Entertaining Quotes - Page 25

• Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.

  Aberjhani

  Tears, Complexity, Deeper

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• My interest in food really began with a months cookery course in Frome, Somerset, after my A-levels. I left the course not an incredible cook, alas, but a real enthusiast. Food and cooking is at the core of entertaining, and my passion grew and grew.

  Pippa Middleton

  Real, Passion, Cooking

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• Braxton Cosby's stories feel personal and well thought-out. I'm happy to welcome this entertaining writer to the YA science fiction field. I look forward to more of his work!

  Tananarive Due

  Looks, Fiction, Stories

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• For the most part my friends can always be more entertaining than the tube ever can be.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  My Friends, Tubes

  Source: www.charlierusso.com

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• My biggest problem with the retirement thing was I'd be leaving the part of this business that I enjoy the most... the entertaining part, being on stage and seeing how the music affects people.

  Garth Brooks

  Retirement, People, Leaving

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• You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.

  Otis Redding

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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

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• And the line up for the final of the women's 400 metres hurdles includes three Russians, two East Germans, a Pole, a Swede and a Frenchman

  David Coleman

  Inspirational, Funny, Two

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• I love telling stories and acting and entertaining people. I don't want to make fun of people.

  Bob Saget

  Fun, People, Acting

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• People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it's more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.

  Banksy

  Country, Military, Army

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• Hello, I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. By true I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies and in the end, isn't that the truth? The answer is no.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Lying, Mean, Encounters

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• How to please the public - that's the test, But nowadays I find I'm in a fix; I know they're not accustomed to the best, But they've all read so much they know the tricks. How can we give then something fresh and new That's serious, but entertaining too?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Giving, Tests, Serious

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “The Essential Goethe”, p.250, Princeton University Press

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• Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be "Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!

  Christopher Morley

  Fun, Men, Motto

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.130, Melville House

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• We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Men, Half, Welcome

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (2000). “Thirty-two Stories”, p.257, Hackett Publishing

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• If you want to know what cram is, I can only say that I don’t know the recipe; but it is biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely, is supposed to be sustaining, and is certainly not entertaining, being in fact very uninteresting except as a chewing exercise.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Exercise, Recipes, Want

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There I go being critical again. Does a man have to stand on one foot and juggle for me to consider him entertaining? What am I looking for? A knight?...No, knights are all polished and shiny. I think my taste runs to something with a bit of tarnish and maybe a few scratches. Someone who can make me laugh and cry and make me angry and make my knees tremble when he touches me.

  Nora Roberts

  Running, Men, Thinking

  Nora Roberts (2013). “The Heart's Victory”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• In the deceitfulness of our hearts, we sometimes play with temptation by entertaining the thought that we can always confess and later ask forgiveness. Such thinking is exceedingly dangerous. God’s judgement is without partiality. He never overlooks our sin. He never decides not to bother, since the sin is only a small one. No, God hates sin intensely whenever and wherever He finds it.

  Jerry Bridges

  Hate, Heart, Thinking

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• There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether they will be able to survive an entertaining version of what they have to say.

  Hannah Arendt

  Past, Able, Oblivion

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• I'm a fan of films in general; I mean, I don't think I've ever considered myself specifically a horror fan even though I do enjoy horror films, find them really entertaining.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Mean, Thinking, Fans

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• I want to deal with somebody who comes from another country to the United States and has a family that comes. I don't care if it's a black family from Jamaica or a Hispanic family from Mexico. These issues need to be dealt with, but they need to be dealt with in the entertaining way.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Country, Jamaica, Issues

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• I think that a good movie creates its own world, and that world needn't refer to anything that's real. If it's consistent, if it's entertaining, if it's interesting, it justifies its being there.

  Christopher Walken

  Real, Thinking, Interesting

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

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• My whole life is a practical joke. Every evening and every show has really become about entertaining me. I was always like that. And now I've come full circle because that's what the TV show is too.

  Howie Mandel

  Tv Shows, Circles, Full Circle

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• Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Children, Animal, Intelligent

  "Michael Morpurgo answers your questions". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2011.

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• Rian Johnson's 'Looper' is inventive, entertaining, and thought-provoking in every way a movie can be. It is in fact the kind of movie that reminds us why we watch them and make them, a beautifully told story that deserves to be not only remembered, but acknowledged for its writing.

  Jason Reitman

  Writing, Thought Provoking, Watches

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• Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos, eating, hanging out, things that make noise - all are now the norm, often edging out much else.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Museums, Drawing

  "The Long Slide. Museums as playgrounds." by Jerry Saltz, nymag.com. December 04, 2011.

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• My family isn't really all that different from anyone else's. Well, maybe they're a bit more entertaining.

  David Sedaris

  Family, Different, Wells

  David Sedaris, Jeffrey Jenkins (2017). “David Sedaris Diaries: A Visual Compendium”, p.159, Hachette UK

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