“I want to be alone for a couple of hours to kind of assemble myself....” – Don Birnam, The Lost Weekend ... Movie Quotes Database

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Don Birnam Ray Milland

I want to be alone for a couple of hours to kind of assemble myself. Is that such an extraordinary thing to want?

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