Entertainment Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails to excite resentment, an insolent assertion of superiority, and a triumph over less enlightened understandings. The pedant is, therefore, not only heard with weariness but malignity; and those who conceive themselves insulted by his knowledge never fail to tell with acrimony how injudiciously it was exerted.

  Samuel Johnson

  Understanding, Triumph, Acrimony

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.196

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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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• Your mind is the greatest home entertainment center ever created. It requires contemplative silence to really discover who you truly are. You have immense talents, resources and abilities that are untapped.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Home, Silence, Mind

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• That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it.

  Kurt Cobain

  Music, Famous Musician, Music Is

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• Business is difficult. But it could be approached two ways: Seriously, or with the same way you're doing your job, with entertainment aspect, with pleasure, with fun. And we decided to try to make it as fun that we do our creativity.

  Guy Laliberte

  Jobs, Fun, Creativity

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

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• It is time that we allow the Word of God, not the glamorized lies of Hollywood to become the cornerstone of our convictions, thoughts, and attitude. It is time we trade the emptiness of pop culture entertainment for the real-life adventure of a Christ-built existence. Only then will truth reign and rule in our lives. Only then will our lives make an eternal impact for His glory.

  Leslie Ludy

  Attitude, Lying, Real

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• In this Western world that we have, culture risks being [only] a form of entertainment.

  Shirin Neshat

  Risk, Culture, World

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• Kids need to see entertainment where females are valued as much as males.

  Geena Davis

  Kids, Males, Female

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• The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Church

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• And being as I'm somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I get in the mood for all kinds of movies, and so I like to try each of them.

  Christian Bale

  Christian, Movie Love, Trying

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