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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.

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

When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.

When I was young, my parents made me listen to old music and watch Jimmy Durante. I fell in love with the whole mystique of acting and entertainment.

We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren't virgins, whether we were or not.

We were working in entertainment, in the music industry, with popular music, it was important, but it was something that we also felt was a responsibility.

What am I unbiased about? Let's see. I don't think about being unbiased, at all. With the entertainment industry, there was a point at which I felt like I had to be not only pro-myself but anti-others.

What we do is entertainment. They wouldn't go to Tom Cruise and ask if his movies are fake. We provide entertainment. I would rather someone tell me I am not entertaining than ask if what we do is fake.

When I got into the film world, I got sucked into the secular aspect of the entertainment field and I really drifted away from my faith. Its amazing...as successful as I was as an actor, and the money and the fame, there was still something missing.

When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.

When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.

When Viv Richards retired I thought it was end of entertainment. But then came Sehwag,the King of entertainment!

When I worked for Entertainment Tonight I got to emcee Paul McCartneys press conference.

When my dad was young he shot marbles. When I was young I played Marble Madness on my Nintendo Entertainment System.

Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can't dress trashy 'til you spend a lot of money.

Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments.

When you have a vision, you have to see it through, and you can make anything happen. You really can, especially in this [entertainment ] industry.

Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.

Working in the entertainment industry exposes me to every current cosmetic fad.

With usenet gone, we just don't teach our kids entertainment-level hyperbole any more.

When you want to have entertainment, it must be a waste of time. I don't like that. I don't like improvisation being pointless.

Writers are idiots with Underwoods.

World class is a phrase used by provincial cities and second-rate entertainment events, as well as a wide variety of insecure individuals, to assert that they are not provincial or second-rate, thereby confirming that they are.

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

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

You can never really justify wages in the entertainment business, but it is what it is.

You have to be a mindful eater. There has to be intention in what you do in your life if youre going to be happy and authentic. Food isnt supposed to be entertainment in the way that your kids, your work, and your relationship are.

You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.

Youngsters are the most discerning audience. They want entertainment, they want issues.

You look at someone like Beyoncé singing Single Ladies, when we all know she's married. Some of it is just for entertainment.

You walk into a retail store, whatever it is, and if there's a sense of entertainment and excitement and electricity, you wanna be there.

You know, the Super Bowl is so fresh that every single commercial is even on, you know, some next-level entertainment.

A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour.

Absorption in ease and entertainment is a sure sign of dissipation and decline.

You're on stage and because stand-up comedy is one of the few meritocracies in the entertainment industry, there's some kind of - at least for me, there's some kind of idea of control.

Ada kalanya dalam hidup, sejenak melupakan kepedihan dan habiskan waktu untuk bertingkah konyol, tertawa, serta lupakan sejenak berlaku "normal".

A harmonised life is one, where everything is so balanced that there is no craving for anything. You can love work, entertainment and leisure by harmonising them with each other.

A happy childhood can fortify one against the ravages of life, and part of that happiness is found in books, which become our constant companions for the rest of our lives.

A heart favours love, a head favours work, a heart and head both favours hobby.

A healthy man watched what he ate. An intelligent man watched what he watched.

Ah! good Sir! no Whores before Dinner, I beseech you." [Love's Last Shift]

All transgressions begin with sinful thinking . . . guard against the pictures of lewdness and sensuality that Satan flashes upon the screen of your imagination, select with care the books you read, choose discerningly the kind of entertainment you attend, the kind of associates with whom you mingle, and the kind of environment in which you place yourself.

A magician reveals himself not only by the magic he presents but also by the respect and entertainment he gives to his audience.

A man may follow vanity as truly in the counting-house as in the theatre. If he be spending his life in amassing wealth, he passes his days in a vain show.

Amusement and annoyance are, perhaps, both forms of denial.

And, in the end, what will the students have learned? They will, to be sure, have learned something about whales, perhaps about navigation and map reading, most of which they could have learned just as well by other means. Mainly, they will have learned that learning is a form of entertainment or, more precisely, that anything worth learning can take the form of an entertainment, and ought to.

... And I wondered if we had disappointed God so much, that he wrote us off as pets, just alive to entertain.

And I was a Child again, watching the bright World. But the Spell broke when at this Juncture some Gallants jumped from the Pitt onto the Stage and behaved as so many Merry-Andrews among the Actors, which reduced all to Confusion. I laugh'd with them also, for I like to make Merry among the Fallen and there is pleasure to be had in the Observation of the Deformity of Things. Thus when the Play resumed after the Disturbance, it was only to excite my Ridicule with its painted Fictions, wicked Hypocrisies and villainous Customs, all depicted with a little pert Jingle of Words and a rambling kind of Mirth to make the Insipidnesse and Sterility pass. There was no pleasure in seeing it, and nothing to burden the Memory after: like a voluntarie before a Lesson it was absolutely forgotten, nothing to be remembered or repeated.

A novel is a writer's rant disguised as entertainment...