The Good Lie (2014)

Arnold Oceng: Mamere

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Aid Worker : Step up, please.

  Refugee : Don't forget us in America.

  Abital : Now we can finally find out what this means.

  Mamere : [narrating]  This is the story of my brothers and sisters. When we were little we did not know many things. We did not know the world was big, or that it was different from us. We only knew our villages in Sudan, which have been there for thousands of years. I should say Southern Sudan, for we were soon to learn that was an important distinction.

• [Paul is laughing on his bunk bed] 

  Mamere : What is so funny?

  Paul : I'm thinking about that chicken.

  [All three boys laugh hysterically] 

• Immigration Official : Your date of birth is unknown?

  Mamere : Yes.

  Immigration Official : Like a lot of the others, you will be assigned january 1st.

  Mamere : Why on this night.

  Immigration Official : There will always be a party.

• Mamere : So, what time should we be expecting him

  [Santa Claus] 

  Mamere : ?

  [Paul laughs] 

  Pamela : Very late at night. And only if you're good.

  Mamere : Sounds like a burglar to me.

• Carrie Davis : Hi... Hey, you must be the guys from... Somolia?... Senegal? I'm sorry, help me out here.

  Mamere : Sudan?