Waking the Dead

[giving Fielding some advice after a speech] And you get too personal. I mean, if anybody really knew Kennedy, you think they would've voted for him? You gotta be strong. So strong you're gonna want to blow your brains out. But you won't. So strong, people can say right to your face, "you're a dirty, lying son of a bitch", and it's not gonna make a bit of difference.

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It's a damn good feeling knowing you're out there patrolling New York Harbor, son. The fucking Cong could be shopping on Fifth avenue like that.

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Sarah Williams: Ambition is... the ice on the lake of emotion. Fielding Pierce: Who said that? Sarah Williams: I did.

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Sarah Williams: You can't be everything to me. Fielding Pierce: I want to be. Sarah Williams: Oh, dear. I love that you said that.

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Danny Pierce: Remember what Sarah used to say? Sarah Williams. You do remember Sarah, don't you? Fielding Pierce: Go fuck yourself. Danny Pierce: I know you do. She'd see some junkie on the street and people just walking by, nobody even noticing, but she'd see him and she'd say, "How do you know that's not Jesus?"

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Sarah Williams: Our lives have taken us so far apart now. It seems wrong to think we belong together. Fielding Pierce: But I think it. Sarah Williams: I do too. I think I know why. Fielding Pierce: Why? Sarah Williams: Because it's what we want. But... so few people get what they want. And the ones they do aren't really the lucky ones anyway. Fielding Pierce: They're not? Who are? Sarah Williams: The ones that do what they are meant to.

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