Entertaining Quotes - Page 15

• Behind every good decathlete, there's a good doctor.

  Bill Toomey

  Inspirational, Funny, Doctors

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• During a photo-call with fellow Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew- Pity Steve Ovett didn't show up. Then we could have had the good, the bald and the ugly.

  Daley Thompson

  Inspirational, Funny, Gold

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• After being impaled by a javelin, while officiating- I'm doing fine now, just resting and hanging around.

  Jeremy Campbell

  Inspirational, Funny, Javelin

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• There is no path I follow. I feel as if I'm just drifting along, because although I can progress physically, through my training, mentally and spiritually I don't know what the hell I'm doing. It's like that car sticker: 'Don't follow me, I'm lost'.

  Steve Ovett

  Inspirational, Funny, Car

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• For me, the goal is always to write a novel that I myself would like to read. People frequently ask me what my favorite book is, and in effect, there's always a capital-F Favorite, capital-B Book that I would like to write myself someday. I try to go for that ideal of writing the best, most entertaining, most beautifully written book that I possibly can.

  Michael Chabon

  Book, Writing, Goal

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 22, 2000.

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• You have to make entertaining movies. But like a good meal, it's nice to have a little food for thought after you walk out of the theater rather than just wiling away a couple of hours.

  Michael Douglas

  Couple, Nice, Meals

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 2, 2007.

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• Its the details and the human element that makes Recount entertaining. Even though we know how the election ends, it plays like a thriller. Its also funny.

  Kevin Spacey

  Play, Details, Elements

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• Of All the Gin Joints is one part cinematic history, one part old Hollywood weirdness, and one part handy basic bar guide, with a dash of romance and more than a few wry twists. Bailey and Hemingway prove themselves very entertaining cultural mixologists.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Romance, Hollywood, Bars

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• Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, what if? All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Reading, What If, Different

  "Interview: Jeaniene Frost, author of 'The Beautiful Ashes'". Interview with Lea Franczak, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. August 26, 2014.

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• Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Running, Men, Hands

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.458

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• One does not go to the theater to see life and nature; one goes to see the particular way in which life and nature happen to look to a cultivated, imaginative and entertaining man who happens, in turn, to be a playwright.

  George Jean Nathan

  Men, Doe, Looks

  George Jean Nathan (1972). “The Critic and the Drama”, p.55, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.

  Katherine Paterson

  Art, Book, Firsts

  Katherine Paterson (1981). “Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children”, Dutton Juvenile

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• Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear.

  Robert Browning

  Mean, Doubt, Recognizing

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.582, Wordsworth Editions

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• When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art.

  Judith Martin

  Art, Healing, Epidemics

  Judith Martin (1986). “Style and substance: a comedy of manners”, Scribner

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• When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness.

  Isaac Watts

  Two, Mind, Three

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• Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  People, Hospitality, Method

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• Art and Entertainment are the same thing, in that the more deeply and genuinely entertaining a work is, the better art it is. To imply that Art is something heavy and solemn and dull, and Entertainment is modest but jolly and popular, is neo-Victorian idiocy at its worst.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Art, Dull, Entertainment

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.232, Ultramarine Publishing

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• The violence for me is never meant to be entertaining. It's meant to hurt the characters and I'm trying to show the impact it is having on the people involved with it. If there is cathartic violence at the end, then it costs the protagonist something. It's not just a blaze-of-glory moment.

  Charlie Huston

  Hurt, Character, Impact

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• I'm an entertainer and I really enjoy entertaining. I think if you're going to really be what you say you are, you have to really live it, work it, practice it, and think it.

  Bernie Mac

  Thinking, Practice, Enjoy

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I have never had much trouble simultaneously entertaining diametrically opposed propositions, and welcome the possibility that this is not because I have one mind and am out of it, but because I have lots of them, all beavering away on their own.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Mind, Welcome, Trouble

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• suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini - a small but vital ingredient.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Suffering, Ingredients, Hospitality

  Phyllis McGinley (1965). “Sixpence in Her Shoe”

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• Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.

  Adam Clarke

  Death, Father, Dark

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 178, 1895.

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• I love meetings with suits. I live for meetings with suits. I love them because I know they had a really boring week and I walk in there with my orange velvet leggings and drop popcorn in my cleavage and then fish it out and eat it. I like that. I know I'm entertaining them and I know that they know.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Intelligent, Orange, Levels

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

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• THE THREE is really wonderful. A mix of Michael Crichton and Shirley Jackson, hard to put down and vastly entertaining.

  Stephen King

  Three, Down And, Wonderful

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• There’s something wonderful about entertaining people on vacation. Everyone is there to have a good time.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Travel, Vacation, People

  Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.28, Penguin

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