Entertainment Quotes - Page 23

• The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles and character of farce, as distinguished from comedy and from entertainments. A proper farce is mainly distinguished from comedy by the licence allowed, and even required, in the fable, in order to produce strange and laughable situations. The story need not be probable, it is enough that it is possible.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Philosophical, Character, Men

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “Shakespeare, With Introductory Matter on Poetry, The Drama, and The Stage by S.T. Coleridge: Coleridge’s Essays and Lectures on Shakespeare and Other Old Poets and Dramatists”, p.61, e-artnow

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• The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort of second-class historian of the age he lives in. The "reality" he missed by writing about imaginary people, he gains by being able to build a reality more nearly out of his own factual experience than a plain historian or biographer can.

  John Dos Passos

  Book, Writing, Reality

  John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”

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• Across all of the universe of creative lying, whether you believe in the art of it or the entertainment of it, or both, a certain foundation in the basics allows you to kind of jump out into the unknown.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Art, Lying, Believe

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• There seems to be a contradiction in the fact that there's more music around and more channels or downloading music or more channels on TV, and yet at the same time, in some ways it doesn't seem to be as vital as it once was. It seems to be just another entertainment option or lifestyle enhancement aid or something.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Way, Enhancement, Facts

  Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. April 2, 2007.

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• The basic thing is, people want to get paid, so they'll say the things that get them paid, in entertainment or politics.

  Roseanne Barr

  People, Want, Basic Things

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.

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• There are people that entertainment is something they do at the end of a long hard day at work, and they want to be entertained and have it over quickly. They're like, "Entertain me fast!"

  Judd Apatow

  Long, People, Want

  "Director Nicholas Stoller and Producer Judd Apatow Talk The Five-Year Engagement". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 21, 2012.

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• One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.

  Glenn Howerton

  Drama, Play, Television

  "EXCLUSIVE: Glenn Howerton Reminds Us Why It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. September 05, 2007.

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• World Screen is a great resource-the perfect one-stop guide to what matters most in global entertainment.

  Bonnie Hammer

  What Matters, Perfect One, World

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• When I first got into the entertainment industry, I would always watch Rihanna and all those people, so I was like, 'Ooh, I have to be this.' So my mom was like, 'Just be yourself.'

  Willow Smith

  Mom, Being Yourself, People

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

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• A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Reality, Boredom, Needs

  "Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, trans. by E. Payne, Vol. 1, p. 345, 1974.

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• An exotic and irrational entertainment, which has been always combated, and always has prevailed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Exotic, Irrational, Has Beens

  'The Lives of the English Poets' (1779-81) 'Hughes'

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• I can't get past the fact that food is coming out of my wife's breasts. What was once essentially an entertainment center has now become a juice bar.

  Paul Reiser

  Past, Wife, Bars

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• The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free from love.

  Karl Kraus

  Art, Three, Opinion

  "In These Great Times". Book by Karl Kraus, translated by Harry Zohn, p. 74, 1976.

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• Rollerball is an incoherent mess, a jumble of footage in search of plot, meaning, rhythm and sense. There are bright colors and quick movement on the screen, which we can watch as a visual pattern that, in entertainment value, falls somewhere between a kaleidoscope and a lava lamp.

  Roger Ebert

  Fall, Color, Kaleidoscope

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Your Movie Sucks”, p.241, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The drama of the sky dance is enacted nightly on hundreds of farms, the owners of which sigh for entertainment, but harbor the illusion that it is to be sought in theaters. They live on the land, but not by the land.

  Aldo Leopold

  Drama, Land, Sky

  Aldo Leopold (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.64, Oxford University Press

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• I never wanted to end up in entertainment; that wasn't the goal.

  Lauren Conrad

  Goal, Ends, Wanted

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• If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it.

  Noel Coward

  Philosophy, Political Opinions, Wish

  "A Talent to Amuse". Book by Sheridan Morley, 1985.

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• Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.

  L. Frank Baum

  Children, Morality, Wonder

  BookCaps, L. Frank Baum (2016). “The Complete Wizard of Oz (Includes Encyclopedia of Oz and Biography of L. Frank Baum)”, p.86, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I have found that lived out, the hardest place to be a Christian is to be in a nice prosperous country with a lot of entertainment options because there's so many distractions.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Country, Nice

  "Interview: Philip Yancey on U.S. Christianity, Faith That Matters". Interview with Lillian Kwon, www.christianpost.com. October 02, 2010.

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• I would say my being disheartened has more to do with American culture than anything else. We are becoming a very shallow culture. My goodness, the celebrity ethos has taken over completely. Turn on the television and you see that over and over. There's very little substance. And so, everything gets shorter. Everything is entertainment oriented. Our churches reflect that. A thirty-five minute sermon without a Power Point or video clips is rare these days. That's not true in other countries so much.

  Philip Yancey

  Country, Taken, Ethos

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• Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.

  John Arbuthnot

  Men, Vices, May

  George Atherton Aitken, John Arbuthnot (1892). “The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D.: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians”

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• Entertainment is all right, but entertainment with an idea behind it is much more important.

  Gregory Peck

  Ideas, Important, Behinds

  "Gregory Peck: A Charmed Life". Book by Lynn Haney, p. 148, 2003.

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• I'm not scared of doing movies that are just about entertainment. I'm not scared of doing movies that are really challenging and cover difficult terrain. I just want good experiences and I want to challenge myself and I want to just keep learning, as an actor.

  Joel Edgerton

  Challenges, Actors, Want

  "Exclusive: Joel Edgerton Talks THE THING, THE GREAT GATSBY, and Kathryn Bigelow’s Osama Bin Laden Project". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 25, 2011.

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• Rule No. 1 is you can't be fake. If you're fake, you become a gimmick and you're selling a gimmick; a little gimmick is cool, this is entertainment. But when you base your stuff on mostly real stuff, you never run out of it because every day is a different adventure.

  Nas

  Running, Real, Adventure

  "Q&A: With 4 nods, rapper Nas aims for Grammy gold". Interview with Mesfin Fekadu, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. January 9, 2013.

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• I dont have ulcers, I give them

  Harry Cohn

  Art, Giving, Ulcers

  Quoted in Philip French, The Movie Moguls (1969).

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