"But, how does anyone compose music, though?" -Mary (Lindsay Mendez), Merrily We Roll Along, 2025.
"Well, writing music is not about words. It's about sounds and feelings." -Frank (Jonathan Groff), Merrily We Roll Along, 2025.
#MovieLines
My subjects are newsmakers: Actors who have starred in Academy Award-winning movies, Olympic gold medalists, book authors, runway fashion models, titans of business, U.S. Surgeon General, and two astronauts. I am an active member of the Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS).
"But, how does anyone compose music, though?" -Mary (Lindsay Mendez), Merrily We Roll Along, 2025.
"Well, writing music is not about words. It's about sounds and feelings." -Frank (Jonathan Groff), Merrily We Roll Along, 2025.
#MovieLines
"Why is she eating with her left hand?" -Grandfather (Akio Chen), Left-Handed Girl, 2025.
"I thought the Devil Hand could help. I wanted to get money to help Mom. This is my Devil Hand (holding up left hand), I am not the one who stole things. It was my Devil Hand that stole everything! Not me." -I-Jing (Nina Ye), five years old, Left-Handed Girl, 2025.
"Quit using the devil's hand." -Grandfather (Akio Chen), Left-Handed Girl, 2025.
#movielines
"I thought that I would be safe here. Just stay in Paradise (California), stay with him, follow the rules, and nothing bad could truly happen. But, that's not the way to live life - hiding away." -Mary (America Ferrera), The Lost Bus, 2025.
"I was too late as a son, and I'm too late as a father." -Kevin (Matthew McConaughey), The Lost Bus, 2025.
#movielines
"Noa fights every day... They have integrity and that's the stuff that real leaders are made of." -Jimmy (Adam Saunders), Re-Election, 2025.
"What are we supposed to do, just refuse to be honest about who we are? Roll over, and let the trolls win?" -Noa (Bex Taylor-Klaus), Re-Election, 2025.
"Before you, I honestly believed that the good guys could actually win." -Noa (Bex Taylor-Klaus), Re-Election, 2025.
"But, isn't that what being an educator is all about? Fighting to give the least-likely students a chance to be successful? Not just looking out for the obvious winners, but fighting for the potential in everybody?" -Jimmy (Adam Saunders), Re-Election, 2025.
"It's not how we start our journey that matters; it's how we finish it." -Noa (Bex Taylor-Klaus), Re-Election, 2025.
"One of his earliest memories was that of observing the mass deportation of a hundred or more Chinese families from town. Grainier was baffled by the casualness of the violence." -Narrator (Will Patton), Train Dreams, 2025.
"Do you think that the bad things we do follow us through life?" -Arn Peeples (William H. Macy), Train Dreams, 2025.
"This world is intricately stitched together, boys. Every thread we pull, we know not how it affects the design of things. We are but children on this earth..." -Arn Peeples (William H. Macy), Train Dreams, 2025.
"My family is everywhere there is a smiling face. Never been somewhere I didn't have some family there. Except for Kansas; that state is a collection of savage lunatics." -Arn Peeples (William H. Macy), Train Dreams, 2025.
#MovieLines
"You know how people say, 'Just be yourself?' Like, what version of me? I hate most of them. But, the version of me that was just hanging out with you,...I wanted to be him all the time." -Dennis (James Sweeney), Twinless, 2025.
"I was a we - now, I'm an I." Roman (Dylan O'Brien), Twinless, 2025.
#MovieLines
"I've read that almost all people who attempt suicide and survive, regret having tried...by jumpers who say as soon as they hit the air, they knew they didn't really want to die. I wonder about you, and about how you felt. The thought keeps me up at night." Iris (Naomi Watts), thinking about her best friend and mentor, Walter (Bill Murray), The Friend.
"How can you explain death to a dog?" Barbara (Noma Dumezweni), to Iris (Naomi Watts).
"You were his (Walter's) best friend." Barbara (Noma Dumezweni) to Iris (Naomi Watts).
#MovieLines
Laura (Imogen Poots), to best-friend Simon (Brett Goldstein), All of You (2025):
"I also found this box of letters, and they were between him (her father) and this woman who he must have been with before I was born. There's hundreds of them, and they're all her telling him about her day and how much she misses him...and not a day goes by in her life where she doesn't...he wasn't seeing her, he was just writing to her, and he kept them; every single one.
And, there's so much love in those letters. I never saw that with him and my mum. Really broke my heart. Why didn't he just go to her?
Simon, to Laura: Because he was with your mum? Because he had you. Because he was a decent man? Because that's how life is, isn't it?"
Later, Laura, to Simon: "We hurt people, and they don't even know we're doing it to them."
Simon, to Laura: "I'll miss you. Every single day."
#MovieLines
"Édouard Manet. 1875. He used to sit in cafes and try to paint people, but never finished anything because they would get up. And then one day, he saw a reflection of himself, and he painted it. He says that in that moment he realized that he could be an artist, because he couldn't recognize himself; the painting showed him who he truly was." -Steve (Taylor Gray) to Sara (Alexandra Templer), Any Day Now, 2025.
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"An eye for an eye. It's the oldest legal system in the world: Mesopotamia." -Russ (Simon Webster), boy, Splitsville, 2025.
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"I was just never good at school...or behaving. But I was good at certain things that were really valuable to the military.
But after my discharge, I didn't know where I fit, or what to do, or how to give my kids the things that other kids had. So, I made some bad choices." -Jeffrey (Channing Tatum), Roofman, 2025.
"Everybody forgets you eventually, except the people who really love you." Jeffrey (Channing Tatum).
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"Did you ever think of your entire life as a play? And, that 99% of the people in it, they got no lines, you know, just like extras, and you, you're just an extra in their play." -Eddie (Bobby Cannavale), Sardi's bartender, Blue Moon, 2025.
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#movielines
Lorenzo, co-starring as Deputy District Chief Markinson, on Chicago Fire (NBC, "Post Mortem", Season 13, Episode 18).
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#stageactor #televisionactor #lorenzothughes
These warning tags are ubiquitous:
"By law, a warning must be given for listed chemicals unless the exposure is low enough to pose no significant risk of cancer or is significantly below levels observed to cause birth defects or other reproductive harm." - Official website of the State of California
Simply expressed, a product having a Proposition 65 warning tag signifies exposure to potentially-harmful chemicals is high enough to pose a significant risk of cancer, and meets or significantly exceeds levels of chemicals observed to cause birth defects or other reproductive harm.
The number of "listed chemicals" now exceeds 900, and is updated yearly.
www.proposition65warnings.ca.gov
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Walter Coppage guest-starred on Law & Order (NBC, Season 25, Episode 3).
You are a powerful force.
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A person with a .038% Blood Alcohol Concentration would feel light-headed, relaxed, have a sense of warmth, experience an altered mood ("high"), and posses a minor impairment of judgement.
A Blood Alcohol Concentration of .08% and greater is illegal.
Leawood, Kansas, Police Department.
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Evan, mixing, balancing, and troubleshooting prior to a performance of The Suburbans.
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Are you considering a move to Canada?
The National Ballet of Canada is looking for a Communications Coordinator.
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Released today, new music from Lester Estelle: LJ's Song, and Let's Ride.
Download from Apple Music and Spotify.
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#lesterestellesr #musician #guitarist
If you miss seeing vocalist Cham Newhouse, formerly with the band Atlantic Express, you may find him performing with great acclaim as a member of The Suburbans.
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Lukas, performing with The Joshua Tree - U2 Tribute.
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#guitarist #bassguitar
Vocalist Shenon Bone (#WomenYouShouldKnow), and Keith Sauro, vocalist/bass guitar, The Suburbans.
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Sara, performing a Lady Gaga tribute show.
Material Girl and the Fame Monster.
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#material_girl_live #singer #vocalist
Jesse, performing with Smokin' J's.
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David Marshall: Drums, lead guitar, bass, vocals.
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A song of hope, Until It's Over was released at midnight.
It's new, original, music from Scotty Eggleson, Scotty Eggleson Music.
Listen: "Until It's Over", Scotty Eggleson
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#scottyeggman #musician #vocalist #drummer #guitarist
Jesse, performing with Smokin' J's.
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Smokin' J's perform as a fabulous duo with vocalist Justin Sedlock, pictured, and guitarist/vocalist Jesse Alexander Rodriguez. They also have a five-piece band.
You can enjoy them at The Phoenix every second Friday of the month.
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#smokinjskc #jasonsedlock #jessealexanderrodriguez #musician
Bright lights, agonizing headache, and very restricted movement.
It's not worth it.
Leawood, Kansas, Police Department.
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Jacob Buss, drummer, The Joshua Tree - U2 Tribute.
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Lines I found notable from the movie, "How to Train Your Dragon" (Dreamworks 2025):
Medieval Vikings and dragons have been bitter enemies for centuries. Dragons steal livestock and endanger people in the village, prompting Vikings to aggressively attack them: "...killing a dragon is everything around here."
Hiccup (Mason Thames), insightful teenage son of Stoick, the Chieftan (Gerard Butler): "They're not what we think they are. We don't have to kill them. They defend themselves, that's all."
Hiccup, hypothesizing dragons may simply be trying to survive as Vikings take land and resources: "I'm just saying, maybe we're part of the problem."
Hiccup: "I wouldn't kill him (a dragon) because he looked just as frightened as I did."
Astrid (Nico Parker), teenage warrior, to Hiccup, on being insightful: "You have something I don't; something none of us have."
Leawood, Kansas, Police Department.
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Lines I found notable from the movie, "Hello Beautiful" (2025):
Willow (Tricia Helfer), a successful, vivacious model facing a devastating life event: "It was a warm day in December when I decided to kill myself."
Kahlil, Willow's husband (Tarek Bishara): "I wish that you could see yourself through my eyes."
Willow: ...that I should just end it, give up, so everyone around me doesn't suffer so much."
Willow: "More drastic steps? I am already on a roller coaster in hell. There's something worse?"
Kahlil: "You are fighting for our kids; you are fighting for us."
Maryam, Willow's mother-in-law (Susan Shaloub Larkin): "I should be apologizing to you, for not seeing who you really are. Your courage and determination astound me."
The last spoken words in the movie are from Kahlil: "Hello, beautiful."
"A Taste of Leawood" was a rousing success.
Thank you to the participating restaurants who made it a first-class event.
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A Blood Alcohol Content of .08% is the "per se" limit; it is automatically illegal to drive at or above this level of intoxication, regardless of observed impairment.
Driving at or above this level is a criminal offense and can result in arrest, vehicle impoundment, license suspension, and potentially jail time and fines.
Thank you Leawood, Kansas, police, for keeping us safe.
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Pictured is guitarist and vocalist, Lukas Hugunin.
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#lukashuguninofficial #the_sounds_of_many #newmusic
These lovelies were onstage, anticipating the guitar technician.
Thunder Road: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen.
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#thunderroadband #musicalinstruments
Houston, performing with Thunder Road: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen.
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#thunderroadband #musician
Rocco, performing with Thunder Road: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen.
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Nate, performing with Thunder Road: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen.
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#asteralesmusic #thunderroadband #musician
Austin, performing with Thunder Road: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen.
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#quicknbiggs #thunderroadband #musician
Chris, performing with Thunder Road: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen.
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#christhompson_kcbass #thunderroadband #musician
Sam, performing with Thunder Road: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen.
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#grebnenorcmas #thunderroadband #musician
John, performing with Thunder Road: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen.
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