Steve Burke (Stephen B. Burke) Quotes
The best businesses that all of us have in the entertainment business are cable content channels, which have a dual revenue stream.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.
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I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.
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We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.
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Entertainment has this way of resetting itself.
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Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to other forms of entertainment.
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The biggest fool to hit the big time and all I've got to do is act naturally.
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The explosion of museum exhibitions is only a mirror image of what has happened to fashion itself this millennium. With the force of technology, instant images and global participation, fashion has developed from being a passion for a few to a fascination - and an entertainment - for everybody.
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Let's stop playing with ourselves and get on with the entertainment, shall we?
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People want to see that cable companies are already taking away market share in the phone business before the phone companies can take video share.
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Comcast continues to be the best blue chip in the cable sector. The company is making all the right moves.
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I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.
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The battle with cable is here. This deal will make the new AT&T better able to compete, not just with cable and satellite but with all the new technologies that are coming at them.
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Unnamed entertainment industry moguls are now telling the New York Times that they intend never to work with Mel Gibson again. After all, how dare Mel Gibson challenge the public by producing a film that spurs public discussion, that pushes the envelope, that takes an old story to a new level. How dare Mel Gibson follow his own passion as a filmmaker. How dare he make $20 million on the opening day box office!
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Told me my tape taught them to swear. What about the make-up you allow your 12 year old daughter to wear?
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Almost everyone shuts down when science becomes too technical; you've got to infuse it with entertainment and storytelling to make it effective. From high school on, science is taught in a very dry manner, which isn't as potent.
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For entertainment, a party bears no one in as much as those who are not there.
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I've been in the entertainment industry since I was six-years-old ... As Charles Dickens says, 'It's been the best of times, the worst of times.' But I would not change my career ... While some have made deliberate attempts to hurt me, I take it in stride because I have a loving family, a strong faith and wonderful friends and fans who have, and continue, to support me.
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Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.
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Fat jokes to me are always, always hilarious, as long as they're done towards yourself.
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Just doing his part, ... He doesn't have to do more than that, you know. Direct it and get us points, but just do his part. I think one thing about Patrick is he's a real good student. I think he's smart. When you put the game plan in he has a feel for what we're doing there, so he only has to do his part. He doesn't have to make something happen by himself.
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Curiosity is a great antidote to fear.
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The best businesses that all of us have in the entertainment business are cable content channels, which have a dual revenue stream.
