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Wednesday, November 25, 2009
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What they said - Oscar Night Quotes
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The annual Oscar Awards ceremony in many ways represents the highpoint in the entertainment calendar not only in Hollywood but all over the world. From the red carpet to the after-awards function, from curtain raisers to fashion faux pas, the media just cannot get enough. This entire roller-coaster ride is interspersed with comments and quotes that seem to catch the essence of this microcosmic world within a tinsel wrap. Funny, ironical, sarcastic, emotional to outright outrageous – here is a list of few Oscar sayings that seem to have been remembered after the show. It has no particular order as such, just a compilation. Remember the magic.
§ "Has anybody ever fainted here? Because I might be the first one." – Penelope Cruz, breathlessly accepting her first Oscar, for Best Supporting Actress.
§ "Say whatever is on your mind because you know we have a seven-second delay. But if you win, we switch to a 20-minute delay." – Host Hugh Jackman, to Best Actor nominee Mickey Rourke – who's been known to drop the F-bomb in acceptance speeches.
§ “She's beautiful, and I love her, and she can like, adopt me if she wants to.
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Richard Branson : Anecdotes
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Old Boys Network
"Bill Gates invited me to talk to thirty or forty chief executives from around the world," Virgin Records founder Richard Branson once recalled. "Just before I got up on stage, forms were handed out to everybody, and Gates said, 'It's very important that all of us are tested in our lives. Richard's about to speak and I'd like you all to mark him out of 10.'
"Now, that intimidated me. I thought, 'F---, I thought I'd gotten out of school thirty-five years ago.'" Naturally, Branson found a solution. "I turned to the guy on my right — I think he was the head of Amazon [Jeff Bezos] — and said, 'I'll give you a 10 if you give me a 10!'"
Branding
Virgin CEO Richard Branson: "Branding is important. If you get your face and your name out there enough, people will start to recognise you. Many people know the Virgin brand better than the names of the individual companies within the group.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Anecdotes
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A 'Loud' Reader
Many passengers aboard a flight from New York to London one day were surprised to see Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Many of those were surprised to see the star pull out a stack of magazines.
And many more were surprised to hear the star - reading them out loud!
President Schwarzenegger ?
Arnold Schwarzenegger biographer George Butler once recalled a conversation he had in a taxi with the actress Candice Bergen after a wildly successful 1976 bodybuilding show (entitled "Articulate Muscle: The Body as Art") at the Whitney Museum. Bergen insisted that bodybuilding, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, had peaked. "I disagree," Butler replied. "It's here to stay, and Arnold is going to be the Governor of California one day." Whereupon Bergen, hooting with laughter, sarcastically retorted: "And one day Ronald Reagan will be President!"
Arnold Schwarzenegger: A Man of the People
In October 2002, Arnold Schwarzenegger returned the Ferrari Spider which he had recently purchased, explaining that it did not fit his new image.
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