK & JANE: The Last American Boomers

“Happy New Year everyone! Spectra here! I’m in New York at the peak of midnight, entering a brand new year, 2090, my golly, people around the globe are tuning in to hear the last Boomer couple exchange traditional pleasantries. These two feisty survivors as always bring us hope and humor to the billions watching tonight. Why are they special? I couldn’t really tell you.”
― Jim Stallings, DICK & JANE: The Last American Boomers

“The Last Boomer, oh, who really cares? Just because the fame and the fortune of this “last Boomer standing” prize, maybe just sitting, for goodness sake. Even if the winner can’t enjoy the moolah, their family descendants will inherit millions. I don’t know what that much money means anymore. It just sounds like a big sad joke.”
― Jim Stallings, DICK & JANE: The Last American Boomers

“JANE: Oh no, not this showdown again with that silly old man. Every New Year they come with their cameras and they roll us out like humanity’s relics.”
― Jim Stallings, DICK & JANE: The Last American Boomers

“(Groans and moves the chair electronically with a twitch of his nose) Genetics. DNA. Go figure. I smoked, I drank, I ran around, I slept in a draft. I dodged the Draft! I had headaches and sweats and the heartbreak of psoriasis. I’m not joking. I’m choking on this thing called Time. Time out!”
― Jim Stallings, DICK & JANE: The Last American Boomers

“Dark stage. We hear groaning. A spotlight picks up a scowling, very very old Baby Boomer wrinkled white male. In fact, the last male Baby boomer…in a space-age life-preserving, gadget rich, electronic monitoring wheel chair. DICK: Oh God, another New Year…how long is this going on? How old am I anyway? One hundred thirty?”
― Jim Stallings, DICK & JANE: The Last American Boomers

“Dedication To all the Dicks and Janes In the mighty tsunami Of Baby boomers Who never gave up or in And surfed to the Far Shore With hearty love of Good Times And a Faith in Holding On For a better Wave to ride For All.”
― Jim Stallings, DICK & JANE: The Last American Boomers