#entertaining

I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing. ↗

— Al Spalding

#actor #ball #ball player #could #doing

My family isn't really all that different from anyone else's. Well, maybe they're a bit more entertaining. ↗

— David Sedaris

#bit #different #else #entertaining #family

Your baby only needs a lot of light at night if he's reading or he's entertaining guests. ↗

— Lawrence Kutner

#entertaining #guests #light #lot #needs

The most entertaining songs don't always come from a nice place. In songs where I think I'm being really sensitive, they seem quite boring actually. I've found that the songs that come out of nastier, more misanthropic places are better. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#always #being #better #boring #come

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right. ↗

— Brian Eno

#art #doing #entertaining #feel #feel good

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. ↗

— David Viscott

#diversions #empty #entertaining #fill #life

Robert Altman's 'Nashville' is my all-time favorite film because it covers all the bases - it's original, moving, and has something to say, but also funny and incredibly entertaining. ↗

— Douglas Wood

#also #altman #bases #because #covers

As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen. ↗

— Marvin Hamlisch

#calming #composer #desire #down #energy

I want to get up there and tell entertaining stories but that are also to a certain extent clean. ↗

— Jon Heder

#certain #certain extent #clean #entertaining #extent

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long. ↗

— Louise Brown

#could #entertaining #fear #i #long