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I really believe at the end of the day, regardless of how noble you are or how patriotic the film might be, it has to serve as entertainment in order for your audiences to come into the theatre and watch it. Otherwise, audiences will wait and see it a few months later when it is premiered on television.

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

To fund major cultural efforts, we must not rely alone on government and foundation patronage; if the farmer can spend for beer, he can pay for good entertainment which he can understand, which he can identify with and which will fortify his spirit.

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.

I do a film if it interests me, has a connect with the audience and some entertainment value. The rest doesn't matter.

There are three capitals of entertainment in the world: Las Vegas, New York and London. So far the only one I truly conquered is Vegas. New York and London are still on my checklist.

I need that on stage. I need a burst of life. That's entertainment for me.

Providing new means of entertainment is the important thing.

The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry.

This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they're in the kitchen cooking. So it's understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

Without writers, none of the entertainment would exist. It starts with writers. Writers are the most important piece of the entire puzzle.

The thing that makes a great genre movie is one that's not just entertainment, not just horror or sci-fi or whatever. The ones I love are the genre pictures with some subversive message underlying it all.

A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

I think a lot of food shows, especially when we started 'Good Eats' back in the late '90s, they were still really about food. 'Good Eats' isn't about food, it's about entertainment. If, however, we can virally infect you with knowledge or interest, then all the better.

The focus of entertainment is taking away from what the public needs as news. I think investigative journalism will always be important and always find its way, be it on the Internet or wherever.

Entertainment history is now the main source of supposedly historical knowledge for more and more people, but 'histo-tainment' is superficial and lacks all context.

They just wanted to show the entertainment world that we're vulnerable.

Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

The entertainment industry and my place in it is a place where you burn brightly for as long as you can.

My brother Cody is 19. He wants to stay out of the limelight and become a lawyer. I want him to be an entertainment lawyer, so he can help me out!

Youngsters are the most discerning audience. They want entertainment, they want issues.

For more than two decades, Barry Diller has been among the most respected - and feared - figures in the entertainment industry.

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.

On telly, there's been a move towards entertainment - with some very high-powered, fast-moving dramas. Then we have the Internet, where we get our information but it's all in bite-size pieces. I think the documentary, as a form, actually speaks to what's missing.

I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

Football is entertainment in which the audience is expected to delight in gladiatorial action that a growing portion of the audience knows may cause the players degenerative brain disease.

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business.

I was experiencing all the success the entertainment industry has to offer, but I knew there had to be something more. It was sort of through that God prepared me to hear about His great plan.

I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.

Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.

Ads need to be little pieces of entertainment.

We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.

Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.

I wouldn't tell you anything about anybody I cared about because it becomes entertainment for other people, and it sort of just cheapens everything in your life. I would never tell you if I was dating anybody.

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.

'Frankenstein' did not invent the fear of science; the novel found its audience because it dramatized anxieties that already existed. Although popular entertainment can, over the long run, shape public perceptions, it becomes popular in the first place only if it addresses preexisting hopes, fears, and fascinations.

I think I'd like to be a lion tamer, actually. That - that would provide the most audience entertainment if something went really badly.

Bravo's 'Real Housewives' series isn't just entertainment for devoted fans like me - it's an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion.

I never wanted to end up in entertainment; that wasn't the goal.

I've discovered on this journey in the entertainment industry that, especially as a girl, woman... it's really important to try to create your own opportunities.

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

Performers have the right to say what they want to, and anyone paying money has the right to accept or reject the art and entertainment that's available.

I've been able to watch and to weather a lot of different periods in entertainment, politics and life.

The post-game concert series is a tremendous additional entertainment feature for Florida Pit Bulls games,

We are providing a stage where everyone can participate and everyone can be seen. We see ourselves as a combination of America's Funniest Home Videos and Entertainment Tonight.

We've always been huge fans of Maria and believe she has the skills, attitude and style that fits 'Access Hollywood' perfectly. She's current, a unique talent, someone that cuts through, and definitely stands out in a crowd. We could not be more pleased with Maria joining the most credible entertainment news magazine in the world.

We are addressing the demands of consumers who want the latest technology to provide the best entertainment experience.

We're interested in providing something for people of all types and ages. It's going to be family-friendly, and there'll be entertainment between each inning.

We're in discussions with retailers in the upscale category, including traditional department stores, entertainment companies and restaurants.

We're in a point in life that we can have entertainment anywhere --- at any time. We're so incredibly lucky to be in an industry that touches people in so many ways.

When you walk in that theater, you know it's entertainment, you know you have to suspend your disbelief. You're allowed greater latitude in filmed entertainment. Look at (Steven) Spielberg's new movie, Munich . It's anchored to a book (George Jonas' Vengeance ) that has largely been discredited.

We're not going to stop the show and say, 'Now we're having our Canadian moment,' ... There's no need to elevate its importance, because then we're saying that Canadian entertainment needs to be given a leg up, when that's absolutely not true.

Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.

Sports, music, movies - basically, fans of any form of entertainment don't do a resume analysis before picking their favorite.

When it came to 'Binge,' it wasn't my intention to get on a little soapbox and have a teaching moment. It was more, 'Here are things that have happened to me; here's what I've learned from it. If you'd like to learn from it too, great; if you just like the entertainment aspect, that's fine too.'

We're going to see some type of portable device that offers some PDA elements but is very consumer-focused, and that means more entertainment functionality.

We're going to see a lot of companies that have been portals of entertainment become producers.

When we decided to give this reunion a go, I hadn't even listened to 'Entertainment!' in more than a decade,

When we go to see comedians or funny movies, they don't address the wall behind them; they face us. This is why a game's first job is to entertain through gameplay and secondarily through humor, drama, or other traditional entertainment devices. The humor has to be a gentleman. I mean, it needs to be squeezed in around the game.

We grow up with certain icons and certain entertainment ... and being able to share it with someone else and see it through their eyes for the first time is very satisfying,

We bought WCW because it would be great way to propel our core business, the sports entertainment genre, to new height,

With two-thirds of revenue derived from the highly volatile personal digital entertainment segment, we anticipate Creative will need to take further restructuring charges to right-size its operations.

Working with Ronnie was always a joy and were without doubt some of the best years of my career. The world of entertainment has lost a huge talent.

Working together with a variety of Intel-verified consumer electronics devices, online services and software including movies, music, photos and games, VIIV technology will help users in a new era of entertainment choices, which will be easy to use with the provided remote control and will be powered by a suite of Intel technologies, including a dual-core processor, chipset, platform software and wired networking capabilities

With new broadband video outlets dramatically changing the entertainment and communications markets, the Telecom NEXT exhibit floor brings content providers and the newest video solutions together to help network service providers make critical purchasing decisions for deploying voice, video and data services over next-generation networks.

We're introducing the show to a new generation of people who are getting their entertainment in many, many different arenas,

We're gaining cross-promotion from the entertainment outlet for this community.

We're focusing on the seamless connectivity of consumer entertainment devices.

We're focusing as much attention on software and the intellectual property that's lost in software as we are in entertainment in movies and sound on CDs and tape.

We're hoping to attract the 25-and-up demographic with relatively well-known entertainment but it doesn't always work out that way. Upstairs, we're aiming for a more mature high-end clientele that wants a premium experience.

Throughout its history, Disney has been a leader in the development of new entertainment technologies, ... Our involvement in GO Network represents a fitting addition to this legacy. With GO Network, we are bringing a new level of functionality and entertainment to the Internet.

Ultimately we want to provide people with as complete a communications and home entertainment and information system as they want, ... with one bill if they want, one number to call for customer service, and one price per month if they want it that way.

Ultimately, it will get done. If you peer into the apocalypse, there?s too much pain and chaos and consternation not to do a new (agreement). This sport is about to move into the greatest era of peace and prosperity of any entertainment form in America. Who wants to be the butcher that kills this?

I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.

I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.

I'd be curious to find out, but I don't think people in the entertainment industry are proportionally more or less serious politically than anyone in the landscaping industry.

The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.

Airline food is not intended for human consumption. It's intended as a form of in-flight entertainment, wherein the object is to guess what it is, starting with broad categories such as "mineral" and "linoleum."

The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.

Now my tapestry's unraveling.

With thousands of people pre-registered for this Mountain Dew sweepstakes, we have seen great excitement surrounding the promotion. The Xbox 360 has the potential of not only transforming the gaming experience, but the entire entertainment experience, which is why this next-generation console is an incredible prize for our consumers.

With this agreement, we will continue expanding the quality of our entertainment offerings and meet the constantly rising expectations of consumers when it comes to movies and video games.

We're still in this new digital era where the entertainment industry wants to protect ... their content, without due consideration of the consumer's right to use that content in a fair way. We need to have an open discussion as to where we should draw the line.

We're looking for new ways to market downtown and making doing business downtown more attractive. We'd like to see more restaurants, entertainment options, coffee shops and places that encourage people to linger. We need a mixture you won't find in a typical shopping center.

We've tried to make it as user and customer friendly as possible, ... I want something going on that water for that guy with the wristband. I want to give him the most entertainment I can.

We want to say thank you the only way we know how that's by playing rock 'n' roll. Any entertainment to break up the work week is great. You can forget about life, relax and have a reminder that there is an appreciation there.

We want to provide the best possible entertainment for our fans and that means creating a winning team and maximizing their chances of success.

We were trying to embrace the community on a different level of entertainment and appeal to middle-aged people who could relate to a Las Vegas-type show.

The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.

Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment

I want to be an entertainment lawyer so I'll be in the business still.

Television is the box they buried entertainment in.