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...title is Hitchcock’s most oft-quoted quip, uttered in response to actors doubting their motivation or studio executives who don’t see the point of a particular scene. The “light touch” of the words is meant to give some perspective. Hitchcock notes in the book’s prologue that the only person on whom the technique did not work was himself...
Some may doubt the sincerity of my arguments, thinking I am simply a hedonist motivated only by the taste of the Big Mac. But I think that the Big Mac is a useful example here, when we think of the oft-heard geo-political quip that no two countries with a McDonalds have ever gone to war. The Golden Arches have replaced the circled, upside-down Y with a line in the middle as the symbol of peace. Once the electricity is running in Baghdad, I think someone should open a Mickey-Dees...
...more different from the distinctly undynamic Davis, who ended up a hostage of Sacramento's lawmakers and lobbyists and who certainly couldn't lift the Governor's conference table. In his first year in office, Schwarzenegger has proved to be a rousing political one-man show. In a quip that partly mocked his old Saturday Night Live caricature, he branded Democratic legislators who were blocking his budget as "girlie men." Just last week he trash-talked a group of nurses protesting his decision to delay a planned increase in nurse hirings, saying they were among the special interests...
...luck. So I resorted to the quip that had dispatched the previous malcontent...
Gonzales starred as a shortstop on a recreational softball team—and his lateral agility sparked classmates at his 20th Law School reunion to quip that “Al could go to his left better than anybody we ever saw, but apparently he hasn’t done it since...