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• My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.

  Cole Porter

  Inspiration, Directors, Sole

  1955 Interview, 8 Feb.

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• Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory.

  Joan Rivers

  Chinese, Chins

  "Nicole Arbour Controversy" by James Fell, www.mirror.co.uk.

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• Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.

  Anna Quindlen

  Wedding, Men, Numbers

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.71, Ballantine Books

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• If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be.

  Hilary Mantel

  Party, Sleep, Exercise

  FaceBook post by Hilary Mantel from Nov 03, 2012

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• Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People who become obsessed by the peculiarities of these communications media have simply failed to adjust to the shock of the old. People who bleat on about the 'artistic' potential of television qua television are equally deluded.

  Will Self

  Communication, Media, People

  "Chris the saviour" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 1997.

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• The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Reality, Together, Auditory

  "This is your future" by Ray Kurzweil, www.cnn.com. December 26, 2013.

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• The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Technology, Phones, Years

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• The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

  Virginia Woolf

  Romantic, Cutting, Romance

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.187, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.

  Bob Woodward

  Fear, Night, Phones

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• The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  People, Generations, Gadgets

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• Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.

  Bradley Whitford

  Tennis, Minutes, Masters

  Interview with ESPN, www.espn.com.

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• But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.

  Tom Waits

  Guy, Jukebox, Might

  "Tom Waits: 'I look like hell but I'm going to see where it gets me" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2011.

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• I stay away from the telephone if at all possible.

  Lee Trevino

  Ifs

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• Despite our ever-connective technology, neither Skype nor Facebook - not even a telephone call - can come close to the joy of being with loved ones in person.

  Marlo Thomas

  Technology, Joy, Skype

  "A Christmas Story" by Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2013.

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• Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?

  David Hockney

  Drawing

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• The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.

  Steve Jobs

  Communication, Home, Compelling Reason

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he can't leave Madras as some shooting has to be done, so he directs by telephone. The shooting takes place. On schedule.

  Satyajit Ray

  Directors, Three, Done

  Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.100, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Mirrors, Hair, Trying

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• The relative importance of the white and gray matter is often misunderstood. Were it not for the manifold connection of the nerve cells in the cortex by the tens of millions of fibres which make up the under-estimated white matter, such a brain would be useless as a telephone or telegraph station with all the interconnecting wires destroyed.

  Edward Anthony Spitzka

  Science, Cells, Gray Matter

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• My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine it taking two men to write one song. ... Good authors, too, who once knew better words now use only four-letter words writing prose. ... Brush up your Shakespeare and they'll all kowtow.

  Cole Porter

  Song, Inspiration, Writing

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• I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill.

  Ivanka Trump

  Mother, Money, School

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• Sand camouflage army men
  CCF sponsorin, world conquerin, telephone monitorin
  Louis Vuitton modelin, pornographic actress honorin
  String theory ponderin, bullimic vomitin
  Catholic priest fondlin, pre-emptive bombin and Osama and no bombin them
  They breakin in my car again, deforestation and overloggin and
  Hennessy and Hypnotic swallowin, hydroponic coughin and
  All the world's ills, sittin on chrome 24-inch wheels, like that

  Lupe Fiasco

  Army, Men, Car

  Song: Hurts Me Soul

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• I believe that the telephone and telegraph and other such conveniences were permitted by the Lord to be developed for the express purpose of building the kingdom. Others may use them for business, professional or other purposes, but basically they are to build the kingdom.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Believe, Technology, Purpose

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• To feel is to communicate with your Spirit-with God. Feeling is God's mirror; intuition is God's telephone. To seek your truth is to deepen your connection to Spirit.

  Kenny Loggins

  Spiritual, Mirrors, Feelings

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• Be grateful for what you do have, and you will find it increases. I like to bless with love all that is in my life right now-my home, the heat, water, light, telephone, furniture, plumbing, appliances, clothing, transportation, jobs-the money I do have, friends, my ability to see and feel and taste and touch and walk and to enjoy this incredible planet.

  Louise Hay

  Spiritual, Jobs, Grateful

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