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(211 votes)   Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.

Erica Jong
1942-, American Author

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(120 votes)   Americans don't spend billions for entertainment. They spend it in search of entertainment.

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(115 votes)   The Miss America contest is the most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.

Gerald Early
1952-, American Author

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(103 votes)   A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(93 votes)   Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.

John Berger
1926-, British Actor, Critic

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(92 votes)   Fun can be the dessert of our lives but never its main course.

Rabbi Harold S. Kushner

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(83 votes)   The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are -- it's ''Look at me, Ma!'' It's acceptance, you know -- ''Look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma.'' And if your mother watches, you'll show off till you're exhausted; but if your mother goes, Ptshew!

Lenny Bruce
1925-1966, American Comedian

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