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Nurse Ratched : Aren't you ashamed?
Billy : No, I'm not.
[Applause from friends]
Nurse Ratched : You know Billy, what worries me is how your mother is going to take this.
Billy : Um, um, well, y-y-y-you d-d-d-don't have to t-t-t-tell her, Miss Ratched.
Nurse Ratched : I don't have to tell her? Your mother and I are old friends. You know that.
Billy : P-p-p-please d-d-don't tell my m-m-m-mother.
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Nurse Ratched : If Mr. McMurphy doesn't want to take his medication orally, I'm sure we can arrange that he can have it some other way. But I don't think that he would like it.
[McMurphy turns around to see Harding smiling at him]
McMurphy : Heh, YOU'D like it, wouldn't you?
[to Nurse Ratched, regarding the pills]
McMurphy : Here, give it to me.
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Nurse Ratched : The best thing we can do is go on with our daily routine.
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McMurphy : Nurse Ratched, Nurse Ratched! The Chief voted! Now will you please turn on the television set?
Nurse Ratched : [she opens the glass window] Mr. McMurphy, the meeting was adjourned and the vote was closed.
McMurphy : But the vote was 10 to 8. The Chief, he's got his hand up! Look!
Nurse Ratched : No, Mr. McMurphy. When the meeting was adjourned, the vote was 9 to 9.
McMurphy : [exasperated] Aw come on, you're not gonna say that now! You're not gonna say that now! You're gonna pull that hen house shit? Now when the vote... the Chief just voted - it was 10 to 9. Now I want that television set turned on *right now*!
[Nurse Ratched closes the glass window]
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Nurse Ratched : Your hand is staining my window.
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Psychiatrist : Is there anybody that you have on your staff, that could relate to him? Maybe understand him? Help him out with some of these problems?
Dr. Spivey : The funny thing is that the person that he's the closest to is the one he dislikes the most.
Psychiatrist : Well, sure.
Dr. Spivey : [to Nurse Ratched] That's you, Mildred.
Nurse Ratched : Well, gentlemen, in my opinion, if we send him back to Pendleton or we send him up to Disturbed, it's just one more way of passing on our problem to somebody else. You know, we don't like to do that. So I'd like to keep him on the ward. I think we can help him.
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[first lines]
Attendant Warren : Good morning, Miss Ratched.
Nurse Ratched : Good morning.
Attendant Washington : Good morning, Miss Ratched.
Nurse Ratched : Mr. Washington.
Miller : Morning.
Nurse Ratched : Good morning.
Nurse Pilbow : Good morning, Miss Ratched.
Nurse Ratched : Good morning.
Attendant Washington : Morning, Bancini.
Bancini : Morning.
Attendant Washington : How do you feel?
Bancini : Rested.
Nurse Pilbow : Medication time. Medication time.
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Cheswick : Oh my god...
Nurse Ratched : Yes, Mr. Cheswick?
Cheswick : Miss Ratched, I'd like to ask a question please.
Nurse Ratched : Go ahead.
Cheswick : If... if Billy doesn't feel like talking... I mean, why are you pressing him? Why can't we go on to some new business?