Also, Del Toro turned down I am Legend (2007), One Missed Call (2008), and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) for the same reason.

同时，德尔·托罗还因为同样的原因婉拒了《我是传奇》(2007)、《鬼来电》(2008)以及《哈利·波特与混血王子》(2009)的执导工作。

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What a close call. I almost missed the train.

太险了。我差点错过了火车。

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Two hours later the power came on and I saw I had one missed call. They told me I didn't get the job because I was too unprofessional to pick up my phone.

两个小时后来电了，我发现有一个电话留言说你连电话都不会接还找什么工作。

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All week I'd think of the conversation I'd have with my parents the following Sunday after church, collecting imagined victories, social engagements, popularity, good behavior, although I had not told them I was going to Mass every Sunday or how little I missed the long silence of Quaker Meeting, only that noon was the best time for them to call.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Warm Springs'

Although I missed out on all of it not only on the brothers Mario and the Nintendo games but on Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, SimCity, and Halo I saw legions get sucked in, and so I formed the not uncommon opinion that video games, like motorcycles or heroin, were irresistibly seductive and profoundly insidious.

NEWYORKER: Master of Play