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• I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition.

  Colin Farrell

  Thinking, Film, Human Condition

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.

  Manny Farber

  Sweet, Golf, Men

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• As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen.

  Marvin Hamlisch

  Taken, People, Desire

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• It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways.

  Owen Hart

  Jobs, Wrestling, People

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• Even a song on the radio that completely lacks substance is there for a reason. Sometimes, people need a break from cold reality; the song that you really don't have to put that much thought power into can be just as entertaining as something that might take you on a three- or four-minute cruise through the depth of reality.

  Jamey Johnson

  Song, Reality, People

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• Just going on the road and entertaining the fans, that's amazing.

  Jordan Knight

  Fans

  "Jordan Knight is glad to be a New Kid again". Interview with Dennis Hensley, www.today.com. May 15, 2008.

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• Hollywood is great for entertaining people, it's a wonderful business but it's make-believe, you must remember that. That's one of the most important things to remember and the distinction in your own life, otherwise people get lost in their own fame, and it makes them unhappy.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Believe, People, Important

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I'm bringing joy to people and entertaining people as an actor, then I should be grateful for that and act accordingly, you know?

  Ellen Pompeo

  Grateful, People, Joy

  "Keck's Exclusives: Ellen Pompeo Talks Grey's Anatomy Season 9". Interview with William Keck, www.tvguide.com. September 18, 2012.

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• I very much was inspired by Bill Bryson. He does cover science, but more often, it's a mixture of science and travel, and whatever he happens to be writing about - Shakespeare, Australia, the United Kingdom, or when he covers science in 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything' - he has an incredible ability to be both entertaining and enlightening.

  Mary Roach

  Writing, Australia, Doe

  "Spook and Stiff author Mary Roach". Interview with Donna Bowman, www.avclub.com. August 27, 2010.

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• To me if you're going have a show, it should be a show. It should be entertaining and take you on a journey.

  Anna Sui

  Journey, Should, Shows

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• Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.

  Gail Simmons

  Baseball, Fun, Thinking

  "‘Top Chef’ Judge Gail Simmons Reveals Her Favorite Ketchup". Interview with Michelle Madden, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2011.

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• I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16; I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Home, School, College

  Interview with Laura Rosenfeld, www.seventeen.com. September 01, 2011.

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• When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.

  Daley Thompson

  Inspirational, Funny, Men

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• I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Children, Book, Writing

  "Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On Franzen Feud: HuffPost Exclusive". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2010.

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• At least it's really entertaining when I embarrass myself.

  Lucas Till

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Great stories, well written and heartfelt. Prisoner of SouthernRock is an engaging and entertaining celebration of southern music, musicians and characters.

  Chuck Leavell

  Character, Southern, Heartfelt

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• It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Book, Writing, Fiction

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• Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Piano, Laughing, Achievement

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• Reality TV is set up to make people entertaining. A good person with values and principles is not good television.

  Ronda Rousey

  Reality, People, Principles

  "Ronda Rousey: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 26, 2012.

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• I don't like the word "experiment" in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.

  Abel Korzeniowski

  Art, Immature, Moments

  "Composer Abel Korzeniowski on Sundance, Scores, Career". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. February 5, 2013.

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• The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Character, Intelligent, Medicine

  "Rereading: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee". www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2010.

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• There is always more in one of Ramanujan's formulae than meets the eye, as anyone who sets to work to verify those which look the easiest will soon discover. In some the interest lies very deep, in others comparatively near the surface; but there is not one which is not curious and entertaining.

  G. H. Hardy

  Lying, Eye, Science

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• Partying has never been my thing. I've been around some wild people. I've been in the same room and watched them experiment, and that's been entertaining.

  Vera Farmiga

  Party, People, Rooms

  "Q&A: Bates Motel's Vera Farmiga on the Terrors of Parenthood". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2014.

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• My wife says when I go out to the refrigerator, I do three minutes (entertaining) when the light goes on!

  Davy Jones

  Light, Wife, Three

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Theme-park approach to nature. We judge plants and animals by whether they're entertaining to us. We gravitate toward animals and plants that are big, dramatic, beautiful and at eye-level.

  Gary Larson

  Beautiful, Eye, Animal

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