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When General Motors has to go to the bathroom ten times a day, the whole country's ready to let go. You heard of that market crash in '29? I predicted that.... I was nursing a director of General Motors. Kidney ailment, they said; nerves, I said. Then I asked myself, "What's General Motors got to be nervous about?" "Overproduction," I says. "Collapse."

John Michael Hayes

John Michael Hayes (b. 1919), U.S. screenwriter, and Alfred Hitchcock. Stella (Thelma Ritter), Rear Window (1954).

Based on the short story by Cornell Woolrich.

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