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Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader.

Super Mario Bros. is equivalent to the Big Bang of our gaming universe. If it were not for this blindingly spectacular creation, digital entertainment as we know it today would not exist.

Super confident people with no problems and great marriages and great parenting are not good entertainment.

Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.

Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.

Television. An advanced technical method of stopping people from making their own entertainment.

Television is a very writer-driven business, and it's one of the few parts of entertainment where writers are treated with respect, only because they need you. If they didn't have to treat you with respect, they would be happy to dismiss you.

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.

That's how it always is in the entertainment industry, your feet are always treading Jello.

That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it.

That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

The arts are not for the privileged few, but for the many. Their place is not on the periphery of daily life, but at its center. They should function not merely as another form of entertainment but, rather, should contribute significantly to our well being and happiness.

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

The art of longing's over, and it's never coming back.

Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.

The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

The best entertainment speaks to the human condition in an honest way.

The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment.

The blacklist against people in the entertainment industry that show up for [Donald] Trump is worse than that blacklist you heard of in Hollywood back in the forties and fifties.

The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.

The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue.

The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.

The crazy thing about the entertainment industry now is that you can't do just one thing. If you're focusing in on just one thing you're pretty much doomed.

The Earthlings behaved at all times as though there were a big eye in the sky—as though that big eye were ravenous for entertainment.

The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of the metropolis.

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.

The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.

The entertainment industry is pretty nuts, and having had that experience outside of it and going to university has really made a big difference. It's important to me to feel like I have my own life.

The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.

The entertainment industry and my place in it is a place where you burn brightly for as long as you can.

The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.

The entertainment is in the presentation.

The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.

The entertainment business is to business what plastic flowers are to flowers.

The entertainment industry as a whole has given more thought to the pollution of rivers than it has to the pollution of minds.

The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.

The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up.

The fans of our industry are extremely savvy. At the end of the day, they understand the business is a work. It's entertainment, nothing more.

The good Samaritan, he's getting dressed, he's getting ready for the show. He's going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row.

The hardest gig there is in entertainment is to be the lead in an hour show, especially if it's a show that's blood and guts and fighting. It's rough. I love to work, but to do something different is really exciting.

The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out.

The Internet is all about accessing entertainment. Realistically, 50 to 80 percent of all traffic is people downloading stuff for free. If you can turn that huge market share into something that you can monetize, even if it is just with ads, you will end up making more money than with all other revenue streams combined.

The key to contentedness is not the absence of work; neither is it to cap each day with the witless abandon of hollow entertainment, but to fill your days with that which fills your life with meaning.

The Internet is the greatest thing that ever happened to the entertainment industry.

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

The main thing I want to do, is to make our website the most entertaining website there is on the Internet. I want it to be the premiere site for entertainment, for communication, and for fun.

The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.