Quote
"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."
Margaret Mead
Joke
This graveyard looks overcrowded. People must be dying to get in.
Fun Fact
A chef's toque contains 100 folds.
Most diners are too busy looking at their food to look all that closely at what the preparer is wearing, but the toque—the traditional hat worn by chefs—actually contains exactly 100 folds. This is not just a nice, round number: it is said that these folds represent the number of ways to cook an egg, though an investigation by Bon Appetit failed to track down where that saying originated. Need more distractions?
Reading Fact
Reading is motivational
History Fact
Roman Emperor Gaius made his beloved horse a senator.
Movie/TV Trivia
The set of All The President’s Men cost $450,000 to create
Producers working on All The President’s Men (1976) certainly didn’t skimp when it came to their set design budget. They ended up spending a whopping $450,000 in order to try and create an exact replica of The Washington Post‘s offices, getting the detail down right to the trash in each employee’s waste paper basket!
Talk about obsessive. That attention to detail definitely came at a price, and in today’s money, their budget would have come in at over $2 million.
As well as looking after the set design, producers also had to stroke the egos of their two leading actors. In order to ensure that both Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman would each receive equal billing during publicity for the movie, Redford’s name appeared above Hoffman’s on posters and trailers, whilst Hoffman’s appeared at the top in the film itself.
This strategy had been used in the past, during publicity for The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) which starred Hollywood legends John Wayne and James Stewart.
Movie/TV Quote
“Here's Johnny!”
The Shining, 1980
Conversation Starter
If you had a personal mascot, what would your mascot be?
Writing Prompt
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