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In which movie did Meryl Streep say...

So you enjoy the films of Meryl Streep. Let's see how well you know them. Match the following lines with the movies in which they were spoken. Can you get them all right?

  1. [writing] He held her body as he had for a millennium with an ease neither of them had ever, ever known. He reached for her [pauses trying to think of an appropriate word] ...nub. [she backspaces "nub" and tries again] Love... button!

  2. Also, tell Richard I saw all the pictures that he sent for that feature on the female paratroopers and they're all so deeply unattractive. Is it impossible to find a lovely, slender, female paratrooper? Am I reaching for the stars here? Not really.

  3. I was hoping, somehow Michael, maybe you had Nick with you...He never wrote to me, he never called me.

  4. I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then.

  5. By all means move at a glacial pace; you know how that thrills me.

  6. We're done here.

  7. When I'm with him I feel... Yes, I am living. And when I'm not with him... Yes, everything does seem sort of silly.

  8. Sally, I think I'll buy the flowers myself.

  9. The details of your incompetence do not interest me.

  10. Is there some reason my coffee isn't here? Has she died? [There are variants of this line in the deleted scenes]

  11. That's all. [At conclusion of any request made of Andrea]

  12. If I see freesias anywhere, I will be very disappointed. [There is an alternate version of this line on the deleted scenes]