| Movie |
October Sky |
| Year |
1999 |
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Homer:
Why're the jocks the only ones who get to go to college?
Roy Lee:
They're also the only ones who get the girls.
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O'Dell:
God's honest truth, Homer. What are the chances... a bunch of kids from Coalwood... actually winning the national science fair?
Homer:
A million to one, O'Dell.
O'Dell:
That good? Well, why didn't you say so?
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Quentin:
What do you want to know about rockets?
Homer:
Everything.
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Roy Lee:
Let them have outer space. We got rock 'n' roll.
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Roy Lee:
That thing had better fly, or you can kiss your chances of losing your virginity goodbye.
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Homer:
You know, it, uh, won't fly unless somebody pushes the button. It's yours, if you want it.
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Roy Lee:
I don't know why they'd drop a bomb on this place, be a heck of a waste of a bomb.
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Roy Lee:
I'll tell you what's unbelievable... captain of the football team being jealous of you.
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Principal Turner:
Miss Riley, our job is to give these kids an education.
Miss Riley:
Mmm-hmm.
Principal Turner:
Not false hopes.
Miss Riley:
False hopes? Do you want me to sit quiet, let 'em breathe in coal dust the rest of their life?
Principal Turner:
Miss Riley, once in a while... a lucky one... will get out on a football scholarship. The rest of 'em work in the mines.
Miss Riley:
How 'bout I believe in the unlucky ones? Hmm? I have to, Mister Turner, I'd go out of my mind.
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John:
[to Leon, about helping Homer] Don't you have some work to do?
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Homer:
[jumps into Roy Lee's car to go to football tryouts] Let's go, Roy Lee! It's almost nine.
Roy Lee:
You sure are in a hurry to get yourself killed, huh, kid?
O'Dell:
There are easier ways to commit suicide, Homer.
Homer:
Would you just step on it, Roy Lee?
Roy Lee:
[frustrated with his car] I *am* stepping on it.
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O'Dell:
That's a good idea. Four unidentifiable high school students lost their lives early this morning when their toy rocket exploded.
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[Insisting John help his son]
Elsie:
If you don't, I'll leave you. I'll find work. I'll do whatever it takes to get away from here. I'll live in a tree to get away from you. Don't you think I won't.
John:
[Softly] Where would you go?
Elsie:
Myrtle Beach.
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Quentin:
They watched us get arrested. We're practically ex-convicts. They'll never dance with us.
O'Dell:
Jesus, Quentin, you don't know anything about women.
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[imitating, incorrectly, Quentin's favorite saying]
Roy Lee:
Prodigenous!
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O'Dell:
[after hearing train whistle coming towards wrecked track] I-It's abandoned. Uh, look at the rust. Caretta number two shut down in '51.
[whistle blows again]
O'Dell:******
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[a mine worker, formerly one of the Tuskegee Airmen, almost gets hit when he watches Homer launch a rocket]
Leon Bolden:
Homer, I flew with the Red Tails in World War II. And seein' that rocket come at me... it almost took me back there.
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[about Homer going to college]
Jim Hickam:
Yeah, on a science fiction scholarship, maybe.
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Homer:
No. Coal mining may be your life, but it's not mine. I'm never going down there again. I wanna go into space.
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Homer:
Did you ever see Frankenstein and the wolf man?
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Elsie:
Your father always has to be the big hero. I swear if he dies I won't shed a tear.
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Quentin:
[shooting off their last rocket] Look at it go, Homer. This one's gunna go for miles.
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Homer:
[to his dad] Sure Dr. Von Braun is a great scientist, but he isn't my hero.
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Homer:
[to John] Dad, I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And it's not because I'm so different from you either, it's because I'm the same. I mean, I can be just as hard-headed, and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man as you. Sure, Warner Von Braun is a great scientist? but he isn't my hero.
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Roy Lee:
Are you sure we need this nozzle thing?
Quentin:
Are you kidding? The nozzle is the most important part - it directs the flow of the hot gases!
Roy Lee:
Hey, cool it, Quentin! Man, talkin' 'bout your 'hot gases'...
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Jim Hickam:
[at football practice] Hey, Lenny; take it easy on my kid brother, but make it look good, all right?
Jim Hickam:
[Homer is tackled hard] I thought I told you to take it easy on him.
Lenny:
I *did* take it easy on him
Homer:
[playing against Lenny] I'm gonna run right over you, you son of a bitch! You hear me?
[is tackled several times more]
Coach Gainer:
[helping Homer up] Well, Homer, you've sure got guts; but ya gotta know when to quit.
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Roy Lee:
[after a rocket launch] Holy*** it's headed for the mine.
[beat, then runs]
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Roy Lee:
What's an auk?
O'Dell:
It's a bird that don't fly.
Roy Lee:
You mean like a parakeet?
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John:
Vernon!
[slams Vernon against the wall]
Vernon:
We ain't at the mine now Hickham! This ain't your business!
John:
[to Roy Lee] You wait in the car with Homer, son.
[to Vernon]
John:
Now you listen to me you drunken son of a bitch. If that boy's father were still alive, he'd kick your*** So I'm gonna have to do it for him. If I see him with a bruise... you get a scar. If I see him with a limp... you get *crutches*! Do you hear me? Do you hear me?
[lets Vernon go]
Vernon:
I'm reportin' you to the union!
John:
Screw you and your damn union.
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Homer:
Man, we should be trying to get into that science fair instead of sitting around here like a bunch of hillbillies.
Roy Lee:
Well, I got some real sad news for you Homer. We *are* a bunch of hillbillies.
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Homer:
Listen, I'm sorry about what's going on around here, but it isn't my fault! What do you want from me anyway?
John:
You better watch yourself, Homer.
Homer:
If I go on to win at Indianapolis, I can go to college, maybe even get a job at Cape Canaveral. There's nothing here for me. The town is dying! The mine is dying! Everybody here knows that but you!
John:
You want to get out so bad, then go. Go!
Homer:
Yeah, I'll go! Yeah, I'll go!
John:
GO! GO!
Homer:
And I'll be gone forever! I won't even look back!
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John:
[after a cave in] Come on. Come on, Jensen. Come on back.
Jensen:
What happened?
Jake Mosby:
Whole damn mountain about fell on your head. And John here, he saved your life.
Homer:
That's my dad.
John:
I want you out of this mine, and don't you ever come back, you stupid son of a bitch. Didn't I tell you to watch those pillars? Now we coulda all been killed today, because you didn't have the sense to look up!
Homer:
[ashamed] That's my dad.
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Jake Mosby:
Buck up, Homer. You're a Coalwood boy! You get down there, get that shovel in your hands, coaldust on your neck, feel just as natural as a tick on a dog.
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