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Daily Inspiration Quote by Priscilla Presley

"There were the phone calls and Elvis had asked me to visit him in Los Angeles. This was in 1962"

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It reads like a casual logistics note, but it’s really a doorway into a power imbalance dressed as romance. “There were the phone calls” is deliberately plain, almost bureaucratic, as if to say: this is how it started, mundanely, step by step. Then comes the pivot: “Elvis had asked me to visit him.” The sentence gives the agency to him, not them, and that matters. Priscilla’s recollection is doing two things at once - naming the beginning of a famous relationship while quietly reminding you that it began on someone else’s timetable, in someone else’s orbit.

The timestamp, “1962,” does heavy lifting without commentary. It anchors the story in a pre-feminist, pre-Internet celebrity culture where access was controlled by phone calls, intermediaries, and the mystique of distance. Los Angeles isn’t just geography; it’s the capital of image-making. Visiting him there suggests entering a world where the rules are set by fame, handlers, and spectacle, not by ordinary courtship.

The restraint is the point. Priscilla doesn’t foreground sensation; she offers a clean, almost clipped setup that invites the reader to fill in what she’s not explicitly dramatizing: the age gap, the celebrity gravity, the vulnerability of being “asked” into a narrative already larger than either person. By keeping the language modest, she claims credibility. It’s memory as controlled testimony - letting context do the accusing, and letting the reader feel how quickly “a visit” can become a life.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Presley, Priscilla. (n.d.). There were the phone calls and Elvis had asked me to visit him in Los Angeles. This was in 1962. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/there-were-the-phone-calls-and-elvis-had-asked-me-155855/

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Presley, Priscilla. "There were the phone calls and Elvis had asked me to visit him in Los Angeles. This was in 1962." FixQuotes. Accessed February 2, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/there-were-the-phone-calls-and-elvis-had-asked-me-155855/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"There were the phone calls and Elvis had asked me to visit him in Los Angeles. This was in 1962." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/there-were-the-phone-calls-and-elvis-had-asked-me-155855/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.

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Priscilla Presley

Priscilla Presley (born May 24, 1945) is a Actress from USA.

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