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Wiseman: If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
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Wiseman: Don't ever write a check with your mouth you can't cash with your ass. Oh, and one more thing... don't wake the mother.
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Wiseman: For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
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[first lines]
Sweet Pea: Everyone has an Angel. A Guardian who watches over us. We can't know what form they'll take. One day, old man. Next day, little girl. But don't let appearances fool you, they can be as fierce as any dragon. Yet they're not here to fight our battles, but to whisper from our heart. Reminding that it's us. Its everyone of us who holds power over the world we create.
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Sweet Pea: You can deny angels exist, Convince ourselves they can't be real. But they show up anyway, at strange places and at strange times. They can speak through any character we can imagine. They'll shout through demons if they have to. Daring us, challenging us to fight.
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Sweet Pea: And finally this question, the mystery of whose story it will be. Of who draws the curtain. Who is it that chooses our steps in the dance? Who drives us mad? Lashes us with whips and crowns us with victory when we survive the impossible? Who is it, that does all of these things?
Sweet Pea: Who honors those we love for the very life we live? Who sends monsters to kill us, and at the same time sings that we will never die? Who teaches us what's real and how to laugh at lies? Who decides why we live and what we'll die to defend? Who chains us? And who holds the key that can set us free... It's you. You have all the weapons you need. Now fight!
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Sweet Pea: [From trailer] There are armed guards everywhere! And if Blue finds out, we're dead!
Rocket: We're already dead.
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Baby Doll: [to Blue after stabbing him] You'll never have me... ever.
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Blue Jones: Did you lose your fight, huh?
Baby Doll: No, I just found it.
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Sweet Pea: This can't be. We did everything right.
Baby Doll: A map, a fire, a knife, a key, one thing more, one thing more. It's me.
Sweet Pea: What?
Baby Doll: [a breathy 'Oh'] Oh, it's me, of course it's me. It's the only way this ever could have ended.
Sweet Pea: What do you mean?
Baby Doll: I'm saying you go home, go to your family. You tell your mom what Rocket said, make her happy. Go out and live a normal life. Love, be free, you have to live for all of us now.
Sweet Pea: Baby, no, you can't...
Baby Doll: Yes, Sweet Pea, you're the strongest. You're the only one of us who ever had a chance out there. You're going home and leaving, that's how we win. It's okay, it's better this way. Now listen, I'm gonna walk out there and when they come after me, you go, okay?
Sweet Pea: There's gotta be another way.
Baby Doll: No, this is right. This was never my story, it's yours. Now don't screw it up, okay?
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Rocket: Have you ever wanted to just take something back? You know, something you said, something you did?
Baby Doll: All the time.
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Dr. Vera Gorski: It's like we talked about, you control this world. Let the pain go, let the hurt go, let the guilt go. What you are imagining right now, that world you control. That place can be as real as any pain.
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Sweet Pea: [after Babydoll has danced for the first time] All that gyrating and moaning... a dance should be about more than titillation. Mine is personal, it says who I am. What the heck does yours say?
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High Roller: All I require from you is a slither of a moment. To have you not by force, but simply as a man and a women. To see in your eye, that simple truth, that you give yourself to me freely. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Now of course, for such a gem, I will give as well. I'm willing to give you freedom. Pure and total freedom. Freedom from the drudgery of everyday life. Freedom as abstract ideal. Freedom from pain. Freedom from responsibility. Freedom from guilt. From regret. Freedom from sadness. Freedom from loss. The freedom to be happy. Don't close your eyes; I need you to look at me. The freedom to love.
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Dr. Vera Gorski: I want you to dance.
[Bjork's "Army of Me" playing over speakers]
Dr. Vera Gorski: ...
[Music stops]
Dr. Vera Gorski: If you do not dance you have no purpose. And we don't keep things here that have no purpose. You see, your fight for survival starts right now. You don't want to be judged? You won't be. You don't think you're strong enough? You are. You're afraid. Don't be. You have all the weapons you need. Now fight.
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Stepfather: I don't want her to remember a thing.
Blue Jones: Don't worry, she won't even remember her name when I'm done with her.
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Blue Jones: You suddenly forgot what it is we do here?
Dr. Vera Gorski: I teach them to survive 'you'.
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Sweet Pea: Don't tell me. The priest brought you here from the orphanage to lose your virginity, right? Oh, let me rephrase that. To sell it.
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Sweet Pea: She wasn't impressed. All that gyrating and moaning. The dance should be more than just titillation. Mine's personal. It says who I am. What the heck does yours say?
Baby Doll: It says I'm gonna escape from here.
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Wiseman: German doctors and engineers...... have worked out how to return their fallen to the front lines. They're using steam power and clockworks to keep them moving. So don't feel bad about killing them. They're already dead.
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Dr. Vera Gorski: Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you will cease to live. Who said that? Mark Twain.
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Wiseman: Oh, yeah. One last thing.
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Blue Jones: I try to give you all... a good life. I try. I do. And all I ask for in return is just for... respect... honesty. You know-- Oh, that's okay, Margaret. A give-and-take relationship. But it's come to my attention-- it's come to our attention... that a few bad eggs... led by one little egg in particular... have spit in the face of that generosity... and are plotting against me. Me. Your father. Your lover. Your employer. Plotting to take from me my most precious possessions. Your very selves.
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Blue Jones: I've been thinking a lot... about all that money you're gonna make me. I've been thinking a lot about the High Roller and his hands all over you. I've been thinking about all those people out there... just watching you and lusting after you. And you'd think that would give me pleasure. I mean, I'm in the business of pleasure. But you know what it makes me feel like? I'm gonna be honest with you. it makes me feel like I'm this little boy... sitting in the corner of the sandbox... while everybody gets to play with my toys... but me. So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna take my toys and I'm gonna go home.
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High Roller: You're safe for now. I don't know how to put this delicately so I will spare you the insult of being vague... that you and I are supposed to screw. I hope you'll forgive my language... but I think you'll find it is in keeping with the spirit of the arrangement. Now I have absolutely no intention of simply taking you. In fact... I can think of nothing more offensive. You see, I am what you might call a man who has everything. And yet, I lack the one thing money can't buy.
Baby Doll: Love?
High Roller: Close. Truth... is more accurate. I seek a true moment, a moment of truth. In this... world of lies.
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