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getting thrown out of the conservative party conference 1990 for saying what mattie storin and francis urqhart did in a hotel room

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Mattie Storin: I don’t know what to call you. There’s nothing I can call you. Francis Urquhart: You can call me Francis. Storin: That’s just it, I can’t. I don’t think of you as Francis. It’s so stupid. Urquhart: You can hardly call me Chief Whip. Storin: I want to call you Daddy.

Ian Richardson and Susannah Harker, House of Cards [1990] by Michael Dobbs

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Ian Richardson as Francis Urquhart and Susannah Harker as Mattie Storin in “House of Cards” (1990)

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every beautiful elegant and unnerving thin-featured machiavel in the upper echelons of british politics should be married to the staunchest most katharine-hepburn-as-eleanor-of-aquitaine woman in the world who a) refers to the current prime minister that he’s trying to fell as ‘the broken reed’ b) listens to wagner in the evenings, and c) will quote macbeth to and fro with him— and, fittingly, will stoke up his leadership ambitions even higher than they had been. and d) who will tell him openly that he should sleep with the young journalist he has insane tension with if he likes her that much, prompting him to react like this

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playing with the hopes and dreams of a daughter. now gentle, now hard. rebuking and rewarding. chastising and forgiving. the pleasures of a father. of a father of daughters. what greater power is there than that? why should a man want more? why should i yearn to be everybody's daddy? / sometimes i think we must all be whores now.

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Ian Richardson as Francis Urquhart and Susannah Harker as Mattie Storin in “House of Cards” (1990)

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“After life’s fitful fever he sleeps well.”

Richard III. in the lavatory of 10 Downing Street quoting from “Macbeth”

Ian Richardson as Francis Urquhart in “House of Cards”

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when you’re three episodes deep into the 1990 political miniseries and they hit you with the ‘hardly the words of an independent young woman’ ‘oh, but they are. i’m not anyone’s toy. i don’t get chosen, i choose. and i’m not interested in anyone’s taboos about age’ stare

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daddy’s going to be honest kitten. charles collingridge’s brother did not buy the mendox shares

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none of you bitches will ever do it like mattie storin

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malcolm tucker moodboard

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11 minutes 51 seconds into house of cards 1990 episode 3 and i have to pause and go and pace and make a cup of tea

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