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Quotes About Entertain

I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
None of us need ever fear that we don't have an active imagination, because imagination is mostly a willingness to entertain a strange idea now and then.
~ Bert Dodson, Keys to Drawing
Don't give a speech. Put on a show.
~ Paul Arden
I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
~ Alexander Pushkin
I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.
~ Elvis Presley
I cannot have a concept of football where everything is based on the opposition. We have to dictate the game, we have to be the ones taking the initiative, and we have to entertain the people coming to watch us.
~ Mikel Arteta
When I was in college and reading music and doing ear training, I was a little more advanced than the other people in my choir classes. So to entertain myself and kind of annoy the friends around me, I would sing just under the pitch or just above the pitch.
~ Colleen Ballinger
You have to play football to entertain the fans.
~ Louis van Gaal
Some players out there don't really interact with the crowd - they're really serious - but I think it's part of my personality as well. I go out there, and I like to entertain. I like to put on a bit of a show.
~ Nick Kyrgios
I just focus on trying to please and entertain those who have faith in my talent.
~ Arnel Pineda
I aim to please. I'm nothing if not a vaudevillian.
~ Craig Ferguson
Now, all writing - all the arts - are a form of 'Pay attention to me,' but there's also the flip side. Like, I want to give something. Let me entertain you, let me amuse you, let me try to please you with this thing I've made. And then pay attention to me.
~ Jonathan Ames
I work to please my audience.
~ Jerry Lee Lewis
I'm a fan pleaser.
~ Tony Ferguson
I like to entertain at home, to live beautifully but comfortably.
~ Aerin Lauder
Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.
~ Anne Hutchinson
It's a delightful thing to do, to entertain kids. They're a completely different audience because of their total lack of irony. You're always after a total suspension of disbelief, but the only people you can really achieve it with is children.
~ John Lithgow
How my parents are in the kitchen is a good indicator of their parenting style. Mum cooks for sustenance, wants to get in and out, the job done quickly. My Dad wants to prance around in the kitchen, create a curry - and a mess - and entertain everyone.
~ Nadiya Hussain
I have a grand piano in my living room, can you imagine the absurdity? I don't even play. Perhaps they know I might entertain dear Noël." She spoke of her friend Noël Coward.
~ Rhys Bowen
Books give us pleasure not because they make us comfortable, though some good ones may, but because they entertain us, they make us laugh, they make us cry; they inform, persuade, disturb, convince, seduce us; they make us think, speculate, see - and we recognize what we see as true, not as the truth but as a truth in the writer's fabulous construction that corresponds to what we have observed in ourselves, or others, or in the world at large, or can conceive of observing.
~ William McPherson
Your thoughts are too dull to entertain.
~ William Peter Blatty
See, your guests approach. Address yourself to entertain them sprightly, And let's be red with mirth.
~ William Shakespeare
Who are my readers? How do I reach them? What are their motivations? What are the problems I can help them solve? How can I entertain them and inform them at the same time? What content will compel them to purchase what I have to offer? To be successful, you need to do the same thing.
~ David Meerman Scott
The calling of an author is more than just to entertain, but also to share ones experiences with the world.
~ M.J. Stoddard