Entertainment Quotes - Page 35

• They're not your words, but you're reciting the lines.

  Matthew Sweet

  Art, Media, Lines

  Song: Smog Moon, Album: 100% Fun

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• This Hollywood ain't no good, I would rather be like Robin Hood.

  Van Morrison

  Art, Media, Robins

  Song: This Weight, Album: The Healing Game

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• This is the golden age of grotesque.

  Marilyn Manson

  Art, Media, Age

  Song: The Golden Age Of Grotesque, 2003

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• This overload is edging me further out to sea, I need to put some distances between overkill and me.

  Elton John

  Art, Distance, Media

  Song: Goodbye Marlon Brando Elton John Bernie Taupin, Album: Reg Strikes Back

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• This really blew my mind, the fact that me, an over fed, long haired, leaping gnome, should be the star of a Hollywood movie.

  Eric Burdon

  Art, Stars, Media

  Song: Spill the Wine

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• This year, notoriety got confused with fame, and the devil is down hearted because there is nothing left for him to claim.

  Don Henley

  Art, Confused, Media

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• Those days she was just a beautiful girl, now she's framed and hung up.

  Elvis Costello

  Beautiful, Girl, Art

  Song: Black And White World, Album: Get Happy!!, 1980

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• Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the stairs were steep, rugged, and broken. There was a huge fire-place in the room into which they walked, and the chimney was blackened with smoke; but no warm blaze lighted it up now. The white feathery dust of burnt wood was still strewed over the hearth, but the stove was cold, and all was dark and gloomy.

  Charles Dickens

  Uncles, Heart, Dark

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.429

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• Either over neither, both over either/or, live-and-let-live over stand-or die, high spirits over low, energy over apathy, wit over dullness, jokes over homilies, good humor over jokes, good nature over bad, feeling over sentiment, truth over poetry, consciousness over explanations, tragedy over pathos, comedy over tragedy, entertainment over art, private over public, generosity over meanness, charity over murder, love over charity, irreplaceable over interchangeable, divergence over concurrence, principle over interest, people over principle.

  Marvin Mudrick

  Art, People, Generosity

  Marvin Mudrick (1981). “Nobody Here But Us Chickens”

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• I feel blessed - I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don't want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I've gained in that time.

  Marie Osmond

  Blessed, Years, Age

  "What I see in the mirror" by Marie Osmond, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2012.

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• Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the Christians do not live in cultural centers and work in culture-forging fields such as academia, publishing, media, entertainment, and the arts. The assumption that society will improve simply be more Christian believers being present is no longer valid.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Country, Art

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• I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous.

  David Nicholls

  Believe, Book, Reading

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• When the back-to-the-cities trend started taking root, albeit very unevenly, cities were so glad to finally land deals that they routinely overpaid, not having a solid grasp of the demographic and market forces they should have been channeling instead of subsidizing. It’s especially true for retail and entertainment projects, which generate very poor-quality jobs. I have yet to find a city that has figured out how to ‘take the foot off the pedal’ and stop over-subsidizing, even when gentrification becomes a problem.

  Sandy Smith

  Jobs, Should Have, Land

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• For me, personally, I'm more comfortable with what I would call third-person entertainment, meaning watching a character that's explicitly not me and experiencing something through a character's eyes, than what I would call first-person entertainment, which is a video game in which I am the character.

  John Landgraf

  Eye, Character, Games

  Source: collider.com

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• More than ever, movies reveal themselves as healing, as helpful, as encouraging, as escapist - anything that makes someone get through their day in these times. It's the best form of entertainment, and it's still arguably the most inexpensive form of entertainment.

  Nicolas Cage

  Healing, Helpful, Form

  "Nicolas Cage Interview - KNOWING". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 18, 2009.

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• I wouldn't change anything for the world, although the fame part of this [entertainment] industry is tough to handle at times.

  Zac Efron

  World, Tough, Fame

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I love adventure movies, I just love action adventure films. It's pure cinema and you go in and you're lost to it. To me, it's that challenge - I want to give an audience that ride, that entertainment.

  Tom Cruise

  Adventure, Giving, Challenges

  "Mission Impossible 3 - Tom Cruise interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Care, Politics, Figs

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• Today, the mass audience (the successor to the "public") can be used as a creative, participating force. It is, instead, merely given packages of passive entertainment. Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's questions.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Yesterday, Creative, Today

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• It has become the custom in our country to expect all Chief Executives, from the President down, to conduct activities analogous to an entertainment bureau. No occasion is too trivial for its promoters to invite them to attend and deliver an address.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Country, President, Addresses

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• True Shandeism, think what you will against it, opens the heart and lungs, and like all those affections which partake of its nature, it forces the blood and other vital fluids of the body to run freely thro' its channels, and makes the wheel of life run long and chearfully round.

  Laurence Sterne

  Running, Health, Heart

  'Tristram Shandy' (1759-67) bk. 4, ch. 32

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• It is because everything is relative
  That we shall never see in that sphere of pure wisdom and
  Entertainment much more than groping shadows of an incomplete
  Former existence so close it burns like the mouth that
  Closes down over all your effort like the moment
  Of death

  John Ashbery

  Death, Wisdom, Effort

  John Ashbery, Lee Harwood, Tom Raworth (1971). “John Ashbery, Lee Harwood, Tom Raworth”, Not Avail

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• The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.

  Gerald Early

  Ambition, Class, America

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• My life may be encapsulated by one of Graham Greene's "entertainments" titles: 'Loser Takes All'. Since I was thrown out of highschool for political reasons, I was free to study on my own and develop my own ways of thinking.

  Israel Gelfand

  Science, Thinking, Political

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• In the major institutions of education, government, science, and the arts, we are witnessing the imposition of a post-Christian view of life. It now dominates in motion pictures, television, and every other form of entertainment.

  D. James Kennedy

  Christian, Religious, Art

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