But they won't take me unless I can talk more genteel.(gesturing toward Higgins) He said he could each me.Well, here I am ready to pay.I'm not asking any favor - and he treats me as if I was dirt.(Turning toward Higgins) I know what lessons cost as well as you do, and I'm ready to pay.Pickering convinces Higgins that it would make an interesting challenge to actually teach Eliza how to speak - to change her from a drab 'guttersnipe' into a beautiful woman through language education:Pickering: What about your boast that you could pass her off as a duchess at the Embassy Ball, eh? I'll say you're the greatest teacher alive if you make that good." Scott argued to Kirk that any instability around theEnterprise'swarp core could endanger everyone: "It's a radioactive catastrophe waiting to happen.]Melies wrote the whimsical script, acted in the film in the lead role, designed the sets and costumes, directed, photographed, and produced the film! He hired acrobats from the Folies Bergere o play the lunar inhabitants named Selenites, and the scantily dressed assistants (or pages) who launched the cannon were dancers from the Châtelet ballet.Alone, our memories resist this disintegration and grow more lovely with the passing years.The Wienie King points to a bird embroidered on her wrap-around robe: "I love birds." He guesses that if she's he penniless tenant, she "must be broke." The elderly gentleman sympathetically and grimly remembers his own impoverished youth and his passing years, quickly ready to offer charitable support: "I was broke too when I was about your age, but I didn't have a figure like you've got.] The film's only other nomination was for Best Dance Direction (Hermes Pan) - specifically for this number.