Quotes 321 till 340 of 510.
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Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.
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Scott Brown is a superstar. Scott Brown won a race that nobody expected Republicans to even be competitive in, and he was able to do it at a time when nothing else going on, so he captured the attention of conservatives across the country.
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Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.
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She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect.
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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
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Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.
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Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.
Faceboek (2014) -
Short words are the best and old words when short are best of all.
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Since I was a kid - youngest of five kids - I've always been starved for attention, like 'Look at me! Look at me! Look what I can do!'
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Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
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So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.
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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
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Television and cable have become the new independent films, in a sense, for writers and actors to gravitate towards. That's why I like short films, too; I love doing readings, audio books, working with young filmmakers; anything that keeps you from getting blase about yourself or in a rut.
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That is the reason they are so pleased to find out other people's secrets. It distracts public attention from their own.
An Ideal Husband -
That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction.
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