The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie
"wouldn't this be a great world if desperation and security made us more attractive if needy was a turn on"; "I can't believe I risked my life for a network that tests my face with focus groups"; "What do you do when your real life exceeds your dreams?" "Keep it to yourself"; "I buried the lead"; "I've never fought for anyone before"; "Does anyone win these things?"; "Congratulations on history's longest winning streak"; "if you ever get restless in Portland, let me know"; "Except for socially, you're my role model"; "you can make it less brutal by knocking a million or so off your salary"
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- The list runs through the great world of desperation and security making us more attractive, risking a life for a network that tests faces with focus groups, what you do when real life exceeds your dreams and the answer to keep it to yourself, 'I buried the lead', 'I've never fought for anyone before', 'does anyone win these things', and 'congratulations on history's longest winning streak', which one host calls his favorite of all of them.
- 'If you ever get restless in Portland, let me know' is a dig that also congratulates; Cusack's 'except for socially, you're my role model' and the line about making it less brutal by knocking a million off your salary, followed by 'bad joke, I'm sorry', round out the list.
- The Cusack line was first played as a clip during what aged best.