Entertaining Quotes - Page 18

• Great stories, well written and heartfelt. Prisoner of SouthernRock is an engaging and entertaining celebration of southern music, musicians and characters.

  Chuck Leavell

  Character, Southern, Heartfelt

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• It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Book, Writing, Fiction

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• Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Piano, Laughing, Achievement

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• Reality TV is set up to make people entertaining. A good person with values and principles is not good television.

  Ronda Rousey

  Reality, People, Principles

  "Ronda Rousey: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 26, 2012.

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• I don't like the word "experiment" in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.

  Abel Korzeniowski

  Art, Immature, Moments

  "Composer Abel Korzeniowski on Sundance, Scores, Career". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. February 5, 2013.

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• To me if you're going have a show, it should be a show. It should be entertaining and take you on a journey.

  Anna Sui

  Journey, Should, Shows

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• I very much was inspired by Bill Bryson. He does cover science, but more often, it's a mixture of science and travel, and whatever he happens to be writing about - Shakespeare, Australia, the United Kingdom, or when he covers science in 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything' - he has an incredible ability to be both entertaining and enlightening.

  Mary Roach

  Writing, Australia, Doe

  "Spook and Stiff author Mary Roach". Interview with Donna Bowman, www.avclub.com. August 27, 2010.

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• If I'm bringing joy to people and entertaining people as an actor, then I should be grateful for that and act accordingly, you know?

  Ellen Pompeo

  Grateful, People, Joy

  "Keck's Exclusives: Ellen Pompeo Talks Grey's Anatomy Season 9". Interview with William Keck, www.tvguide.com. September 18, 2012.

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• And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Self, Views, Political

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

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• I'd rather make an interesting film that gets people talking, that maybe some people hate, than make the kind of 'entertaining' film that everyone feels ambivalent about.

  Emily Browning

  Hate, Talking, People

  "Emily Browning: total control". Interview With Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2011.

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• Shock waves to a tired brain, sends that hungry lady to my door again. She's my shelter from the storm when I feel the rain, entertaining white powder.

  Elton John

  Rain, Tired, Doors

  Song: White Lady White Powder, Album: 21 At 33

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• I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition.

  Colin Farrell

  Thinking, Film, Human Condition

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.

  Manny Farber

  Sweet, Golf, Men

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• As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen.

  Marvin Hamlisch

  Taken, People, Desire

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• It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways.

  Owen Hart

  Jobs, Wrestling, People

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• Even a song on the radio that completely lacks substance is there for a reason. Sometimes, people need a break from cold reality; the song that you really don't have to put that much thought power into can be just as entertaining as something that might take you on a three- or four-minute cruise through the depth of reality.

  Jamey Johnson

  Song, Reality, People

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• Just going on the road and entertaining the fans, that's amazing.

  Jordan Knight

  Fans

  "Jordan Knight is glad to be a New Kid again". Interview with Dennis Hensley, www.today.com. May 15, 2008.

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• Hollywood is great for entertaining people, it's a wonderful business but it's make-believe, you must remember that. That's one of the most important things to remember and the distinction in your own life, otherwise people get lost in their own fame, and it makes them unhappy.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Believe, People, Important

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

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• The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Character, Intelligent, Medicine

  "Rereading: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee". www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2010.

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• People have an infinite attention span if you are entertaining them.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  People, Attention, Infinite

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• For me, the most entertaining evening would be to go sit with entrepreneurs and talk with them about how they're building their companies and how we can help to make them better. That's the one thing in the world - well, I love doing that.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Entrepreneur, Would Be, World

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• Susanne Alleyn's Game of Patience is a well-crafted historical mystery, authentic in every detail. Wonderfully entertaining.

  Sandra Gulland

  Games, Historical, Details

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• Autobiography of a Yogi is justifiably celebrated as one of the most entertaining and enlightening spiritual books ever written.

  Tom Butler-Bowdon

  Spiritual, Book, Enlightening

  Tom Butler-Bowdon (2010). “50 Spiritual Classics: Timeless Wisdom From 50 Great Books of Inner Discovery, Enlightenment and Purpose”, p.301, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original purpose of entertaining may have been his highest purpose. (introduction to Gladiator, Book League Monthly, 1930)

  Philip Wylie

  Book, League, May

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• SHADOW PROWLER is a fresh, exuberant take on territory that will be familiar to all fans of classic high fantasy. Alexey Pehov introduces a cast of charming, quirky, unsavory, even loathesome characters in a fast-paced, entertaining adventure.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Character, Adventure, Quirky

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