The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)

Sonia Braga: Ruby Archuleta

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• Ruby Archuleta : What good is a hometown if everyone you know is gone?

• Ruby Archuleta : I thought you were supposed to be some big, progressive lawyer.

  Charlie Bloom : Big? Big? Never. No. But my clients couldn't pay, so I guess, uh, progressive.

• Ruby Archuleta : Would you at least go to the meeting? How could it hurt you?

  Charlie Bloom : I don't know yet. Probably in a way that I'm overlooking right now.

• Ruby Archuleta : I knew Jose Mondragon couldn't go through his entire life without attempting at least one great thing.

• Ruby Archuleta : I don't know where you come from, but things must really turn out shitty there.

• Ruby Archuleta : My people have been here for 300 years. I have a right to stay.

• Charlie Bloom : Wake up, Ruby! It's not the '60s. Nobody gives a shit anymore.

  Ruby Archuleta : I do!

• Joe Mondragon : I head the crew. You supply the plumbing. And do you know for what price? Fourteen dollars an hour! That's three months' work guaranteed.

  Ruby Archuleta : Just a bribe, Jose.

• Ruby Archuleta : In return, you give up the beanfield, right?

  Joe Mondragon : What beanfield? I'll make more in one day than on all those beans.

• Ruby Archuleta : He's not gonna die. He should have been dead a long time ago, but he never quits.

• Ruby Archuleta : Right now, at this moment, isn't it wonderful?