Entertainment Quotes - Page 34

• The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.

  Gerald Early

  Ambition, Class, America

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• My life may be encapsulated by one of Graham Greene's "entertainments" titles: 'Loser Takes All'. Since I was thrown out of highschool for political reasons, I was free to study on my own and develop my own ways of thinking.

  Israel Gelfand

  Science, Thinking, Political

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• In the major institutions of education, government, science, and the arts, we are witnessing the imposition of a post-Christian view of life. It now dominates in motion pictures, television, and every other form of entertainment.

  D. James Kennedy

  Christian, Religious, Art

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• For many of the most powerful people in the entertainment business, hostility to organized religion goes so deep and burns so intensely that they insist on expressing that hostility, even at the risk of financial disaster.

  Michael Medved

  Christian, Religious, Powerful

  Michael Medved (1992). “Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Yet if strict criticism should till frown on our method, let candor and good humor forgive what is done to the best of our judgment, for the sake of perspicuity in the story and the delight and entertainment of our candid reader.

  Sarah Fielding

  Reading, Forgiving, Criticism

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• Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment

  Jacques Barzun

  Glorious

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• I never saw any people who appeared to live so much without amusement as the Cincinnatians.... Were it not for the churches,... Ithink there might be a general bonfire of best bonnets, for I never could discover any other use for them.

  Frances Trollope

  People, Religion, Church

  Frances Trollope (2013). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• And I guess I'm a kid at heart in that when I go for entertainment, I want to be totally transported. I want to go somewhere else; I want to encounter different things, different beings, different universes. And so I love that aspect of being able to play those things in both 'True Blood' and in 'American Horror Story.'

  Denis O'Hare

  Heart, Kids, Blood

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• I love when a TV show, or entertainment in general, makes me feel something; be it positive, be it negative, be it happiness, be it awkward, uncomfortable if it can make me feel, it's done it's job.

  Nathan Fillion

  Jobs, Tv Shows, Awkward

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• One of the principal features of my entertainment is that it contains so many things that don't have anything to do with it.

  Artemas Ward

  Enjoyment, Principal, Features

  "Artemus Ward's Lecture on the Mormons". Book edited by Edward P. Hingston, 1882.

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• I'm in the entertainment business, where you're only as good as your last show.

  Matthew Weiner

  Lasts, Shows, Entertainment Business

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

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• The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely related to today’s life.

  Matthew Weiner

  Intellectual, Lessons, Today

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• I love comics, very much, and I love being alone, but I also love the other part. I love actors, and I love filmed entertainment, and that is not something I plan to turn my back on.

  Joss Whedon

  Love Is, Actors, Turns

  "Joss Whedon" by Tasha Robinson, tv.avclub.com. August 08, 2007.

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• I think that the entertainment industry and the entertainment press tends to focus on opening weekend box office as a measure of the success of a film and I think the true success is out there in people's homes and how much they absolutely love these characters.

  John Lasseter

  Home, Character, Weekend

  "Interview: We Talk Cars 2 with John Lasseter". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• Filmmaking is essentially about entertainment, but it's amazing to realize that it has this other muscle that could actually help. Do you know what I mean? People permit entertainment to wash over them, but every once and a while, entertainment - and this is entertaining - also galvanizes something else and that would be a really good thing to have happen in this case.

  Ken Burns

  Mean, People, Would Be

  "Ken Burns and Yusef Salaam Talk THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE; Plus Burns Talks Upcoming Projects like THE ROOSEVELTS, JACKIE ROBINSON and VIETNAM". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 17, 2012.

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• We live in a world that needs entertainment. And that entertainment has to be provided by men who sweat and bleed.

  Pete Carroll

  Men, Sweat, Needs

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Beyond Brookledge may be the most incredible weekend of entertainment I've experienced in my life.

  Mark Ryden

  Weekend, May, Incredibles

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• Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn't take anything drastic. You needn't be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!

  Bette Midler

  Smart, Life Is, Gorgeous

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• The Supreme Court is expected to rule this week whether banning cross burning by groups like the Klu Klux Klan violates the first amendment. The outcome could affect the entertainment at Trent Lott's Christmas party.

  Tina Fey

  Party, Groups, Burning

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• Bind to you friends of your own kind, friends who will encourage you, stand with you, live as you desire to live, who will enjoy the same kind of entertainment, and who will resist the evil that you determine to resist.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Evil, Desire, Kind

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• I think that the Internet is going to effect the most profound change on the entertainment industries combined. And we're all gonna be tuning into the most popular Internet show in the world, which will be coming from some place in Des Moines. We're all gonna lose our jobs. We're all gonna be on the Internet trying to find an audience.

  Steven Spielberg

  Jobs, Thinking, Profound

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

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• You have but little more to do than throw up your cap for entertainment these American days.... Farmers' sons will stare by the hour to see a juggler draw ribbons from his throat, though he tells them it is all deception. Surely, men love darkness rather than light.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Son, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Natural History Essays”, p.92, Gibbs Smith

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• Certainly, we do not need to be soothed and entertained always like children. He who resorts to the easy novel, because he is languid, does no better than if he took a nap.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Children, Reading, Naps

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.67, Xist Publishing

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• Director Michelle MacLaren is the John Cage of this malevolent silence, able to wield it as precisely as a pointillist with a paintbrush. And with 'To'hajiilee,' the final episode of Breaking Bad she'll ever direct, she has painted her masterpiece. Under the unblinking eye of her relentless camera, this was television not as entertainment but as endurance. It was agonizing, nauseating, unbearable. I loved every minute but hated every second. I couldn't wait for it to be over but I never wanted it to end. And I especially never wanted it to end like that.

  Andy Greenwald

  Eye, Waiting, Silence

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• In those days, when my hands were much employed, I read but little, but the least scraps of paper which lay on the ground, my holder, or tablecloth, afforded me as much entertainment, in fact answered the same purpose as the Iliad.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reading, Hands, Purpose

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.177, Penguin

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