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...were almost a little more conservative off the start, because we didn’t want to waste our energy. But it turns out maybe it would have been better to do what we had in the heat and just get out early and hang on by the thread of our teeth...
...basic Phildickian questions: In a world where men and machines coexist, what does it mean to be truly human? And in a future world of wondrous and terrifying possibilities, what, if anything, is real? Can it be that, as Ghost 2 suggests, "humans are nothing but the thread from which the dream of life is woven...
...songs that have been the most successful have tended to have a‘quirky’ element to them: ‘If you want to destroy my sweater / Hold this thread as I walk away,’” he wrote. Needless to say, Cuomo was accepted. More needless, he declined offers for an interview and a long walk on the beach...
...HAVE AN EMMY JOKE YOU'D LIKE TO TRY OUT? Let me think. Well, I'm shocked that at this stage of TV, they're having a professional host the Emmys. A real person should be hosting it. I guess we're hanging on by a thread. Because I'm not a real person. I'm a professional. I'm pretty honored...
...fond of an early one accusing her of "making misery tedious." Hannah Luckraft's misery is making her drink herself to death: Paradise opens in hell, in the kind of hangover that is most quickly cured by getting drunk again. Her career - "something in cardboard" - is hanging by a thread, her grasp on reality starting to slip. Her loving family, in particular her brother Simon, can only watch her self-destruction in horror. Kennedy plumbs the mind-crushing depths of alcoholism and the painful bends of drying out, but allows the blessings Hannah finds in the company of fellow drunks...