Carolyne Burgess: Deirdre Boyle

Quotes 

• Deirdre Boyle : People will support anything until it requires them to get off their asses.

• Deirdre Boyle : What they don't realize is how many people are going to be forced to work at S-Mart for shitty pay, and no hope for improvement. I mean, these service jobs that we have, we're the new working class, people don't work in factories or mills anymore, it's the people behind registers or stocking shelves. Only with all these huge chains moving in everywhere, there's no chance for unionization, no hope for better wages. And if these companies take over all over the country, we're gonna have an entire class of people working, but still below the poverty line.

• Jenkins : You don't think we're gonna win this, do you?

  Deirdre Boyle : We could. All the guys in the 60s who made changes, civil rights, women's rights, stopped the draft, they were guys our age, and they stood up for what they believed in. All we have to do is realize that it's really, truly up to us. We have to be the ones to make them leave our town alone.

• Deirdre Boyle : Someone once said that sometimes it takes our best friends to tell us when we're screwing up, no matter how much we may not like it.

  Jenkins : [Skeptically]  Who said that?

  Deirdre Boyle : [Bracing herself]  Michael Moore on the French.

  Madore : I hate that guy.

  Pat : Everyone does.

• Jenkins : So, uh, you hear about those guys who've been screwing with the S-Mart? Really taking the town's interests into their own hands.

  Deirdre Boyle : Yeah but they're not accomplishing anything. All they're doing is stupid stuff that's not going to do anything to halt construction. It's... childish.

  Jenkins : Uh, yeah. Idiots.

• Deirdre Boyle : Matt, I'm going back to college soon, I have a lot of things to take care of. What did you expect of me?

  [guiltily looks at a gobsmacked Jenkins] 

  Deirdre Boyle : I gotta go. We're heading to see a movie, and we're gonna miss the previews at this rate.

  Jenkins : What about fighting for Ellington? The Supermarket? Making a difference? Don't you want to...

  Deirdre Boyle : Matt... Did you really think we were gonna win?