#entertainment

My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#music

Audiences see personalities on shows interacting with wild animals as if they were not dangerous or, at the other extreme, provoking them to give viewers an adrenaline rush. Mostly, the animals just want to be left alone, so it’s not surprising that these entertainers are seriously hurt or even killed on rare occasions. On one level, it’s that very possibility the shows are selling. ↗

— Chris Palmer

#entertainment #television #tv #wildlife #movies

You have to look also to the media, where you have a vast majority of the loudest and most influential political voices in America media from people who came from the entertainment world. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#america #came #entertainment #entertainment world #influential

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#entertainment #life #objects #people #phenomenon

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

— Fiona Apple

#entertainment #i #know #mix #politics

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

— Dan Aykroyd

#business #end-all #entertainment #entertainment business #me

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#fiction #film #imaginations #intensely #large

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it. ↗

— David Antin

#based #comes #current #current form #entertainment

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#consumed #dish #entertainment #food #forgotten

I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don't know what I'm going to come at you with. ↗

— Jack Black

#arsenal #come #entertainment #going #i