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“Amongst black people, you have always heard it said that once a black man reaches a certain level, especially if you are an entertainer, you get a white trophy woman. I didn't make that up.”

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Author:Spike Lee

“I never tell an audience what they can expect. I never have and I never will. I'm an entertainer for 75 years.”

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Author:Jerry Lewis

“I am positive - determined to move forward with my life, bring up my babies, and do the best job I can as a mother, entertainer, and person.”

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Author:Jennifer Lopez

“But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art.”

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Author:Javier Bardem

“I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.”

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Book:Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter

Source: Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter

“I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.”

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Author:Steve Martin

“Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself.”

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Author:Wentworth Miller

“Being an entertainer includes knowing how to connect with an audience.”

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Author:Joe Nichols

“I'm an entertainer. I get up on stage and I try to make people enjoy my music, and that political arena - I'm going to stay out of it, right out.”

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Author:Donny Osmond

“I think every entertainer's had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can't remember everything all the time, and especially if you're having hard times personally, things going on that you - you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.”

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Author:Dolly Parton

“When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.”

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Author:Natalie Portman

“I can't go into a bar anywhere without someone starting to play 'the Entertainer'.”

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Author:Robert Redford

“I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.”

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Author:Ann Richards

“I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics.”

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Author:Kid Rock

“I take cabs if I need to get somewhere or I take car service. I don't drive, I wouldn't mind riding a bike... People think that because you become an entertainer you gotta have this rock star thug image. I'm an artist, man. I'm going to live like an artist.”

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Author:ASAP Rocky

“In every language you can imagine I've had people say 'Appetite For Destruction' is the soundtrack to their lives. I don't think you could say something nicer to an entertainer or performer - can't get more respectful.”

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Author:Steven Adler

“As I get into it more, I want to grow as an artist, as an entertainer, and basically perfect my craft.”

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Author:Justin Bieber

“I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.”

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Author:William Shatner

“I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer.”

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Author:Jessica Simpson

“I like Daughtry, I like Nickelback, I like Dave Matthews. I like Beyonce - she's a really good entertainer.”

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Author:Grace Slick

“People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.”

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Author:Cate Blanchett

“What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.”

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Author:James Taylor

“The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.”

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Book:Assorted Prose

Source: Assorted Prose

“I haven't traditionally been a family entertainer.”

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Author:David Walliams

“I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.”

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Author:Rachel Weisz

“I'm an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don't get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile.”

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Author:Bryan White

“I'm a born entertainer. When I open the fridge door and the light goes on, I burst into song.”

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Author:Robbie Williams

“I think that Michael Jackson, just as an entertainer, as a figure who embodies the contradictions of Black identity, and the possibilities of R&B music in the '70s and '80s will continue to be one of the most recognized and formidable human beings that we've ever produced in our tradition.”

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Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“I think there's no question that Michael Jackson was the foremost entertainer of his generation; perhaps of all time, arguably, taking the skills of a Sammy Davis, Jr., bringing together the street dance of African American urban culture, joining them to the politics of dance, of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly on that sphere alone.”

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Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“Obviously, Jay-Z is one of the greatest entertainers of the world today. Not only is he a remarkable rhetorical genius, he's also a man of deep sympathy and empathy for those who are lost and vulnerable, but especially under-educated youth of all cultures and stripes.”

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Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage.”

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Author:David Bowie

“I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can.”

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Author:Christina Aguilera

“Entertainers wrongly assume that their fame, money, and influence arise from broad knowledge rather than natural talent, looks, or mastery of a narrow skill.”

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Author:Victor Davis Hanson

“An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.”

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Author:Marlon Brando

“Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.”

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Author:Julie Burchill

“There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose "story" "plot" "continuity"... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer.”

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Book:Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader

Source: Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader

“I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.”

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Author:Aaliyah

“I know a lot of famous people didn't do well at school, like James Brown; he dropped out in fifth grade to be an entertainer, I respect that... but that's not going to be me. I'm not going to be able to do anything but work as hard as possible all the time and compete with everyone I know all the time to make it.”

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Author:Ned Vizzini

“Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.”

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Book:Best of Sydney J. Harris

Source: Best of Sydney J. Harris

“No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who's always had everything work out for them with zero struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don't exist.”

Source: The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)

“An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.”

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Author:Artie Shaw

“A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.”

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Author:Anton Chekhov

“I really don't think of myself as a singer. I think of myself as an entertainer, and the best place I do it is onstage.”

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Author:Cher

“"The Entertainer" He did it all.”

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Author:Sammy Davis, Jr.

“A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an ordinary reporter. What would you say if a newspaper reporter, because of his fastidiousness or from a wish to give pleasure to his readers, were to describe only honest mayors, high-minded ladies, and virtuous railroad contractors.”

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Author:Anton Chekhov

“You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.”

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Author:Josephine Baker

“A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.”

“I am simply the very best sports entertainer”

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Author:Shawn Michaels

“I think people have an idea in their heads about entertainers[and] celebrities. I think they feel like their lives are so perfect, and it's really hard to go through painful experiences when you are in the public eye because it's hard to have closure.”

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Author:Beyonce Knowles

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