#entertainment

My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.' ↗

— Candace Cameron Bure

#always #big #big movie #business #dad

I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily. ↗

— Ronnie Corbett

#die #easily #entertainment #feel #gaiety

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature. ↗

— Steig Larsson

#classical #detective #detective stories #entertainment #light

One of the world's most popular entertainments is a deck of cards, which contains thirteen each of four suits, highlighted by kings, queens and jacks, who are possibly the queen's younger, more attractive boyfriends. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#cards #entertainment #queens #king

[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#briefing #entertainment #expansion #information #inspiration

As far as I'm concerned, men like you were put on this world to entertain women like me. ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#men #women #men

We're making this as entertainment. But God willing, if this show stays on and people see a woman in that office for a while, I think it will help people become more used to it. It's certainly about time that we had a few female presidents. ↗

— Geena Davis

#become #certainly #entertainment #female #few

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#example #football #form #fundamentally #i

This is the entertainment industry, so game designers have to have a creative mind and also have to be able to stand up against the marketing people at their company - otherwise they cannot be creative. There are not that many people who fit that description. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#against #also #cannot #company #creative

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#cheap #entertainment #lasting #nor #pleasure