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For me, it is very important to believe in the kind of movies I do. 'Rang De Basanti' made me feel good about Indian cinema. The movie instilled in me a confidence so strong, that I wanted to be a part of the revolution in Bollywood. -- Vir Das
The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power. -- Annie Besant
So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'. -- Frank Carson
I can remember the first face-lift show that came on. I rang up everyone - are you watching? I'm watching. -- Jennifer Saunders
So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.' -- Tommy Cooper
So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.' -- Tommy Cooper
So I rang up my local swimming baths. I said 'Is that the local swimming baths?' He said 'It depends where you're calling from.' -- Tim Vine
I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter. -- Patricia Highsmith
Suddenly a single shot on the extreme left rang out on the clear morning air, followed quickly by several others, and the whole line pushed rapidly forward through the brush. -- John Gibbon
I'd just gotten into Los Angeles from Texas, where I live, and the phone rang and it was the guy calling about the Willie Nelson video. I was totally excited about it. -- Corin Nemec
I think he came to the front door and rang the bell, and Maggie let him in, and he said he had forgotten his key; so I think she must have been down stairs. -- Lizzie Andrew Borden
Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often. -- Henry Rollins
I knew that my niece was working nearby with some bank, so my wife rang up the mother and the mother called back to say that shes just called up to say she was alright. -- Lee Kuan Yew
Coming from a little suburban town, I wasn't a hip city kid. I was quite the opposite, really. Songs like 'Saturday's Kids' rang a bell for kids all over the country. That song was about the kids I grew up with. -- Paul Weller
My mobile rang around lunchtime one day, and it was George Michael. He wanted to come in on Friday. We were like, 'okay, if that's what you want'. And he was a very good guest. That's a real exception to the rule. -- Graham Norton
I don't tweet, Twitter, email, Facebook, look book, no kind of book. I have a land line phone at my home - that's the only phone I have. If my phone rang every day like everyone else around me, I would lose my mind. -- Patti LaBelle
I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch. -- Jose Mourinho
There was only one punch. Tony Blair rang me and he said 'Are you OK?' and I said 'Yes', and he said 'Well, what happened?' and I said 'I was just carrying out your orders. You told us to connect with the electorate, so I did. -- John Prescott
When I was sent the script for 'Homeland,' I didn't think anything of it. Three months later, my manager rang and said: 'They are interested in you.' I read it and I realised, 'Yes, I do want this.' Then I got an email saying I'd got it. -- David Harewood
It was 1953, and I was still at school. I'd borrowed a silent French film from the library for my 9.5mm projector. It was by Jean Epstein, and it was awful. So I rang the library and asked if they had anything else. They said they had 'Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Revolution.' -- Kevin Brownlow
After a pretty amazing year that included more wins than I thought possible, I rang in 2013 by watching the Times Square ball drop on TV... and then heading directly to bed. It might not have been the typical New Year's Eve for a 21-year-old, but what can I say? It was a training night! -- Ashley Wagner
When I voted against the cap-and-trade bill, the phone rang and it was the chief of staff of the president of the United States of America, Rahm Emanuel, and he started swearing at me in terms and words that I hadn't heard since that crossing the line ceremony on the USS New Jersey in 1983. -- Eric Massa
When I see films like 'Lagaan' and 'Rang De Basanti,' I feel, 'Why can't I do work like this?' Then you think and realise you need to learn more to make this kind of a film or write this kind of a film. Also, somewhere down the line, you need to be brave. -- Rohit Shetty
I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and that's how it started. -- Gary Numan
When I saw 'Legally Blonde' on Broadway, I rang my agent and said 'I want to be seen for this,' but the rest weren't big choices, really. 'Hedda Gabler' was a phone call offering it to me, and as I've said before quite embarrassingly, I didn't know the play, so I didn't sit there thinking 'I would now like to tackle Ibsen.' -- Sheridan Smith
I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car. -- Owen Paterson
She needed help, but God was in a meeting whenever she rang. -- Tom Robbins
When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man. -- Donald E. Westlake
When that bell rang, I wanted to go out there and do my thing. -- Gerry Cooney
When God rang the bell that ended the fight, the world cried out for one more round. -- Jesse Jackson
Ash sarcastically rang an invisible bell with his hand. "Ding, ding, ding. Give that boy a tropphy. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Over the field rang his clear voice calling: "?Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world's ending! -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned. -- Thomas Bernhard
Very, very good Pavlov, all your dogs have barked when you rang the bell. Your test was successful. -- Triple H
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You rang my heart like a church bell at midnight. Trembling, I awoke to the sweet sound of love. -- John Mark Green
Guess now who holds thee?'--'Death,' I said. But, there, The silver answer rang, . . . 'Not Death, but Love. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You'd better answer that. It could be someone important. -- Queen Elizabeth II
And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl. -- John Milton
No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes. -- George Eliot
The phone rang. Softly, in actuality, yet it seemed loud and ominous, as phones do at night in dark hotel rooms. -- Jim Thompson
Songs of praise the angels sang, Heav'n with alleluias rang, when creation was begun, when God spoke and it was done. -- James Montgomery
Okay, boys.â? Pestilence's grating voice rang out. â??Kill the human and the mutt, and let's get this Apocalypse started! -- Larissa Ione
I woke up in a barnyard when I heard a farmer shout. Get away, boy, from my daughter, then a shot gun rang out. -- Rod Stewart
A friend of mine rang the box office to collect a ticket I'd reserved for her, and the girl said, 'Who's Lesley Manville?' -- Lesley Manville
Where were you? When everything was falling apart. All my days staying by the telephone. You never rang and all I needed was a call. -- The Fray
Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It resonates with me. -- Sam Neill
I ordered a wake-up call the other day. The phone rang and a woman's voice said, 'What the hell are you doing with your life?' -- Demetri Martin
Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you. -- Bob Dylan
I did actually sit down with a blank sheet of paper once. I think the phone rang and that was the end of my literary career. -- Bill Nighy
My phone rang a long time, so I answered. How long? Eight feet long. My last relationship was half that long. I should be taller in love. -- Jarod Kintz
There is a brotherhood among the kindly- Closer and defter and more integral- Than any of aisle or coven- For love rang out before the chapel bell -- Mervyn Peake
A Polish man had a bandage on each ear. What happened? "I was ironing, and the phone rang!" "What about the other ear?" "Had to call the doctor!" -- Henny Youngman
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I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter -- Patricia Highsmith
They put up this bloke's picture on Crimewatch UK with a phone number and said 'Have you seen this man?' Well my auntie rang them up and said 'No'. -- Jasper Carrott
Richard Burton rang me up once and said, Do you know you're my only leading lady I've never slept with? I said, Well, please don't tell everybody, it's the worst image. -- Julie Andrews
I rang my mother to thank her for giving birth to me and she said, "What choice had I? You were in there, how else were you going to get out? -- Marian Keyes
Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal; Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle? -- James Russell Lowell
Leave me alone, or I will shoot," a woman's husky voice rang out through the broken windowI'm not too afraid to blow your ass right back to whatever hell you come from." -- Rose Wynters
The Spanish PM rang me to say: 'I have the support of only 4 per cent of the people.' I said, 'Crikey, that's even less than think Elvis Presley is still alive.' -- Tony Blair
I rang up Jay Kay, who's got one, and said: 'Can we borrow yours?' and he said, 'Yeah, if I can borrow your daughter, because it amounts to the same thing.' -- Jeremy Clarkson
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As metal rang on metal, some inner part of Jem, some part that had been lost without his even knowing it was lost, felt the pleasure of fighting together with Will one last time. -- Cassandra Clare
Be forever dead in Eurydice-more gladly arise into the seamless life proclaimed in your song. Here, in the realm of decline, among momentary days, be the crystal cup that shattered even as it rang. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Unlike landed white men, she didn't need to climb mountains to experience mystic panic. All she needed was to set her alarm dock for the next morning, wake when it rang, and go to class. -- Sherman Alexie
Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired who suddenly rang false when I spoke their words in our living room. -- Anne Tyler

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