His nickname, he said, originated with a radio personality whose show he used to call in to when he would make his runs to the airport at 3 30 A.M. "Once, I was sent an illegal shipment of caviar — the guys that got it got it illegally — and I said, 'Hey, I've got seven cars around me with blue markings and their lights on.' It was the F.D.A.
Local militias like his, Mr Nasrallah reckons, helped to halt a wave of car bombings in Beirut last winter that he claims originated with those residing in towns in his area.
But here, too, the business changed — IFC wasn't releasing smaller movies anymore — and, at this point, Swanberg accepted the offer of a Hollywood-based agent who believed (rightly, as it turned out) that money could be raised for Swanberg to work on a larger scale, with well-known actors but on projects that he originated and made with his own improvisational methods.
Screenwriter David Sherwin – he originated the project with another writer, John Howlett, who subsequently backed out – went to Tonbridge School; Anderson himself was a pupil at Cheltenham College, where If … was largely filmed.
He originated the show with his then partner Valri Bromfield.
I suspect that many of the lessons he taught me originated with her.
And he maintained that it had originated with insurance companies, which, he said, stand to benefit.
He said the idea originated with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and was being studied.
Irvin said he believed the move originated with Doug Harvey, a Canadiens blue-line standout of the 1950s.
Other than that, most price increases, he says, originate with suppliers.
