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The budget's stretched thin, as it is.

3 seconds sound clip from the The Shawshank Redemption movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:55:36 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Right.

- How do you expect to do that? I mean, get new books in here, Mr. Dufresne, if you please.

- Ask the Warden for funds.

- Son, son, son, son. Six wardens have been through here in my tenure, and I've learned one immutable, universal truth.

- Not one of them born whose asshole wouldn't pucker up tighter than a snare drum when you asked them for funds.

- The budget's stretched thin, as it is.

- I see.

- Perhaps I could write to the State Senate and request funds directly from them.

- As far as I concern there's only three ways to spend the taxpayers' hard-earned when it comes for prisons: more walls, more bars and more guards.

- I'd like to try, with your permission. I'll write a letter a week. They can't ignore me forever.

- Sure can.

[...]

The Shawshank Redemption Sound Clip

The Shawshank Redemption Blu-Ray cover

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Actors: Tim Robbins (Andy Dufresne), Morgan Freeman (Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding), Bob Gunton (Warden Samuel Norton), Clancy Brown (Captain Byron Hadley), James Whitmore (Brooks Hatlen), William Sadler (Heywood)

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