The Public (2018)
Emilio Estevez: Stuart Goodson
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Quotes
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Angela : So you're just really into books, huh?
Stuart Goodson : Books saved my life.
Angela : Saved your life?
Stuart Goodson : Books helped me get sober, and helped me turn my life around. They're tangible, they're real. Something I can get my hands and my head around, so yeah. They saved my life.
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Jackson : It's cold enough for you, Mr. Goodson?
Stuart Goodson : It's gonna be brutal, the next couple of nights, for sure.
Jackson : We could all come stay at your place!
Stuart Goodson : ...I would if I could...
Jackson : You could but you won't. No judgement here, though.
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Jackson : Reckon there's gonna be a hundred angry cops at the door soon, huh? You know there's a lot of vets in here. Can't imagine they'd care either way...
Stuart Goodson : We're all a bunch of bums, Jackson. Don't you know that?
Jackson : They gonna get in, they always do. This time, I'm a fight back.
Stuart Goodson : It's a fight you'll lose.
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Anderson : [Stuart has just quoted John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" to explain himself to the media] Good words.
Stuart Goodson : I wish they'd been mine...
Anderson : They *are* yours, Stuart. And mine. Theirs. They belong to all of us.
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Stuart Goodson : Sorry about tonight, Mr. Anderson.
Anderson : I'm not.
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Jackson : Mr. Goodson, I gotta talk to you. Look, uh, all the shelters downtown are full up again!
Stuart Goodson : Uh-huh, what about the emergency overflow at Shelter House?
Jackson : That's a forty minute walk away. In this weather? In these shoes? Look, Mr. Goodson, you know I'm a veteran, right? I served my country. This all I get?
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Anderson : I'm not in a position to declare our library an emergency shelter.
Stuart Goodson : People are freezing to death in our own city! How can you be okay with that?
Anderson : Woah, hey! I'm not! I'm not okay with it.
Stuart Goodson : Okay, you could call the mayor's office, call the mayor's office right now!
Anderson : Mr. Goodson... Stuart. Listen. The board trustees want you gone. That's what's going on. I'm trying, but I'm having a difficult time making a case for you to stay here. So no, the library will not be an emergency shelter tonight, tomorrow, not ever.
Stuart Goodson : ...They wanna fire me?
Anderson : They'd prefer if you tendered your resignation.
Stuart Goodson : I was following library protocol... they wanna fire me for doing my job?
Anderson : I'm sorry. It's out of my control.
[Walks away from Stuart]
Stuart Goodson : Out of your control? You have no idea how much shit is about to get out of your control, sir!
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Stuart Goodson : Cold enough for you, Ernesto?
Ernesto : I'm taking my ass back to Mexico if this cold keeps up!
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Stuart Goodson : Have you ever been arrested?
Myra : No, have you?
Stuart Goodson : Unfortunately. Pepper sprayed?
Myra : No! You have?
Stuart Goodson : ...Are we staying or we going?
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Detective Bill Ramstead : Goodson, you've got the doors open now, this is an opportunity for you to stand down, end this right now.
Stuart Goodson : You want us out? Give us somewhere to go. How about we all go to your place?
Detective Bill Ramstead : Well, my ex-wife got the house in Mt. Adams, so I'd love to see everybody go over there!
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Stuart Goodson : The patrons are staging an action!