Bill Kovach Quotes
In the 1990s, as it began to feel the impact of cable news and syndicated infotainment programming, network evening newscasts became increasingly focused on tabloid crime and celebrity.
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.
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I'm good at utilising body parts as letters.
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I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
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Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.
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Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don't think because it's an hour of your Thursday night rather than an hour and a half of your weekend that you should be gypped at all in quality.
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I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.
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Taiwan has been so well developed economically. But we are underdeveloped culturally.
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I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
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I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.
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I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.
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My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.
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One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.
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I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan.
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Sexual harassment in the workplace confuses rewards for performance with rewards for attractiveness and sexual availability.
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These external regions, what do we fill them with Except reflections
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I'm excited for people to realize that I'm 25 years old and not a teenager anymore... even though I still look 18 and can't get into a bar to save my life!
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The building blocks of discrimination tend to be similar wherever you find them.
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I liked getting the Grammy more than not getting it.
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This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
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One of my first observations about New York that I was so fascinated with was that you'd be at a stoplight, and you're with everybody; there's a homeless dude and some weird celebrity and a cop and someone who looks exactly like you.
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It was never something I had in my mind to do – a show on Nickelodeon, let alone being consider a teen idol. It’s odd. I remember my mom picking up a magazine with me on the cover and saying, ‘You don’t know how weird this is for me.’ I told her, ‘You don’t know how weird it is for me!’
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Since the industrial revolution, cities, and especially the inner cities, were the places for the newly arrived. Voluntary immigrants seeking economic betterment, refugees, the bohemians, the artists - all of those people were crammed into densely populated neighborhoods and tenements. And as people climbed up the economic ladder they moved out, which really accelerated with the "white flight" phenomenon in the '60s and '70s.
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In the 1990s, as it began to feel the impact of cable news and syndicated infotainment programming, network evening newscasts became increasingly focused on tabloid crime and celebrity.
