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be entertained

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I have no need of your God-damned sympathy. I only wish to be entertained by some of your grosser reminiscences. Alexander Woollcott

You have come to earth to entertain and to be entertained. Paramahansa Yogananda

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. David Frost

You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained... I don't want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction... I can get all that at home. Peter Cook

People reserve their best thinking for their professional specialties and, next in line, for serious matters confronting the alert citizen -economics, politics, the disposal of nuclear waste, etc. The day's work done, they want to be entertained. Saul Bellow

I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it. Roger Ebert

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