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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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.
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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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I wanna get on TV and just let loose. But can't, but it's cool for Tom Green to hump a dead moose.
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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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I had a friend who had been teaching music for a long time, and he knew a bunch of teachers, so I just put up the money and started a school.
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The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks.... And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human soul.
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I love teaching poetry writing. Students come into the class thinking poetry has to be one way, then leave having created pieces that are wholly original, that have - quite literally - never been made before.
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When people move from one extreme set of views to embrace another equally batty picture of the world, they expect us to applaud their choice, as if the fact that they have rejected one form of nuttiness somehow validates the screwball views they hold now.
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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.
