Entertainment Quotes - Page 2

• No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Book, Reading, Library

  Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.554, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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• Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

  Douglas Coupland

  People, Machines, Form

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• The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.

  Elia Kazan

  Trying, Fields, Honest

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• I love entertaining people and this is entertainment.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  People, Entertaining

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• Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.

  Victoria Jackson

  Reality, Supposed To Be

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• I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

  Dennis Farina

  Reality, Long, Absolutely Nothing

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• I'm lucky that a lot of my friends are in the entertainment industry.

  Sean Lennon

  Lucky, My Friends, Industry

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Art, Believe

  FaceBook post by Steve Martin from Nov 27, 2011

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• The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

  Kin Hubbard

  Communication, Way, Host

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• Let's stop playing with ourselves and get on with the entertainment, shall we?

  April Winchell

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• This is the entertainment industry, so game designers have to have a creative mind and also have to be able to stand up against the marketing people at their company - otherwise they cannot be creative. There are not that many people who fit that description.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Games, People, Creative

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• Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment

  Chi McBride

  Real, Being Real, Tvs

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• The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Character, Analysis, Literature

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Richard Burgin (1985). “Conversations with Isaac Bashevis Singer”, Doubleday Books

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• Modern Carpet Designs may provide endless entertainment for your guests.

  W. Heath Robinson

  Design, Guests, May

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• I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.

  Nancy Kerrigan

  Sports, Two Sides, Skating

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• I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine.

  Robert Smith

  Song, Stuff, Vinyl

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• Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former with pleasure. In the coming age, art will fashion our entertainment out of new means of productivity in ways that will simultaneously enhance our profit and maximize our pleasure.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Fashion, Art, Mean

  "A Short Organum for the Theatre". Book by Bertolt Brecht, 1949.

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• Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

  Terry Brooks

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Teenager

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• I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Alcohol, Brain

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [34]

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• It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

  Richard Linklater

  Art, Film, Disappointing

  "You can't hold back the human spirit". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

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• In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.

  George Ade

  Country, Popular Entertainment, Cities

  Cosmopolitan Magazine, February 1928.

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• I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Doe, Entertainment Industry, Industry

  "Christopher Isherwood, The Art of Fiction No. 49". Interview with W.I. Scobie, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 1974.

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• It's not all about acting. It's about giving an art of entertainment to humanity.

  Sean Berdy

  Art, Giving, Humanity

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• There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment than the TV set.

  Harriet Van Horne

  House, Vacuums, Television

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

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• Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

  Steig Larsson

  Writing, Light, Stories

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