Entertainment Quotes - Page 13

• I think that Oprah's on a mission to improve the lives of the average American in various ways. And one of them is to bring literature to people who would normally not be quite as demanding in their reading tastes, to show them writing that can be more than just entertainment.

  Janet Fitch

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.274, Hachette UK

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• I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.

  Tatyana Tolstaya

  Attitude, Smart, Thinking

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• I think of my novels as entertainments.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Thinking, Novel

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• In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Real, Class, People

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• People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I'm like, 'No, families mess up kids!' I grew up in Hollywood, and I'm perfectly fine. If my children want to go into the entertainment business, I won't stop them, as long as they're passionate about it.

  Tori Spelling

  Children, Kids, Long

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• I don't understand why, in entertainment, the hours are as long as they are. It seems like everything takes forever, and no one can tell you why exactly.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Long, Forever, Hours

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. June 7, 2007.

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• I'm not interested in entertainment.

  Howard Barker

  Not Interested

  "Howard Barker: 'I don't care if you listen or not'". Interview with Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2012.

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• Music in Africa often contains messages. Music in Senegal, and Africa, is never music for music's sake or solely for entertainment. It's always a vehicle for social connections, discussions and ideas.

  Youssou N'Dour

  Ideas, Connections, Sake

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• What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment.

  Aloe Blacc

  Needs, Shelter, Clothings

  "Aloe Blacc Discusses His Grand Scheme to Get Some Dollars". Interview with Brandon Deroche, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2011.

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• I think a lot of food shows, especially when we started 'Good Eats' back in the late '90s, they were still really about food. 'Good Eats' isn't about food, it's about entertainment. If, however, we can virally infect you with knowledge or interest, then all the better.

  Alton Brown

  Thinking, Late, Interest

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• My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.

  Candace Cameron

  Mom, Dad, Next

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

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• I remember when I got to 16, my mum was like, 'No, now you've got to go and get a proper job. We've indulged you long enough.' I don't think they ever thought I was going to be successful in entertainment at all.

  Kelly Brook

  Jobs, Successful, Thinking

  "Kelly Brook" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2009.

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• We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.

  Lance Bass

  Musician, Actors, Want

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• The X Factor' is great entertainment, but it doesn't prepare people for getting chewed up and spat out by the music industry.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  People, Spats, Music Industry

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• My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic.

  Yancy Butler

  Eclectic Style, Taste In Music, Taste

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• Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it. I don't write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.

  Aidan Chambers

  Book, Writing, People

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• You have to look also to the media, where you have a vast majority of the loudest and most influential political voices in America media from people who came from the entertainment world.

  Ben Affleck

  Media, Voice, America

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. July 27, 2004.

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• The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.

  Gary Ackerman

  Confused, Philosophy, Hockey

  "A Congressional Exit Interview". Interview with Josh Tyrangiel, www.bloomberg.com. June 22, 2012.

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• Born of the impossibly varied options we have to amuse ourselves, cutting-edge companies are finding innovative ways to tailor our entertainment choices to who we are, relieving us of the burden of finding the diamond in the rough of 500 TV channels or thousands of movies and music albums released every year.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Cutting, Years, Choices

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• Entertainment is such a great job to have.

  2 Chainz

  Jobs, Great Job

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Journalism is straying into entertainment.

  Drew Curtis

  Journalism

  "Fark's Drew Curtis On How "News" Isn't News". Interview with Brian Montopoli, www.cbsnews.com. May 23, 2007.

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• Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.

  Drew Curtis

  News, Lines, Serious

  "Fark's Drew Curtis On How "News" Isn't News". Interview with Brian Montopoli, www.cbsnews.com. May 23, 2007.

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• So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.

  Lee Child

  Jobs, Real, Book

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• I love visiting LA. It's an endlessly fascinating city, and is, of course, America's entertainment capital. Each time I go, I fall in love with it all over again. That said, it's not the sort of place I'd want to live.

  Lee Child

  Falling In Love, Cities, America

  "Lee Child's Los Angeles". Interview with York Membery, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 1, 2010.

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• In the winters, I enrolled in the hotel management program at Cornell University. I naively thought that I knew something about sleight-of-hand, entertainment and food, and that would be all I needed.

  Ricky Jay

  Winter, Hands, Would Be

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