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I'd always been insecure. Being the fourth of five kids means attention is divided five ways, and to do this equally is impossible. I grew up feeling like the little orphan in the family, the one who didn't fit in.
Suzi Quatro
Family
Impossible
Feeling
Ways
Kids
Insecure
Divided
Attention
Like
Equally
Always
Been
Fit
Up
Five
Being
Grew
Little
Means
Who
Orphan
Fourth
I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.
Suzy Bogguss
Past
Record
Give
More
Songs
Written
Attention
Ideas
Sure
Lot
Than
Get
Trying
In The Past
Translated
Really
Special
Ever
Right
Celebrities may get all the attention in the glossies, but when athletes set an example, their words are far-reaching - deep into the inner cities, across Mid-western farmlands, up and down coasts.
Suzy Shuster
Words
Example
Down
Cities
Athletes
Attention
Up
Up And Down
Celebrities
Get
May
Across
Deep
Inner
Set
I'm just a really shy person. I don't gravitate towards attention, so for someone like me to have as much attention as I have is bizarre.
Syd
Me
Bizarre
Someone
Attention
Towards
Like
Person
Just
Much
Much Attention
Really
Gravitate
Shy
Shy Person
People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of people.
Sydney Schanberg
People
National
Pay
Pay Attention
Percentage
Attention
New
Issues
Huge
York
New York
I cannot say yes to too many things. I am better off giving attention to one thing at a time.
Tabu
Time
Better
Giving
Too
Say
One Thing
Better Off
Attention
Am
Off
Yes
Cannot
Many
Thing
Things
Many classrooms are overcrowded, and splitting the class into smaller groups gives the children more one on one attention.
Tamra Davis
Class
One-On-One
More
Classrooms
Gives
Splitting
Smaller
Attention
Overcrowded
Children
Many
Groups
I feel 'proud' whenever I feel that I've worked on something for a certain amount of time with a certain amount of attention. I'm not sure if I think in terms of 'pride' though.
Tao Lin
Time
Pride
Think
Though
Something
Attention
Feel
Terms
Sure
Proud
Whenever
Worked
Certain
Amount
Our bodies and our minds have their own timing that pay little attention to our cerebral desires. We can't force or expect things to change as fast as we want, but when we put our efforts in the direction of our intention and drop everything else like snow falling, things unfold with ease.
Tara Stiles
Change
Drop
Timing
Own
Pay
Else
Our
Everything
Minds
Everything Else
Ease
Direction
Put
Attention
Like
Force
Falling
Expect
Efforts
Snow
Intention
Unfold
Want
Little
Little Attention
Cerebral
Bodies
Fast
Things
Desires
Over-working gets less done. We all have experienced this. We can push ourselves to exhaustion, but things get done with less attention, and our bodies eventually break down.
Tara Stiles
Down
Our
Ourselves
Push
Attention
Exhaustion
Get
Gets
Done
Experienced
Break
Bodies
Less
Eventually
Things
Paying attention to what we allow ourselves to pay attention to is a tricky thing. It's like being in two places at once but completely worth the discipline. We can react mindlessly or respond mindfully. It's up to us.
Tara Stiles
Worth
Discipline
Pay
Pay Attention
Once
Respond
Ourselves
Tricky
Allow
Attention
Like
React
Up
Being
Places
Us
Paying
Thing
Two
When we turn on our observation capabilities, we become much more in the moment and much more powerful. Psychic powers have been known to develop from consistent practice of paying attention. It's available to us all. It's all in what we choose to practice.
Tara Stiles
Psychic
Practice
Become
Our
Consistent
More
Develop
Observation
Attention
Powerful
Powers
Known
Been
Available
Capabilities
Turn
Turn-On
Us
Much
Choose
Paying
Moment
Meditation is practical, simple, and very useful. Taking even 30 seconds to rest your attention on your breath instead of following the cycle of your thoughts can bring you back to you in a heart beat.
Tara Stiles
Thoughts
You
Heart
Simple
Rest
Breath
Meditation
Seconds
Back
Following
Beat
Instead
Taking
Attention
Practical
Very
Cycle
Your
Useful
Even
Bring
When the #MeToo movement started and went viral, it was everyday people all around the world. The fact that the stories continue to be about famous white women has everything to do with who the media places attention on.
Tarana Burke
Women
People
World
White
Viral
Everyday
Everyday People
Everything
All-Around
About
Fact
Attention
Around
Continue
Movement
Famous
Stories
Places
White Women
Who
Media
Started
I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
Tatiana Maslany
Stage
Guess
Having
Attention
Like
Camera
Front
Being
Interaction
Reason
Actor
The opening lines of a book are so important. You really need to somehow charm your reader. If you can't get her attention in the first pages, you may have lost her. There has to be an ambience.
Tatiana de Rosnay
You
Book
First
Important
Lost
Somehow
Charm
Attention
Opening
Reader
Lines
Ambience
Get
May
Really
Pages
Your
Her
Need
The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.
Taylor Hackford
Music
You
Director
Job
Sense
Drawing
Give
Attention
Without
Itself
Should
I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special.
Ted Allen
Beautiful
Time
Good
Somebody
Good Time
Think
Detail
Admire
Martha
Martha Stewart
About
Had
Attention
Also
Learned
Fresh
Making
Fresh Ingredients
Lot
America
Ingredients
Really
Special
Who
Using
Her
Things
I think the struggle, whenever you make a film or television movie based on a real person's life, is finding a dramatic arc that will hold an audience's attention.
Ted Danson
Life
You
Struggle
Will
Think
Dramatic
Television
Finding
Arc
Attention
Make
Audience
Real
Person
Whenever
Movie
Hold
Film
Based
I still do lots of gigs where I'm the support act and people are chatting through my set, but I've got better at grabbing attention. I mean, my parents would play on bills with people like Judas Priest and get booed all the way through. But they stuck it out, got tough.
Teddy Thompson
People
Better
Parents
Tough
Way
Out
Would
Gigs
Through
Stuck
Chatting
Priest
Support
Attention
Like
Judas
Judas Priest
Got
Still
Lots
Grabbing
Get
Where
Mean
Act
Bills
Play
Set
Always say 'no pun intended' to draw attention to the intended pun.
Teju Cole
Pun
Say
Draw
Attention
Always
Intended
Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history is. You're looking at something very closely, and you try to write in a meticulous way about it.
Teju Cole
Art
History
You
Experience
Writing
Try
Looking
Way
Out
Some
About
Something
Write
Attention
Because
Meticulous
Historian
Art History
Very
Close
Close Attention
Closely
Really
Breughel is an example of an artist - I mean, this is true about artists and painters in general, but he is a specific example of an artist whose work contains more than you think it does at first glance. Whose work rewards, sustains attention and looking.
Teju Cole
Work
You
Example
First
Looking
Think
About
General
More
Glance
He
True
Attention
Contains
Does
Than
Artist
Artists
Rewards
Sustains
Mean
Painters
Whose
Specific
I am an official slow-roasted, honey-baked ham. Ever since I was a kid, my thing is that I love attention. All my report cards are like, 'He would be wonderful, but he just can't stop being a clown in class.'
Terry Crews
Love
Class
Wonderful
Clown
Kid
Would
Would-Be
He
Attention
Since
Like
Am
Ham
Report
Official
Just
Stop
Being
Ever
Thing
Cards
We just want to make sure the best candidates get the attention they deserve.
Terry Sanford
Best
Attention
Make
Sure
Get
Candidates
Just
Want
Deserve
Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.
Terry Southern
First
Believe
States
Intriguing
About
Someone
Attention
Piece
Partisan
Wrote
Got
Came
His
Review
Green
Which
Loving
Novels
United
Henry
United States
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