Entertaining Quotes

• I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Half, Tables, Novel

  Summing Up (1938) p. 92

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• I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

  Spike Lee

  People, Thought Provoking, Trying

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• People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Movie, People, Watches

  "Director Matthew Vaughn talks Layer Cake and X-Men 3". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. May 10, 2005.

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• If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.

  John Lasseter

  Children, Sitting, Stories

  "A Minute With: Disney's John Lasseter on creating Oscar magic". Interview with Zorianna Kit, uk.reuters.com. February 25, 2010.

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• My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good.

  Guy Ritchie

  Jobs, Interesting, Looks

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• A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.

  Orrin Woodward

  Long, Secret, Benefits

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• Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war -for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, War, Guitar

  "The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics" by The Beatles, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1969.

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• I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world.

  Julia Gardiner Tyler

  Winter, Presidential, Reign

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• I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.

  Laura Prepon

  Stuff

  "That '70s Star Is a Rushing Bride". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. November 30, 2005.

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• I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

  Brad Paisley

  Trying, Why Not, Mindset

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

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• If I had my way, I'd do all my entertaining on the front steps

  Alan Ladd

  Way, Steps, Ifs

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• I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

  Elvis Presley

  People, Missing

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• I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.

  Serj Tankian

  Truth, Used, Minstrels

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

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• Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.

  Kate Fox

  Men, Gossip

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• I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.

  John Lasseter

  Believe, Pride, Two

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• I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.

  John Lasseter

  Character, Joy, Parks

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• To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.

  John Drinkwater

  May, Poet, Concerned

  John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.

  Roger Sessions

  Profound, Levels, Lasts

  Roger Sessions (2015). “Roger Sessions on Music: Collected Essays”, p.166, Princeton University Press

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• Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.

  Caleb Cushing

  Gentleman, Looks, Done

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• This is something I love to do. I've never had any other job. I love singing and entertaining.

  Stephanie Mills

  Jobs, Sight, Singing

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• We are in the entertaining business, they want to get autographs, they want to take something home, whether it's a signed hat or, you know, program or whatever it might be.

  Bernhard Langer

  Sports, Home, Want

  Interview with Julius Mason, www.rydercup.com. September 14, 2004.

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• I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else

  Alan Ladd

  Want, Chewing, Scenery

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• The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.

  Vince McMahon

  Thrill, World, Bigger

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• People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  People, May, Too Much

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• Ultimately, it is in fun. It is supposed to be highly entertaining.

  Bill Hicks

  Fun, Supposed To Be

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