Entertainment Quotes

• Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

  Walt Disney

  Movie, Gambling, Normal

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• Transmedia storytelling represents a process where integral elements of a fiction get dispersed systematically across multiple delivery channels for the purpose of creating a unified and coordinated entertainment experience. Ideally, each medium makes its own unique contribution to the unfolding of the story.

  Henry Jenkins

  Unique, Creating, Stories

  "Transmedia Storytelling 101" by Henry Jenkins, henryjenkins.org. March 21, 2007.

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• Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost. Stand-up comics, movie-makers and others who earn their living entertaining no longer "waste" time with setups and plot development, lest we reach for the remote and click them off our screen. The result is a loss of subtlety, anticipation and nuance and, in the process, a coarsening of our discourse.

  William Raspberry

  Life, Moving, Loss

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• Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.

  George William Curtis

  Spiritual, Believe, Book

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• Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.

  Neal Stephenson

  Needs, Persons

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• Meanwhile, NBC and I plan to continue our relationship with several new co-ventures including a new music show, while we also explore our ideas for me to create and host a new show of my own. I will not go quietly into the night... expect more great music and entertainment done in my own unique unmistakable and undeniable way. The Voice has given me all the altitude and incentive to do just that. Thanks for the memories and make way for many more!

  Cee Lo Green

  Memories, Unique, Night

  "CeeLo Green leaving 'The Voice'" By Lisa Respers France, www.cnn.com. February 19, 2014.

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• Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.

  William Shatner

  Ideas, Done, Pieces

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• If the ingredients for happiness are not within a person, no material success or entertainment or platinum credit cards can make that person smile.

  Og Mandino

  Cards, Credit, Ingredients

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.123, Bantam

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• The world is a stage, the stage is a world of entertainment.

  Howard Dietz

  World, Stage

  Howard Dietz (1974). “Dancing in the dark”

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• My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Fun, Laughter, Real

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

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• We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday

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• Television is the box they buried entertainment in.

  Bob Hope

  Television, Boxes, Buried

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• Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.

  Hannah Arendt

  People, Culture, World

  Hannah Arendt, Ronald Beiner (1989). “Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy”, p.103, University of Chicago Press

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• It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.

  Carroll O'Connor

  Seems, Values

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• People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Life, People

  George Carlin (2004). “When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, Hyperion

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• I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

  Walt Disney

  Education, Hope, Learning

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• Entertainment alleviates the fear of life, but art vanquishes the fear of death

  Dean Cavanagh

  Art, Fear Of Death, Vanquish

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• I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Art, Building

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• I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.

  Uwe Boll

  Thinking, Games, Play

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• Well, you know, in this crazy world of entertainment, I would say if you have a dream, you have to pursue it.

  Caprice Bourret

  Dream, Crazy, World

  "Caprice Bourret...the sexiest fish in the pond". www.askmen.com.

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• I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

  Tom Clancy

  People, Watches, Generations

  "Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology". Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.

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• Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

  T. S. Eliot

  People, Television, Permit

  "Anti-TV guerrillas wield their new zapper" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2005.

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• Entertainment and art are not isolated

  Martin Kippenberger

  Art, Isolated

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• Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Art, Passion, Television

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.55, Bantam

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• The entertainment is in the presentation.

  John McTiernan

  Presentation

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