"Now I'm starting to jog. But every time I do jog I have 9-1 pressed into my phone, with the next '1' ready to be launched in case I drop."
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"Flying is my favorite time in the world. When I'm sitting in a plane, it's amazing because it's quiet and there's no cell phones and no one to talk to you. It's my favorite time. I read all my scripts. I catch up on my movies. I sleep. It's the best. There's no one telling you, "Time to go!""
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"Now we have hands-free phones, so you can focus on the thing you're really supposed to be doing. Chances are, if you need both of your hands to do something, your brain should be in on it too."
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"For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about slippery places, slippery people and slippery things, you know, I need to - I needed to take my cell phone and eliminate all the phone numbers, change the phone numbers so no one I knew before could call me or reach me."
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"I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read."
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"There are 7 billion people in the world, and 5.1 billion of them have a cell phone, and 4 billion have a toothbrush."
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"All the best bits of a film happen when I'm looking down at my phone. Life, is similar."
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"Make the decision that you'll no longer use excuses to keep you from what you know is in your best interest. Today, act on something you've always avoided and explained away with a convenient excuse. Make a phone call you've been putting off, write a letter to a friend, put on a pair of walking shoes and go for a stroll, clean out your closet—do something you've been justifying not doing with excuses."
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"Smart phones are re-inventing the connections between companies and their customers."
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"I developed several comedy phone calls."
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"The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can."
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"I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris."
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"The Internet is an élite organization; most of the population of the world has never even made a phone call."
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"There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done."
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"Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool."
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"A few years ago I lost one of my dearest friends. He died at age 53 - heart attack. David is gone, but he was one of my very special friends. I used to say of David that if I was stuck in a foreign jail somewhere accused unduly and if they would allow me one phone call, I would call David. Why? He would come and get me. That's a friend. Somebody who would come and get you."
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"Distraction and procrastination come in a variety of flavors... when I'm distracted and I walk over and stare out the window, it's a very different experience than when I feed the distraction by cramming in a few emails or make a phone call."
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"Don't just play with your phone: go out and produce something."
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"I have to have an emergency phone number in case anything happens"
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"I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box."
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