#engaged

You don't know what someone's going to walk away from a movie with, but you hope it's something positive, but if nothing, you want them most basically to be entertained and engaged. That's your job. But you also hope to give them something to chew on or maybe some insight into the human existence, you hope a little bit. Not to sound too lofty. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#away #basically #bit #chew #engaged

We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date. ↗

— Michael W. Smith

#date #engaged #first #three-and-a-half #weeks

The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication. ↗

— Patti Smith

#coming #communication #engaged #hollywood #materialistic

The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#background #came #deeper #earth #effect

Israel has its attractions. It's the most dramatic country in the world. Everybody's engaged. Everybody argues. When I leave Israel, I get a little bit bored, you know? ↗

— Shimon Peres

#bit #bored #country #dramatic #engaged

We pay for the navy, and we have no commerce for the navy to protect; we pay for the army, and we loathe and execrate the work upon which it has been engaged. ↗

— John Edward Redmond

#been #commerce #engaged #loathe #navy

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act. ↗

— James Agate

#cannot #conceal #director #engaged #fact

I love books where I can't wait to turn every page, songs that grab me the first time I hear them, and films that make me totally forget about the craft because I am totally engaged in the story. ↗

— John Grooters

#forget #grab #story #love

When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#engaged #horizons #i #open #struggle

It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#children #engaged #estimated #exploitative #fifty