Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.
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It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.
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No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.
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I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.
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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.
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There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
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My biggest fear in life is to be average.
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It wasn't until I was 14 and watched the 1976 Olympic games on television that I really started to dream about the big time. I remember seeing Evelyn Ashford in the 100 meters, and she was going to UCLA.
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Everybody asks me what it was like to be in my underwear for my network television debut.
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I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or things of that nature. But also where you bust the tile to decorate pots for flowers or table tops. Lots of different things. Wherever you want it, you can mosaic just about anything. It took me about two weeks to do a big birdbath.
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Television has raised writing to a new low.
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On average, since 9/11, the FBI reckons that just over 100,000 terrorism leads each year have come over the transom. Analysts and agents designate them as immediate, priority or routine, but the bureau says every one is covered.
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Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.
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People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no.
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I have a deep respect for the fundamentals of television, the traditions of it, even, but I don't have any reverence for it.
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Theatre is done largely for the love of the craft. Television makes you famous. And films immortalize you. That's the relationship between the three.
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There was only so much television you could do.
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I started to do theater when I was a little boy at school, and then, I think because my father was a documentary filmmaker and worked for German television, I was of course fascinated by what he did. Then when I was around 15, I did my first movie.
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I had a wonderful father, and I couldn't bear that television virtually ignored black fathers.
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Life's greatest adventure is in doing one's level best.
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If I get a script that's set in the jungle it goes to the bottom of the pile because I don't think the playgrounds are going to be very good there! I'm really aware of how lucky I am but I have the kind of job where I can bring my child to work.
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I am absolutely delighted that the international community has chosen Schwarz-Schilling to be my successor. He knows this country, he loves this country... and I cannot think of nobody better to take on this job.
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As the applicant pool grows, the exact place to draw the line between looking and leaping settles to 37% of the pool, yielding the 37% Rule: look at the first 37% of the applicants, choosing none, then be ready to leap for anyone better than all those you’ve seen so far.
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The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.
