David Bird
Related JACK KEROUAC More hours of television than anyone else in TV history. E. DUKE VINCENT DYLAN MCDERMOTT JERZY KOSINSKI HUGH MACKAY JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU METHOD MAN JORGE RAMOS Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do SOTONYE ANGA And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is th... JENNA ELFMAN Ninety-six percent of women in this country expect a diamond when they get engaged. About 40 percent... BART MARKS DYLAN MCDERMOTT All people see on TV is 95 percent of the hurricane coverage is on New Orleans. The affected area eq... JOE VITALE More Americans own their home than ever before. Nearly 70 percent of American's are homeowners. ... RANDY NEUGEBAUER I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ... HLONIM JACK KEROUAC JACK KEROUAC CORY DOCTOROW This is more than a bump in the road. I think more and more, TV and video entertainment is moving to... GARTH TUCK I work 56 hours a week on average. That's time away from home. You miss your kids' ballgames and all... BILL LEFORCE I work 56 hours a week on average. That's time away from home; you miss your kids' ballgames and all... BILL LEFORCE Here's a top tip: get hold of a hardback edition of one of these pompous books, cut out the middle c... A. CRETAN Viewers of television are much more savvy about the inside mechanics of television and of show busin... JAMES PONIEWOZIK ROBERT C. MERTON I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous ... JEREMY BULLOCH I work 56 hours a week on average. That's time away from home; you miss your kids' ball games and al... BILL LEFORCE Our people put in between 40 and 60 hours a month on their dogs. GARY WIEGAND DAVID HAREWOOD A television event's ability to rise above the current prime-time average is a true measure of its s... ALAN WURTZEL EMMA LAZARUS It's not just television. It's television, games and recreational use of the computer. Our hope is t... ROBERT KESTEN DYLAN MCDERMOTT One of the differences between real documentaries and reality television, besides the artificial con... STEVE JAMES Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel exclude... MICHAEL MEDVED DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Television, as it is today and for the last 60 years, has been a very passive or non-social experien... ANDY LIU Tween programming is so retro that the shows even have theme songs, something the quest for more com... JONATHAN DEE Representation (on television) is so important to people. Lesbians have never had a show of our own ... ILENE CHAIKEN We're seeing more and more people online longer, ... Our users are on average keeping their buddy li... BRIAN CURRY ...knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happen... RAYMOND E. FEIST This review is from: On the Shortness of Life (Penguin Great Ideas) (Paperback)AMAZON REVIEWER ELIZABETH PETERS But when have I ever needed saving?TRACY WARD NOEL COWARD NOEL COWARD Millions of American families will need a converter box costing $60 or more just to keep watching te... JOHN DINGELL He has become the icon, more so than Big Bird. Let's capitalize on the momentum. BOB CARUSO Television is a real woman's medium... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, w... PATRICIA RICHARDSON I hate performing on live television. It's so scary, because, if you screw up, you don't rea... PHILLIP PHILLIPS PETER M. LESCHAK PETER M. LESCHAK PETER M. LESCHAK I think cable TV in the United States is amazing right now. It's reinvented television, really. ... ROBERT TAYLOR LISA EDELSTEIN The financial security [in TV] is incredible. I'm married and would like to start a family, and noth... FREDERICK WELLER We graduate more than 95 percent of our nursing students. I am very proud of that. That is above ave... DENISE JORDAN More than 50 percent on average of all these indexes is in oil and refined products. It's having a m... FREDERIC LASSERRE Intercourse was now forbidden to everyone but married people; bundling disappeared. In its place you... LEORA TANENBAUM Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indi... JEFF DANIELS JAMES HANSEN It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classr... PAUL WEYRICH VICTOR WEBSTER People under 60, raised on television, they remember by what they see. The churches that are using a... DOUG ADAMS GERARD DEPARDIEU We're seeing more and more peopleBRIAN CURRY People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is ... STEPHEN ROOT Pressure is showing on the BMC they want to ban a lot of things and bring down a lot of things. The ... APURVA GAGLANI I was 11 and watching soap operas with my mom, and I thought it would be cool to be an actor. I thou... BRITT ROBERTSON Soap operas are like boot camps for film actors, so I really learned a lot. It was a masterclass in ... FINN WITTROCK Americans spend an average of 29 hours a week watching television ... which means in a typical life ... MICHAEL MEDVED E. M. CIORAN WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE If there's something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television h... PENELOPE ANN MILLER STEVEN SPIELBERG This is huge. It's one hour of free publicity on national television, in prime-time. DONNA BROWN ROBERT MACNEIL ROBERT MACNEIL No major group has spent a dime on television ads in the last week. BERT BRANDENBURG The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human ... KEVIN P. RYAN Television is just the wrong medium, at least in prime time, to teach science. I think it is hopeles... JEREMY BERNSTEIN The nation has moved on far more than a lot of the families have, which for us is difficult to see, ... CHRISTIE COOMBS In order for your site to be 100% utilized, you need to have on average one visitor at any time on i... SIMOS SYMEOU FROM PRIMECOM The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of t... L. NEIL SMITH The Television commercial is the most efficient power-packed capsule of education that appears anywh... C. L. GRAY ASSEGID HABTEWOLD Gymnastics demands so much of our time. We train all week and travel and compete on weekends. The pe... AMANDA BORDEN PAT BOONE A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are e... ADAM BALDWIN The average number of hours of tutoring per week for each student is between six and eight. ALSACE TOURE JEFF FOXWORTHY This neighborhood is on the television for bad things all the time and you want to send my child the... JENNIFER DAVIS I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out th... GALE GORDON The point is that television does not reveal who the best man is. In fact, television makes impossib... NEIL POSTMAN SALMAN RUSHDIE People see you on television, and they think you make the same amount of money that Clint Eastwood d... BOB ROSS C-SPAN2 has a new Book TV show that features interviews with nonfiction authors, so it has turned a ... CATHY CLARK If you are not 15 minutes early, then you are late. WOHI PURANA GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
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