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"As a performer, you can't just sit around waiting for the phone to ring. You have to write and develop projects for yourself, because casting people aren't always going to see you the way you want to be seen. Write a one-person show, shoot a short film, do plays, whatever - activity breeds activity. No one's interested in a stay-at-home actress."
"Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone."
"The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers."
"Someday I'll be remembered for The phone calls I never made Letters I never mailed And the stories I never finished telling anyone."
"I think I've been fortunate to be at the top of the game and in the media for years, and a lot of times, people want to be your friend when you're on the top. You know, there have been times when I've been injured and I never got a phone call. So that's the way it is."
"People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me."
"I'm not even going to be able to remember the boy who broke up with me over the phone in 25 seconds when I was 18."
"(Talk about Kelly Pickler)"She's like a sister.People say we're such opposites, but that's what makes us such good friends. She's incredibly blunt. I love that about her. If some guy has said or done something to me she doesn't like, she'll grab my cell phone and say, 'I'm deleting his number."
"One of the most important things about social media is knowing when to put the phone down and experience your life."
"That moment when Kanye West secretly records your phone call, then Kim [Kardashian] posts it on the internet."
"What's interesting about Twitter is the unmediatedness of it, the directness of it. I'm on a train somewhere in New York and I send out a tweet. Somebody sitting at dinner in Bombay checks their phone and they see it."
"I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!"
"You can tell a person's religion 85 percent of the time from their phone records."
"I think the vast majority of the American people say you shouldn't be able to collect my phone records if I'm not suspicious, if you don't have probable cause."
"Why don't we see any questions from the press? Why don't we see anybody from the media saying, 'Mr. President, it's illegal, you started it, you are performing a program that is collecting all of the phone records from all Americans, it's been declared illegal from the second highest court in the land, why don't you stop?'"
"My philosophy is that every phone conversation has a loser."
"We already have our phones, but other wearables, and those technologies are going to want to know when you're deciding things and then offer some kind of input subtle or less so on that moment."
"As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the "call of nature" will be answered by a machine."
"She needed help, but God was in a meeting whenever she rang."
"People bring camera phones into comedy shows and clubs and concerts, and sound bites never come out right."
