Samantha Mathis: Dagny Taggart
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Dagny Taggart : What happened at Twentieth Century Motor Company?
Jeff Allen : Who is John Galt?
Dagny Taggart : I wish I knew who started that expression.
Jeff Allen : That, that might've been me.
Dagny Taggart : What?
Jeff Allen : Well, me, or somebody else who worked at the plant back in Starnesville, Wisconsin. He used to work there.
Dagny Taggart : What happened there?
Jeff Allen : Well, Mr. Starnes passed and his heirs took over. They wasn't worth a lick. They had this big plan about how they were gonna run the place, and we were all gonna belong to each other, like a big family. And the idea was that everybody would work to best of his ability, but be paid according to his needs. That's when John Galt stood up and said he'd have no part of it.
Dagny Taggart : How would they know whose needs came first?
Jeff Allen : Now that is the rub, isn't it? Yeah. It fell apart pretty quick. The best workers had to work harder and the needy got needier. Worker turned against worker.
Dagny Taggart : What happened to John Galt?
Jeff Allen : You know, nobody knew too much about him, really. I just remember...
[removes spectacles and rubs right eye]
Jeff Allen : when he walked out he swore that he was gonna... he was gonna put an end to the whole thing once and for all. I will stop the motor of the world. I mean, what kind of thing is that to say, really, but...? I'll tell you something, ever since that day, every time I saw the lights go out and some factory close...... I thought about that man. I thought, maybe that's him... doing what he said... stopping the motor of the world.
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[first lines]
Dagny Taggart : [while losing control of her airplane] Who is John Galt? Who is John Galt?
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Dr. Robert Stadler : [reading] A device that draws static electricity from the atmosphere, and converts it to usable power, harvesting limitless energy without fossil fuels.
Dr. Robert Stadler : We wouldn't need centralized power. It would end the global depression in a year. Maybe less. Imagine, Miss Taggart!
Dagny Taggart : I do, every day.
