Entertaining Quotes - Page 17

• As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.

  Fede Alvarez

  Writing, People, Want

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• The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Character, Way, Sympathetic

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• Now is a good time, 10 years ago would have been a good time, and 10 years from now it will still be a good time to see a dynamic, entertaining movie that's wall-to-wall Miles Davis where the music will hopefully spark some desire to know more about the man.

  Don Cheadle

  Wall, Men, Years

  "Don Cheadle: The Time Is Right for a Miles Davis Biopic". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 15, 2010.

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• Ric Flair is one of the most entertaining guys to sit down with and by entertaining I don't mean he has catchy phrases, but that he's been through so much and his experiences are so genuine I could listen to him talk all day.

  John Cena

  Mean, Guy, Phrases

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that's entertaining for an audience, and it would be lovely if a magician was fooled as well.

  Ricky Jay

  Lovely, Magic, Would Be

  "Seven Lies About Lying". Interview with Errol Morris, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. August 5, 2009.

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• Layer upon layer, Italy's storied past unfolds in Robert Kaster's captivating journey along the venerable Queen of Roads. I cannot imagine a more perfect guide to such a rich trove of ancient and modern memories. Illuminating, erudite, entertaining, and evocative.

  Adrienne Mayor

  Queens, Memories, Past

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• Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational.

  Kevin Brownlow

  Art, Attitude, Silent

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• Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining.

  Philip Treacy

  Hats, Illusion, Gaga

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• I believe that doing movies like this is positive because they can inspire and be entertaining.

  Andrew Garfield

  Believe, Inspire, I Believe

  "Lions For Lambs - Andrew Garfield interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I'm hoping that these series, that originally aired in the 80's and 90's, prove to be as entertaining online and on portable devices as they were when first broadcast on network television.

  Stephen J. Cannell

  Television, Firsts, Online

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• How sacredly do [we] regard the good name of another?...Do we pass on spicy bits of entertaining conversation...repeating rumors and stories which have not been submitted to the test of truth?

  Howard W. Hunter

  Names, Rumor, Stories

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• All temptations can be handled easily when we know how, because no temptation is a temptation at all unless we are entertaining it.

  Sterling W Sill

  Temptation

  "That ye might have life".

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• If we entertain temptations, soon they begin entertaining us!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Temptation, Ifs

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• I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.

  Richard Russo

  Men, People, Want

  Richard Russo (2017). “Straight Man”, p.12, Atlantic Books

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• I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection.
  
  When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person.

  Robin Williams

  Mother, Connections, Needs

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• What's most galvanizing for me is the opportunity to be topical and relevant and entertaining. That's the holy grail.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Opportunity, Holy Grail, Relevant

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• Entertaining on any scale can be stressful and daunting.

  Pippa Middleton

  Stressful, Scales

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• The research in Ralph Keyes' The Quote Verifier is impressive, and each conclusion is like the solution to a real-life historical mystery. Who knew a reference book could be so entertaining?

  Will Shortz

  Real, Book, Historical

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• I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time.

  Natasha Calis

  Mom, Teacher, Character

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• My girlfriend Siri is a food blogger, and we both love to entertain and eat. This is what happens when you're in your thirties: what was once a passion and real appetite for nightlife in New York City manifests itself into other things, like entertaining at home.

  Carson Daly

  Girlfriend, New York, Real

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• Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.

  Gail Simmons

  Baseball, Fun, Thinking

  "‘Top Chef’ Judge Gail Simmons Reveals Her Favorite Ketchup". Interview with Michelle Madden, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2011.

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• I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16; I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Home, School, College

  Interview with Laura Rosenfeld, www.seventeen.com. September 01, 2011.

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• When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.

  Daley Thompson

  Inspirational, Funny, Men

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• I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Children, Book, Writing

  "Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On Franzen Feud: HuffPost Exclusive". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2010.

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• At least it's really entertaining when I embarrass myself.

  Lucas Till

  Source: www.mtv.com

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