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Andy Dufresne speaks this line in The Shawshank Redemption (1994) as he paints a specific picture of the life he hopes to reach after prison: a little hotel on the beach, an old boat fixed up, and taking guests out on charter fishing trips. He says it during conversations with Red, listing concrete details that make the plan easy to picture. The domestic specificity—hotel, boat, charter fishing—turns a vague dream into an instantly memorable image in the scene.