Entertaining Quotes - Page 8

• There is no path I follow. I feel as if I'm just drifting along, because although I can progress physically, through my training, mentally and spiritually I don't know what the hell I'm doing. It's like that car sticker: 'Don't follow me, I'm lost'.

  Steve Ovett

  Inspirational, Funny, Car

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• We're all too busy working, entertaining ourselves With forty hours, television and prescription pills Well, I take two a day to help my brain behave It never does, but who's to say? At least my doctor gets paid.

  Conor Oberst

  Doctors, Two, Brain

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• For me, the goal is always to write a novel that I myself would like to read. People frequently ask me what my favorite book is, and in effect, there's always a capital-F Favorite, capital-B Book that I would like to write myself someday. I try to go for that ideal of writing the best, most entertaining, most beautifully written book that I possibly can.

  Michael Chabon

  Book, Writing, Goal

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 22, 2000.

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• Like Rodgers and Hammerstein, I'm not afraid to deal with themes about the ups and downs of life, yet which are still entertaining, and you still feel these stories.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Stories, Theme, Not Afraid

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• Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

  Vanna Bonta

  Gossip, Heard, Fascinating

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

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• Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and entertaining to consider that at least once in the world's history those words might have been said with complete conviction, and that was on the eve of the Resurrection.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Jesus, Drama, Might

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• I feel blessed that I get to be part of entertaining people in any capacity.

  J. J. Abrams

  Blessed, People, Capacity

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• To divine the course of world events, you'd do as well to probe the entrails of dead animals. Better still, ask your hairstylist. She will be at least as insightful and probably more entertaining a prophet than anyone you can read in Foreign Affairs or the op-ed page of the Washington Post.

  Andrew Bacevich

  Animal, Insightful, Events

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• The books of jurisprudence were interesting to few, and entertaining to none: their value was connected with present use, and they sunk forever as soon as that use was superseded by the innovations of fashion, superior merit, or public authority.

  Edward Gibbon

  Fashion, Book, Interesting

  Edward Gibbon, Francis Parkman, William H. Prescott, Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812”, p.1116, Modern Library

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• The villain is always more entertaining because he has fewer limitations. The hero is bound by honor, by justice and by the law, sometimes.

  Len Wein

  Hero, Law, Justice

  Source: collider.com

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• When it comes to performance art, I am more interested in the failures then the so-called successes. I have never cared for entertaining anyone.

  Vaginal Davis

  Art, Performance Art, Performances

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My performances may have elements that some may find entertaining, but that's not my main purpose.

  Vaginal Davis

  Purpose, Elements, May

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [Science fiction is] the attempt to deal rationally with alternate possibilities in a manner which will be entertaining.

  Lester del Rey

  Fiction, Possibility, Deals

  Lester Del Rey (1980). “The world of science fiction, 1926-1976: the history of a subculture”, Dissertations-G

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• The true test of our worldview is what we find entertaining.

  Albert Mohler

  Tests, Worldview

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• As inherently franchise-altering as drafts are, as monumental as they can be in the sport's history, you still can't get past the fact that this is several hours of people wearing suits and reading names off a sheet of paper. The athletes' clothes are entertaining - though not as much as they once were - and there's a warmth you get from watching young men and their families have their dreams come true. But it's still just a televised committee meeting.

  Will Leitch

  Sports, Dream, Reading

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• I just want the viewer to have a very informative and entertaining listen. I want them to feel like they've pulled up a chair right next to us. I hope to bring to the telecast what I call 'buddy information' - where you hear something and maybe the next day you say to your buddy, 'Hey, I heard something about this player or this team,' and they pass it on by word of mouth.

  Tom Verducci

  Team, Player, Next Day

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• I got in journalism for any number of reasons, not least because it's so much fun. Journalism should be in the business of putting pressure on power, finding out the truth, of shining a light on injustice, of, when appropriate, being amusing and entertaining - it's a complicated and varied beast, journalism.

  David Remnick

  Fun, Light, Numbers

  "Media People: The New Yorker’s David Remnick". Interview with Alexandra Steigrad, wwd.com. October 10, 2014.

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• If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Adventure, Discovery, Anecdotes

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.1165, e-artnow

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• Johnny sort of popped into my head midway through the first draft, and he wouldn't leave. But the more I thought about it, the more it made sense. In the first half of the movie, this guy is in the house not doing anything. I really needed an actor who's inventive and who will make enough idiosyncratic choices to make it entertaining to watch. And let's face it, Johnny Depp could make a nap interesting to watch.

  David Koepp

  Naps, Interesting, Choices

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• If I may bend your ear for a moment, I like Terry Pratchett. I like footnotes. I like footnotes even when they are not as entertaining as a Pratchett footnote, even when they are in the middle of a book on evolutionary biology and briefly explain the Red Queen hypothesis or the fate of the Stephen's Island Wren or how many bunnies can dance on the back of Australia. Footnotes fill me with a very mild glee. The endnote simply does not compare.

  Ursula Vernon

  Queens, Book, Fate

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• A person may come into full harmony with the formless substance by entertaining a lively and sincere gratitude for the blessings it bestows upon him.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Gratitude, Blessing, Substance

  Wallace D. Wattles, General Press (2016). “The Science of Getting Rich”, p.54, GENERAL PRESS

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• One movie I think is just terrific is 'Bernie,' with Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine. That was a great surprise to me - so witty, so entertaining, a true story, and I'm not a great Jack Black fan, but he's great in it. I think it's a gem.

  Robert Osborne

  Witty, Thinking, Black

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• Music has always been something I wanted to do. I think just the idea of performing and entertaining and being in the studio is really what I wanted to know how that felt. I started to get into it around the same time I got into acting, but it turned into a side project because my movies were taking up most of my time.

  Hailee Steinfeld

  Thinking, Ideas, Acting

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Tact is kind; diplomacy is useful; euphemism is harmless and sometimes entertaining

  Julian Burnside

  Kind, Sometimes, Diplomacy

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• My businesses are usually built around challenging conventional wisdom, so I tend to gain by taking the other side. It's been very profitable and entertaining for me

  Mark Cuban

  Challenges, Gains, Sides

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