Author: Paige Kobza (Page 2)
11/8/24
“It’s all happening.” This is a theme in the film Almost Famous that “Penny Lane” emotes but actually says in the movie to explain how she tries to live in…
10/25/24
“Looks like you’ve been missing a lot of work lately.” “Well, I wouldn’t exactly say I’ve been missing it, Bob.” That’s dialogue from Office Space, a movie about people who…
10/11/24
I’ve been called a force of nature, and I know it is not meant as a compliment. But when Nobel prize winner George Bernard Shaw coined the phrase, he was…
10/4/24
“Helene, you’re just plain mean.” This is America, so of course, someone out there spoofed Dolly Parton’s amazing song Jolene just because it rhymes with this terrible storm. What is…
09/20/24
“Everyone’s got an act.” That was Zendaya as Anne Wheeler in The Greatest Showman, a movie about P.T. Barnum’s idea to feature the outcasts of society as entertainment. It may…
09/6/24
“It’s showtime!” Michael Keaton says that in the first Beetlejuice movie which was many things – but mostly proof that Michael Keaton is an incredibly talented and versatile actor. The…
08/16/24
“Someone help me, please!” This isn’t just the cry of health policy consultants. This quote is from the latest sequel movie opening today: Alien: Romulus. One of the reasons why…
08/9/24
“Don’t be too proud of this technological terror you’ve constructed.” Darth Vader says this to Admiral Motti, an unlikeable man that is part of the Empire’s committee to determine how…
08/2/24
“In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night / No Evil Shall Escape My Sight / Let Those Who Worship Evil’s Might / Beware Of My Power, Green Lantern’s Light.” Yes, I…
07/26/24
“Adapt or die.” Yep. So that’s where we are with politics, Olympics training, and health information policymaking. It’s a great, straightforward quote from the movie Moneyball. Brad Pitt says that…