#entertainment

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written. ↗

— Mark Strand

#comforts #culture #entertainment #forms #given

I'd like to do a television show that is encouraging, useful, and clean, and I'd like to go up against Entertainment Tonight and beat it. ↗

— John Tesh

#beat #clean #encouraging #entertainment #go

I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me. ↗

— Jack Brickhouse

#dry #entertainment #first #foremost #i

The world is a stage, the stage is a world of entertainment. ↗

— Howard Dietz

#stage #world

KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#kiss #las #las vegas #mask #musician

Don't be cool. Like everything. ↗

— Shaky Kane

#entertainment #perception #taste #wisdom #art

We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

#media #news #show-business #television #business

In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy. ↗

— Johnny Carson

#entertainment #funny #hollywood #humor #insanity

In our modern world, this elemental quality of storytelling is denied. We live today in a world in which everything has its place and function and nothing is left out of place. Storytelling is thus at a discount and like everything else in a world ruled by the laws of exchange value, literature is required to submit itself to the requirements of the market and must learn, like any other commodity, to adapt and serve needs that lie outside of itself and its concrete value. It is forced to stand not for itself but for an ideological cause of one sort or another, whether it be political, social or literary. It cannot exist for itself: like everything else it has to be justified. And for this very reason the power of storytelling is automatically devalued. Literature is reduced to the status of complimentary utilitarian functions: as a pastime to provide distraction and entertainment, or as a heightened activity that would claim to explore 'great truths' about the human condition. ↗

— Michael Richardson

#commodity #entertainment #literature #stories #surrealism

Well, you know, in this crazy world of entertainment, I would say if you have a dream, you have to pursue it. ↗

— Caprice Bourret

#crazy world #dream #entertainment #i #know