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" If people are going to watch TV, let’s give them something coherent with actual dialogue. " - Craig T. Nelson

" I’d really like to play a character who’s inarticulate. I always play people with language. It would be good to play a mute or a fool or a saint. " - Michael Emerson

" A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals. " - Robert M. Hutchins

" Human beings are social creatures. We are social not just in the trivial sense that we like company, and not just in the obvious sense that we each depend on others. We are social in a more elemental way: simply to exist as a normal human being requires interaction with other people. " - Atul Gawande

" When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal. " - Steven Pinker

" The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can’t multitask, and we shouldn’t keep interrupting important connections to each other with the latest message coming in. " - Douglas Rushkoff

" How about keyboards in your mouth? How fast can you type with your tongue? People will think you’re just masticating, when you’re really talking to your girlfriend. " - Nolan Bushnell

" Hearing people say, ‘How can these deaf people understand the show when they come to a rock club?’ They’re up there, at the front of the stage, and they’re feeling the vibrations. " - Paul Raci

" Now, Marlon and I – for some reason, even today – even today, we can’t say two words to each other. We really can’t talk to each other. You know, I say to him – Marlon can’t talk. I mean, he’d talk to you. But he can’t talk. " - Anthony Quinn

" Literally thousands of e-mails over the course of a book go out to people I’ve never met, people who might end up being the focus of a chapter. " - Mary Roach