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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."
"The entertainment industry and my place in it is a place where you burn brightly for as long as you can."
"I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language."
"He was an author whose works were so well known as to be almost confidential."
"Don’t just stand there, let’s get to it, Strike a pose, there’s nothing to it..."
"We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want."
"We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment."
"Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?"
"I never wanted to end up in entertainment; that wasn't the goal."
"We all know the huge problem there is with entertainment in general leaving out women. Especially as actors, we know there are fewer great parts for women."
"Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison."
"Journalism is the entertainment business."
"More than ever, movies reveal themselves as healing, as helpful, as encouraging, as escapist - anything that makes someone get through their day in these times. It's the best form of entertainment, and it's still arguably the most inexpensive form of entertainment."
"I'm not setting 'Jericho' up to be anything other than what it is, which is, you know, a piece of good, well thought-out, well put-together TV and entertainment."
"Life is not entertainment. Life is not distraction."
"[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given."
"Unfortunately most easily-digested entertainment has as much actual content as a Spongebob Squarepants episode, so the trick is to try to fit actual nourishing content into enjoyable entertainment."
"Being rich and famous seems to have its ups and downs. That's the price you pay for being troubadours and clowns."
"Never did I think that I became family entertainment."
"Entertainment is like any other major industry; it's cold, big business. The business end wants to know one thing: Can you do the job? If you can, you're in, you're made; if you can't, you're out."
