Te Ata (2016)

Graham Greene: Douglas Johnston

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• Senator Judd : Let your people pull themselves up by their bootstraps and join the future, like the rest of us have.

  Douglas Johnston : I assure you, sir, my people do not need lessons in hard work, grit or making a living off the land.

• Douglas Johnston : When you were just a little girl, your Uncle Doug went to Washington when they tried to get rid of us... and now you will return and show them that we are alive and well and that the Chickasaw are unconquered and unconquerable.

• Douglas Johnston : Now I been meaning to ask, what do you think about Treasurer?

  T.B. Thompson : But I don't know anything about politics.

  Douglas Johnston : Exactly! An honest man.

• Bertie Thompson : Mary Francis! Don't be bothering the Governor!

  Douglas Johnston : Oh, it's alright.

  Young Te Ata : Uncle Doug, can't you pass a law so I can come tonight?

  Douglas Johnston : Hard to say no to such a charming constituent.