#entertain

When entertainment was begun, during the Depression, it was supposed to take people's minds off reality. People could sing, dance, act or do anything. It was the type of entertainment that was available. ↗

— Tina Yothers

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I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

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I've made a lot of people a lot of money, and I've made a lot of people really happy. I've entertained millions and millions of people. ↗

— Steve Guttenberg

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Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another. ↗

— Gary Gygax

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So our films had a lot more to them than entertainment value, and I'm glad that a lot of people recognize that now. People realize now the value of them as educational. ↗

— Ray Harryhausen

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I always said I was never gonna be an entertainer, Suicide was never supposed to be entertainment. ↗

— Alan Vega

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You know, being an entertainer is partly being on the road, and a lot of your songs come from the road. ↗

— Mel Tillis

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I just want to entertain. ↗

— Carmen Electra

#i #just #want

I haven't traditionally been a family entertainer. ↗

— David Walliams

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If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It's very much a competition for the entertainment dollar, and that's never been more clearly evident than in today's NBA game. ↗

— Julius Erving

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