The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month.
The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.
Louis Althusser, Philosopher (1918) |
Mary Daly, Theologian (1928) |
Jeremy Jackson, Actor (1980) |
Gary Kemp, Musician (1959) |
Angela Lansbury, Actress (1925) |
Gaston Bachelard, Philosopher (1962) |
Mel Carnahan, Politician (2000) |
Dan Dailey, Actor (1978) |
Moshe Dayan, Soldier (1981) |
Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Soldier (1946) |
Alfred Jodl, Soldier (1946) |
Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Soldier (1946) |
Wilhelm Keitel, Celebrity (1946) |
Deborah Kerr, Actress (2007) |