Word: uh
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...felt like calling out, “Hey Mister Robber Dude, did it ever occur to you that maybe I needed my naiveté? Well, uh, I did!” Look: bad things happen to good people, right? Ever since God placed bets on Job, we’ve all accepted that. Or at least we do on an intellectual level. But to survive in the real world from day to day, we also have to suppress our cynicism. In every adult, one of the most tenacious stowaways from childhood is a fierce belief that life should be fair...
...senior Disney executives. "It has actually happened a number of times," Depp says. "At the end of the first take on the first day they say 'Cut,' and then ... silence. I mean silence that's deafening. And you're constantly waiting for the knock on the door--'Uh, Johnny? It's not gonna work, man.' But what are you going to do? It's only a movie...
...early days as an actor. It is easy to forget that he was the Ashton Kutcher of his era, the hot young star of a mediocre show on Fox. "I wouldn't say [21 Jump Street] was misery because it was a privileged opportunity. But it was very, uh ... uncomfortable," says Depp. So desperate was he to get out of playing Officer Tom Hanson, a dreamy high school narc, that Depp says he made like M*A*S*H's Corporal Klinger, dressing up in odd clothes and speaking in tongues on the set in hopes of getting...
...faux listener. People who are just waiting to speak tip their hands by saying things like "uh-huh, uh-huh" in rapid fire...
...doesn't let that stop her from being wooed by the dorky but charming Chelsea. Nor does David resist sleeping with Paprika, one of his housemates. Their post-coital repartee sums up the attitude of everyone in the book, a peculiar mix of promiscuity and devotion. Chelsea: "So, uh, you're not like really in love with me or anything are you? because I think I'm really in love with someone else." Paprika: "You think I give a shit...