Margin Call (2011)
Demi Moore: Sarah Robertson
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Quotes
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Sarah Robertson : What's your background?
Peter Sullivan : My background?
Sarah Robertson : Your CV.
Peter Sullivan : I've been with the firm for two and a half years working with Eric that whole time, but I hold a doctorate in engineering, speciality in propulsion, from MIT, with a Bachelor's from Penn.
Jared Cohen : What is a 'specialty in propulsion,' exactly?
Peter Sullivan : My thesis was a study in the ways that friction ratios affect steering outcomes in aeronautical use under reduced gravity loads.
Jared Cohen : So, you're a rocket scientist.
Peter Sullivan : I was, yeah.
Jared Cohen : Interesting. How did you end up here?
Peter Sullivan : Well, it's all just numbers really. Just changing what you're adding up. And, to speak freely, the money here is considerably more attractive.
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Sarah Robertson : I didn't think they were going to be able to get you back here.
Eric Dale : Well, they told me they were going to drag me through hell on everything for the next two years - my options, my healthcare. Or I could come back here and make, uh, 176,471 dollars an hour to sit quietly in this room. Didn't seem like much of a choice.
Sarah Robertson : It never is.
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Sarah Robertson : We were wrong.
Jared Cohen : You mean *you* were wrong.
Sam Rogers : I'm heading for the conference room.
Jared Cohen : I want you to hear this.
Sam Rogers : I don't want to hear this. How do you think I've stuck around this place so long?
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Sarah Robertson : At the time, it didn't seem like there was much of a choice.
Eric Dale : It never does.