I wish I had a million bucks. Hee haw!
You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.
It’s more than my job’s worth to stop him when he’s like this. He’s out to rule the world if he can get a government grant.
It’s a confusing world out there, and who I am got messed up for a minute.
You want to know why I came back so fast? I got to the end of our lane. I couldn’t remember where the old town road was. I went a little ways in the woods. There was nothing familar. Not one damn tree. Scared me half to death. That’s why I came running back here to you. So I could see your pretty face and I could feel safe and that I was still me.
You? Who are YOU?
Call me Ishmael.
So the fine woman you’ve chosen to run around with turns out to be broke and a murderer as well!
There’s no virtue in a woman being good if she’s never had a chance to be bad!
Mama, face it: I was the slut of all time.
Let me tell you something, and don’t you ever forget it: that success is nothing without someone you love to share it with!
DR. VERA: As you can see, we have more patients than beds. Your bill forced insurance companies to fund testing.
PRINCESS MICHELLE: All crammed in the hallway. Can’t they be sent to another facility?
AIDE: Every hospital in Shiloh is at capacity. Your health care bill has created more problems than it solved.
PM: It was supposed to make people’s lives easier, not more difficult.
DR. VERA: Easier no, but better. Many of these people would have been turned away before. We’re catching things we would have missed. We have people inisolation because of your protocols.
PM: You mean quarantine?
DR VERA: It’s precautionary, but a month ago, it would have slipped through the cracks. Mother and son. They came in this morning. Normally, we’d dismiss their symptoms as flu, but now… We were able to run a disease panel.
PM: And did you find anything?
DR. VERA: The minister of Health doesn’t want to incite panic. However, preliminary results indicate similarities to the disease currently in Sidon.
PM: But that’s Arauna Plague. People are dying in Sidon.
AIDE: As she said, we’re still running tests….
(later, at the palace):
PM to King: We need words with the King.
KING: It starts with words. Ends with my day shot to hell. Hmmm.
AIDE: I fear we burden only the King’s ear.
PM: He hides the threat of Plague on our soil, in our city.
KING: Plague. Consider your words.
PM: I witnessed a mother and child in Quarantine. Hidden away without notice.
AIDE: Necessary precautions. Measures already taken to prevent further contamination, should the worst, not yet confirmed, nor expected to be so, be so.
KING: Take us through the day, if it is.
AIDE: Highly contagious and always fatal, no vaccine or cure. The disease is only communicable for twelve hours, but if the two came in contact with others before we isolated them, within twelve hours, two cases become twenty, twenty become thousands.
KING: Can it be stanched?
AIDE: A logistical impossibility, with quarantining the entire city…beyond imagination, without knowing for certain.
KING: Know for certain, and soon.
PM: No logistics are impossible for the King. No measures are too inconvenient. At least let the people know.
(later, at church):
KING to REVEREND: The Plague-a pestilence that threatens to consume the nation that we built. I need 12 hours of curfew, 12 hours of locked doors and windows shut down, each to his home.
REV.: Every soul in compliance, 12 hours….
(later-KING to General: Surely you expect them all to obey. Someone will run into the street and spread death.
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Ignatz
“Don’t you dare die on me!”
What did I do wrong? I thought you’d be happy if I got shot!
A man may be hot, but he’s not, if he’s shot.
Cantina Bad Man: Your shooting iron work?
[Buster suddenly shoots him in the head]
Buster Scruggs: It appears to do, yes.
[the man falls down dead]
Not every situation requires your patented approach of shoot first, shoot later, shoot some more, and then, when everybody’s dead, try to ask a question or two.
-“BB”-
“What do you want? I want you, all of you.”