Shadowing Practice: Good Will Hunting - "Idiosyncrasies" - Learn English Speaking with Video

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I went on a date last week.
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How'd it go?
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It was good.
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You going out again?
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I don't know.
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Why not?
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I haven't called her.
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You're an amateur.
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I know what I'm doing.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Don't worry about me.
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I know what I'm doing.
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Yeah, but this girl's like, you know, beautiful.
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She's smart.
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She's fun.
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It's different from most of the girls I've been with.
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So call her up, Romeo.
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Why?
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So I can realize she's not that smart, that she's fucking boring?
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You know what I mean?
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This girl's, like, fuckin' perfect right now.
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I don't want to ruin that.
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Maybe you're perfect right now.
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Maybe you don't want to ruin that.
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But I think that's a super philosophy, Will.
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That way you can go through your entire life without ever having to really know anybody.
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My wife used to fart when she was nervous.
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She had all sorts of wonderful little eosyncrasies.
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You know, she used to fart in her sleep.
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I'm sorry I shared that with you.
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One night it was so loud it woke the dog up.
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She woke up and got like, oh, is that you?
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See, I didn't have the heart to tell.
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Oh, God.
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She woke herself up.
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Yes.
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Oh, Christ.
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Ah, but, Will, she's been dead two years, and that's the shit I remember.
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Wonderful stuff, you know?
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Little things like that.
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Yeah, but those are the things I miss the most.
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The little idiosyncrasies that only I knew about.
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That's what made her my wife.
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Oh, and she had the goods on me, too.
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She knew all my little peccadilloes.
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People call these things imperfections, but they're not.
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Oh, that's the good stuff.
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And then we get to choose who we let into our weird little worlds.
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You're not perfect, sport.
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And let me save you the suspense.
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This girl you met, she isn't perfect either.
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But the question is whether or not you're perfect for each other.
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That's the whole deal.
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That's what intimacy is all about.
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Now, you can know everything in the world, sport, but the only way you're finding out that one is by giving it a shot.
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You certainly won't learn from an old fucker like me.
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Even if I did know, I wouldn't tell a pissant like you.
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Now, why not?
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You told me every other fucking thing.
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Jesus Christ.
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If I can talk more than any shrink I've ever seen in my life.
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I teach this shit.
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I didn't say I know how to do it.
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Yeah.
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You ever think about getting remarried?
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My wife's dead.
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Hence the word remarried.
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She's dead.
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Yeah.
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Well, I think that's a super philosophy, Sean.
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I mean, that way you could actually go through the rest of your life without ever really knowing anybody.
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Time's up.
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