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• The spectacle we find in true religions has as its purpose enchantment, not entertainment. The distinction is critical. By endowing things with magic, enchantment is a means through which we may gain access to sacredness. Entertainment is the means through which we distance ourselves from it.

  Neil Postman

  Distance, Mean, Magic

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.122, Penguin

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• We live in a profoundly nonintellectual culture, made all the worse by a passive hedonism abetted by the spread of wealth and its dissipation into countless electronic devices that impart the latest in entertainment and supposed information - all in short (and loud) doses of "easy listening".

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Listening, Culture, Information

  Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Providing new means of entertainment is the important thing.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Mean, Important, Providing

  "Shigeru Miyamoto: 'I'm the person who saw things differently'". Interview with Chris Schilling, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2011.

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• I enjoy shooting. Around where I live, it's something you do for entertainment once in a while, you go out and shoot targets.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Target, Shooting, Enjoy

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• The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It's a book you can delve into in pursuit of a particular fact, or crack open for entertainment at virtually any page.

  Daniel Hannan

  Book, Anecdotes, Cracks

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• Music therapy, to me, is music performance without the ego. It's not about entertainment as much as its about empathizing. If you can use music to slip past the pain and gather insight into the workings of someone else's mind, you can begin to fix a problem.

  Jodi Picoult

  Pain, Past, Ego

  Sing You Home: research for the book, CD lyrics, gay rights info and resources, www.jodipicoult.com.

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• The producer is at the center of entertainment. The producer is being forgotten, and producers must seize the center of activity.

  Marshall Herskovitz

  Forgotten, Producers, Activity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I like entertainment and think mastery is good, though I don't feel like a master. If a theme means having a story that's legible, then that's certainly what we do. But we don't treat design as an add-on layer.

  David Rockwell

  Mean, Thinking, Design

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• Television is a very writer-driven business, and it's one of the few parts of entertainment where writers are treated with respect, only because they need you. If they didn't have to treat you with respect, they would be happy to dismiss you.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Television, Would Be, Needs

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 9, 2005.

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• What I love about what digital entertainment has done is that they've given real creative freedom to folks like myself who are doing really groundbreaking stuff.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Real, Creative, Stuff

  "SXSW: Morgan Spurlock Calls Distributing Docudrama 'Connected' on AOL 'Freeing'" by Natalie Jarvey, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 14, 2015.

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• That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.

  Vince McMahon

  News, Television, Today

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• Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Doe, Cinema, World

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• God calls us to worship, but in many instances we are in entertainment, just running a poor second to the theaters. That is where we are, even in the evangelical churches, and I don't mind telling you that most of the people we say we are trying to reach will never come to a church to see a lot of amateur actors putting on a home-talent show.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Running, Home, People

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• Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape and all surfaces, dressing up some scene for our entertainment. Lately we had a leafy wilderness; now bare twigs begin to prevail, and soon she will surprise us with a mantle of snow. Some green she thinks so good for our eyes that, like blue, she never banishes it entirely from our eyes, but has created evergreens.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Winter, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2799, Delphi Classics

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• Art is not entertainment. Art is not luxury goods. Art is culture. It is you and me.

  Paige Bradley

  Art, Luxury, Culture

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• As a theatrical troupe, the Muppets haven't exactly been AWOL these past dozen years; the gang rocked YouTube in 2009 with their kick-ass rendition of Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody.' But they've certainly been lying low while our twitchy, tweet-y times have favored snarkier, more air-quote-driven entertainment, even from puppets. And in a way, that showbiz hiatus has worked in favor of The Muppets. For adults, the movie's gentle, clever, unironic humor feels freshly, trendily retro now, enhanced by laughs provided in cameos from a very up-to-date roster of stars.

  Lisa Schwarzbaum

  Stars, Queens, Clever

  "The Muppets" by Lisa Schwarzbaum, ew.com. November 30, 2011.

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• I love The Miz. His approach to his job is second to none; it's extremely important to him that he prepares on a daily basis. I travel with him and from the moment he gets up to the moment he goes to bed it's all WWE, all sports entertainment. He keeps his body in shape and he is a true champion in the ring and out. He's a great representative of the company and I'm learning a lot from him, not only on TV but outside as well.

  Alex Riley

  Sports, Jobs, Wwe

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• Unnamed entertainment industry moguls are now telling the New York Times that they intend never to work with Mel Gibson again. After all, how dare Mel Gibson challenge the public by producing a film that spurs public discussion, that pushes the envelope, that takes an old story to a new level. How dare Mel Gibson follow his own passion as a filmmaker. How dare he make $20 million on the opening day box office!

  Laura Ingraham

  New York, Passion, Office

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• In America, there's more of the question, should music be political or should it just be for entertainment purposes, whereas around the world that's not even an issue. I think people just assume that music should be everything.

  Serj Tankian

  Thinking, America, Issues

  "Singer-songwriter Serj Tankian". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. October 11, 2010.

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• I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in terms of music, fashion, and entertainment.

  Tony Hawk

  Sports, Fashion, Art

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• Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life ... would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights' Entertainments.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Night, Reality, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.62, Cosimo, Inc.

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• [A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment.

  Allan Bloom

  Men, Taste, Leisure

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• The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction.

  Russell Baker

  Bridges, Television, Dinner

  Russell Baker (1965). “All Things Considered”

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• I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.

  Sydney Pollack

  Art, Real, Mean

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• I consider myself lucky that Sheila Johnson, the cofounder of Black Entertainment Television, didn't choose to rest on her very impressive business laurels. Her luscious 100 percent modal scarves, printed with photos she takes all over the world, are gorgeous. Wearing one is like being wrapped in a hug.

  Gayle King

  Black, Hug, Lucky

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