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• It is only now, these years later, that Rahel with adult hindsight recognized the sweetness of that gesture. A grown man entertaining three raccoons, treating them like real ladies. Instinctively colluding in the conspiracy of their fiction, taking care not to decimate it with adult carelessness. Or affection. It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

  Arundhati Roy

  Dream, Real, Men

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• Watching him was like opening the door to a siniging telegram; you know it's supposed to be entertaining, but you can't get beyond the sad fact that this person actually thinks he bringing some joy into your life. Somewhere he had a mother who sifted through a shoe box of mimeographed playbills, pouring herself another drink and wondering when her son would come to his senses and swallow some drain cleaner.

  David Sedaris

  Mother, Son, Thinking

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• Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

  Ice Cube

  Sports, Games, Music Is

  "Tribeca Interview: Ice Cube’s Straight Outta LA". Interview with Cynthia Ellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2010.

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• When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it - which is its universal appeal, I think.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Stars, Kids, Maturity

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• It is universally agreed that Jean Renoir was one of the greatest of all directors, and he was also one of the warmest and most entertaining.

  Roger Ebert

  Directors, Renoir

  Roger Ebert (2016). “The Great Movies IV”, p.78, University of Chicago Press

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• When we're discussing who to invite to a dinner party, my wife Chaz and I sometimes use the shorthand, 'good value for money,' which indicates guests expected to be entertaining.

  Roger Ebert

  Party, Wife, Use

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• It would have been funny if I had been an observer and not a participant, an idea that gave me a disconcerting insight into gossip. As I walked beside the silent Tamara, I realized that despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

  Sherwood Smith

  Hurt, Ideas, Gossip

  "Crown Duel". Book by Sherwood Smith, 1997.

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• For one thing, everyone there is so clever. Do they think me dull? Perhaps I should assure them that our goats enjoyed listening to me for hours on end. I am certain their bleats meant "Do go on, Miri, darling. You are immensely entertaining." Your immensely entertaining sister, Miri

  Shannon Hale

  Clever, Thinking, Listening

  Shannon Hale (2012). “Princess Academy: Palace of Stone”, p.113, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment…is like a qualifying examination. If a fiction can’t provide that, we may be excused from inquiring into its higher qualities.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Quality, Inquiring

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• I'm not such a bad fighter myself," Skye said. Po exploded with laughter. "Oh, fight him, Katsa. Please fight him. I can't imagine a more entertaining diversion.

  Kristin Cashore

  Laughter, Fighting, Fighter

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• Miss Marks, you see, makes her living by...entertaining young, and not so young, sailors...or any other members of the armed forced, or civilians, who enjoy...being entertained by ladies who...entertain.

  Rick Yancey

  Missing, Sailor, Members

  Rick Yancey (2011). “The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• Fun-run" indeed,what a misnomer. That'd be like saying "calm gremlin" or "pleasant hag." Or 'entertaining history textbook.

  Kiersten White

  Running, Fun, Textbooks

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• Do tell. It might be entertaining to see who gets to you first.” “Excuse me if entertaining you isn’t at the top of my agenda.

  Nalini Singh

  Agendas, Might, Firsts

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.154, Penguin

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• You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next.

  Dean Koontz

  Play, Imagination, Live Your Life

  Dean Koontz (2014). “Odd Thomas: You Are Destined to Be Together Forever (Short Story)”, p.5, Bantam

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• As much as I am one for real human interaction, I also want to make a show that's entertaining and that people want to see.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Real, People, Want

  "Jake Gyllenhaal Finds an Off-Broadway Family". Interview with Mark Peikert, www.backstage.com. August 28, 2012.

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• But to Lord Peter the world presented itself as an entertaining labyrinth of side-issues

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Issues, Labyrinth, World

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2013). “The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death”, p.334, Open Road Media

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• Just in case, though, I stormed into my apartment, tossed a quick hello to Mr. Wong, then rummaged through my entertainment center to lay out all my exorcism equipment. I kept it in my entertainment center because exorcisms were nothing if not entertaining.

  Darynda Jones

  Exorcism, Entertainment, Hello

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.50, St. Martin's Press

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• The most entertaining songs don't always come from a nice place. In songs where I think I'm being really sensitive, they seem quite boring actually. I've found that the songs that come out of nastier, more misanthropic places are better.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Song, Nice, Thinking

  "Jarvis Cocker answers your questions: 'Go on, then, give us the horrible ones'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2011.

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• In Land of Milk and Money, Anthony Barcellos mines rich family history to create a full-blooded tale that readers will find insightful, rewarding, and entertaining.

  John Lescroart

  Land, Insightful, Rich Family

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• Snooki is really beautiful and looks quite like Elizabeth Taylor in 'Cleopatra.' She has the same bone structure. I'm kind of obsessed with 'Jersey Shore.' People don't give them enough credit for how entertaining they are.

  Margaret Cho

  Beautiful, People, Giving

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• My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin their own explorations.

  Dan Brown

  Doors, People, Exploration

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• Manga is a very entertaining cultural form, made of many totally different genres. Don’t restrict yourself with a single style of manga. I would be delighted to be your springboard, but try to read as much as you can in order to branch out!

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Order, Style, Trying

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• Aside from the nagging, he's the most entertaining hallucination I've ever had.

  Kirsten Miller

  Nagging, Hallucinations

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• Consumers know precisely what's wrong with advertising. Be it TV or print or whatever, they know that advertising is never creative enough ... never as witty, inspiring, sophisticated, entertaining and downright likeable as they would like it to be.

  Phil Dusenberry

  Witty, Business, Creative

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• When you are in a good theatre show, it is a wonderful and very fulfilling experience, entertaining a large audience and their showing their appreciation for your efforts.

  Joel Grey

  Appreciation, Effort, Theatre

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