Entertainment Quotes - Page 16

• The nicest notes I've received from readers are those that tell me I've gotten them back into reading for entertainment. For me, there is no greater compliment.

  Jeff Abbott

  Reading, Compliment, Notes

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• A foolish picture I live in disgust, degradation being eaten by lust.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Art, Media, Lust

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• All caught up in the trends, well the truth began to bend.

  Jack Johnson

  Art, Media, Trends

  Song: Posters, Album: Brushfire Fairytales

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• All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.

  Dolly Parton

  Art, Believe, Media

  Song: Livin' A Lie

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• All the stars that never were are parking cars and pumping gas.

  Dionne Warwick

  Art, Stars, Media

  Song: Do You Know The Way To San Jose?, Album: Dionne Sings Dionne

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• All these poses of classical torture ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard. I did go from wanting to be someone, now I'm drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Art, Snakes, Media

  Song: Poses, Album: Poses, 2001

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• Arty farty, you'll never fool your Aunt, who knew you picked your nose and wet your pants.

  Ray Davies

  Art, Aunt, Media

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• As I watched him on the stage, my hands were clinched in fists of rage. No angel born in hell, could break that Satan's spell.

  Don McLean

  Art, Angel, Media

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• Betcha I wet cha like hurricanes and typhoons, got buffoons eating my pussy while I watch cartoons.

  Lil' Kim

  Art, Media, Pussy

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• When you come into the theatre, you have to be willing to say, 'We're all here to undergo a communion, to find out what the hell is going on in this world.' If you're not willing to say that, what you get is entertainment instead of art, and poor entertainment at that.

  David Mamet

  Art, Theatre, World

  David Mamet (2013). “Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama”, p.27, Vintage

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• Ads are not written to entertain. When they do, those entertainment seekers rare little likely to be the people whom you want. This is one of the greatest advertising faults. Ad writers abandon their part. They forgot they are salesmen and try to be performers. Instead of sales, they seek applause

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Writing, People, Trying

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• Creativity is an ode to life. It is not a form of entertainment. It is a form of joy.

  Wynn Bullock

  Creativity, Design, Joy

  Wynn Bullock, Raphael Shevelev (1993). “The enchanted landscape: photographs 1940-1975”, Aperture

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• The VIP area, which is geared to live entertainment, is a black-lit stage with a neon painting resembling New York City on the walls. It's supposed to resemble New York City, ... Look, we even have the Twin Towers on there.

  Mike Wells

  New York, Wall, Cities

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• The show has brought a lot of pleasure and entertainment to an entire generation of Baby Boomers and now their own teens who watch the show on cable.

  Dwayne Hickman

  Baby, Boys, Watches

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• I always said I was never gonna be an entertainer, Suicide was never supposed to be entertainment.

  Alan Vega

  Suicide, Said, Entertainers

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• That's not writing, that's typing

  Truman Capote

  Art, Writing, Comeback

  Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1985). “Conversations with Capote”, E P Dutton

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• I've never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I'm a cooking teacher.

  Martin Yan

  Teacher, Business, Cooking

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• In fact, entertainment has taken the place of celebration in the present world. But entertainment is quite different from celebration; entertainment and celebration are never the same. In celebration you are a participant; in entertainment you are only a spectator. In entertainment you watch others playing for you. So while celebration is active, entertainment is passive. In celebration you dance, while in entertainment you watch someone dancing, for which you pay him.

  Rajneesh

  Taken, Dancing, Different

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• It's tourists in New York. Everything is geared towards that. It's so hard on Broadway now for them to get people in there. They have to compete with so many other entertainments, so they have to bring a star in which puts people there out of work.

  Delta Burke

  New York, Stars, People

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• Hospitality has never been about having House Beautiful with perfectly coordinated accessories and the most up-to-date equipment, nor is it dependent upon having large chunks of leisure time and a big entertainment budget to spend, nor does it require special training in the culinary arts or event planning. Hospitality is about a heart for service, the creativity to stretch whatever we do have available, and the energy to give the time necessary to add a flourish to the ordinary events of life.

  Dorothy Kelley Patterson

  Beautiful, Art, Creativity

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• I work hard for the audience. It's entertainment. I don't need validation.

  Denzel Washington

  Life, Success, Faith

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• If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that’s more than just entertainment-w hich is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.

  Dean Koontz

  Struggle, Writing, People

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• The NRA disgraced itself this morning with a self-serving press event in which they demonized the media and the entertainment industry for gun violence in America, and advocated a national data base for all mentally ill persons. They apparently want armed guards in all American schools, and it seems, armed volunteers as well. Shocking.

  Anne Rice

  Morning, School, Gun

  FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Dec 21, 2012

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• Artists reach areas far beyond the reach of politicians. Art, especially entertainment and music, is understood by everybody, and it lifts the spirits and the morale of those who hear it.

  Nelson Mandela

  Art, Spirit, Politician

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• We now know that human transformation does not happen through didacticism or through excessive certitude, but through the playful entertainment of another scripting of reality that may subvert the old given text and its interpretation and lead to the embrace of an alternative text and its redescription of reality.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Reality, Doe, Alternatives

  Walter Brueggemann (2010). “The Word Militant: Preaching a Decentering Word”, p.26, Fortress Press

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