“When you read a book, you generate beta waves irrespective of the book's content. But if you look up from it, and start watching TV - it doesn't matter what the content of the program is - the beta waves disappear and you start processing alpha and theta waves. These are the same waves that you generate during meditation. Reading is primarily left hemisphere and watching television is primarily right hemisphere. Now how could that not have a major effect on our culture?” IfsLooksBookMatterCultureReadingLeftMeditationEffectsTelevisionTvsMajorsProgramWaveDisappearLook UpProcessingHemisphereAlphasWatching TvWatching TelevisionBetaTheta Author:Leonard Shlain
“It was a pity that movies and live TV left New York for Hollywood. London theater, movies, television - until (Britain's) money ran out - were always better than ours since the city was the political capital of the country, as well as the artistic and literary one. In L.A. we've always been slightly sealed off from real life. It's no accident that two of our most interesting directors, Woody Allen and Bob Altman, are more or less settled in the real world.” WorldWellsTwoRealCountryPoliticalLeftInterestingCitiesNew YorkTelevisionTvsDirectorsHollywoodTheaterAccidentsLondonReal LifePityArtisticRanBritainReal WorldBobMost InterestingWoodyLive Tv Author:Gore Vidal
“I remember the mid-50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the UK.” FirstsWellsRememberLeftActingChangedTelevisionNewsFemaleLife ChangingReportersTelevision News Author:Lynne Reid Banks
“During the 1970s and 1980s, the popular television soap opera As The World Turns portrayed sunrise during the opening credits and sunset during the closing credits... The soap-opera sunrise showed the sun moving toward the left as it rose rather than to the right. They obviously had gotten a piece of film showing a sunset and played it in reverse... Had they called their local astrophysicists, any one of us might have recommended that if they needed to save money, they could have shown the sunset in a mirror before they showed it running backward.” IfsWorldMightRunningFilmMovingTurnsCultureLeftSunPiecesTelevisionNeededMirrorsRoseCreditLocalsOpeningSunsetOperaReverseSunriseClosingSoapSaving MoneySoap OperasRunning Back Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I feel like I'm still learning the ropes of how television works. Obviously I have good folks surrounding me on different shows. It's funny because sometimes in film I'm sort of the third guy to the left, you can be as insane as you want to be as that guy.” WantFeelsStillsDifferentSometimesShowsFilmGuyLeftTelevisionThirdsFolksInsaneRopeThat Guy Author:Paul Schneider
“I don't think people ought to believe only one news medium. They ought to read and they ought to go to opinion journals and all the rest of it. I think it's terribly important that this be taught in the public schools, because otherwise, we're gonna get to a situation because of economic pressures and other things where television's all you've got left. And that would be disastrous. We can't cover the news in a half-hour event evening. That's ridiculous.” PeopleThinkingBelieveImportantWould BeSchoolLeftHoursHalfSituationOpinionEconomicEventsTelevisionTaughtOughtNewsPressureRidiculousMediumsEveningJournalPublic SchoolHalf Hours Author:Walter Cronkite
“If I had my life to live over again, I would have waxed less and listened more. ... I would have cried and laughed less while watching television ... and more while watching real life. ... But mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute of it ... look at it and really see it ... try it on ... live it ... exhaust it ... and never give the minute back until there was nothing left of it.” IfsGivingTryingLooksRealLeftGivenMinutesTelevisionShotsReal LifeLaughedCriedWatching Television Author:Erma Bombeck
“I've never left music behind, but I've had success in television.” LeftBehindsTelevision Author:Vanilla Ice
“Working on television is therapeutic to me. When that camera comes on all negativity vanishes. I forget about the fight I had with my neighbor. I forget about the pain in my left foot. I forget about my dog dying. Performing, for me, is an emotional cure all.” PainFightingLeftForgetFeetDyingDogTelevisionEmotionalCamerasNeighborCuresPerformingNegativityMy DogTherapeuticDogs Dying Author:Todd Newton
“I mean, a lot of people don't realize it, but fashion is one of the most racial industries left out there now. Radio and music aren't. Television and movies aren't. Even commercials now are showing interracial couples. You see a lot of diversity in TV shows, but you don't see that in fashion. You think there would be some, because the consumer is of all colors and all shades. But you don't see that in fashion.” PeopleThinkingMeanShowsWould BeLeftRealizingFashionTelevisionColorTvsIndustryCoupleDiversityRadioConsumersShadeTv ShowsLeft OutInterracial Couple Author:Tyson Beckford
“I have had a few rough patches in my life, but these last few years have been among the roughest. A few years ago, I left my job as host of the television show Extra. Our parting of ways was completely amicable; they were amazing to me. I had spent over a quarter of my life at that job, and without it, I felt like I had lost my compass. People didn't know how to introduce me anymore, because in L.A., you are your job.” PeopleKnowsWayYearsHas BeensShowsJobsLastsLostLeftFeltKnow HowTelevisionYears AgoExtrasRoughHostQuartersIntroducingCompassPatchesPartingTelevision ShowsRough Patches Author:Dayna Devon