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[ Wallace ]
Did I get you up?
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No, I usually sit around
my hotel room dressed like this
at 5:30 in the morning,
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sleepy look on my face.
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How many shows have
we done? Huh?
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- Come on. How many?
- Oh, lots.
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That's right.
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But in all that time,
Mike,
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did you ever get off a plane,
walk into a room...
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and find that a source
for a story changed his mind?
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Lost his heart?
Walked out on us?
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Not one fucking time.
You wanna know why?
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I see a rhetorical question
on the horizon.
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I'm gonna tell you why.
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Because when I tell someone
I'm gonna do something, I deliver.
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Oh, how fortunate I am to have
Lowell Bergman's moral tutelage...
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- to point me down the shining
path, to show me the way.
- Oh, please, Mike.
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- Give me a break.
- You give me a break.
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I never left a source
hung out to dry ewer.
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Abandoned.
Not till right fucking now.
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When I came on this job,
I came with my word intact.
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I'm gonna leave with my word intact.
Fuck the rules of the game!
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Hell, you're supposed
to know me, Mike.
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What the hell
did you expect?
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You expect me to lie down?
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Back off?
Or get over it?
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In the real world, when you get to where
I am, there are other considerations.
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Like what?
Corporate responsibility?
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- What, are we talking celebrity here?
- I'm not--
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I'm not talking about
celebrity, vanity, CBS. I'm--
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I'm--
I'm talking about...
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when you're nearer the end
of your life than the beginning.
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And what do you think
you think about then? The future?
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"ln the future, I'm gonna
do this, become that"?
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What future? No.