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I got on stage for the first time when I was seven. From seven until I was about nine it was probably more to do with just being on stage and having the attention.

~Gemma Ward

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When 'American Born Chinese' started getting a lot of attention, I freaked out a little bit because I realized that up until then I had just been doing comics by following my gut. I didn't really know much about plot structure or anything; I kind of just followed my gut.

~Gene Luen Yang

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James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.

~Gene Simmons

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I know that you like to see a man in the kitchen, but I'm skeptical of men who cook. A man should be focusing his attention on the woman, and not what's on the stove.

~Gene Simmons

Topics: Attention Cook Focusing His Kitchen Know Like Man Men See Should Skeptical Stove Who Woman You

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I worked two days in Texas and two days in Hollywood on 'Bonnie and Clyde,' and that was it. I had no idea how it was going to turn out. And when I saw it, I was so upset, or fascinated, or something, by the sight of myself on the screen that I could hardly pay attention to the rest of the movie.

~Gene Wilder

Topics: Attention Could Days Fascinated Going Had Hardly Hollywood How Idea Movie Myself No Idea Out Pay Pay Attention Rest Saw Screen Sight Something Texas Turn Two Upset Worked

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If you're not religious, like me, how do you explain the transformational power that certain places have? They bring an incredible degree of attention to where you are and the passage of time. You're looking at every flower twitching, wondering if it's just the breeze or some magical pulse.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Attention Breeze Bring Certain Degree Every Explain Flower How Incredible Just Like Looking Magical Me Passage Places Power Pulse Religious Some Time Where Wondering You

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In the 1930s, photographers such as Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange produced images of sharecroppers and Okies, which drew attention both to the conditions in which these unfortunates found themselves and to their heroic fortitude.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Attention Both Conditions Drew Fortitude Found Heroic Images Photographers Produced Themselves Walker Which 1930S

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Predation is part of the everyday life of capitalism, in sectors as mainstream as pharmaceuticals, software and oil - where people's money, their data, their time and their attention are routinely taken in fundamentally asymmetrical exchanges.

~Geoff Mulgan

Topics: Attention Capitalism Data Everyday Everyday Life Exchanges Fundamentally Life Mainstream Money Oil Part People Sectors Software Taken Time Where

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When you have a chef that wants to be in the spotlight, maybe after one or two appearances on a show, they think they're at a certain level that they haven't reached yet in the kitchen. Shows like 'Top Chef', 'Hell's Kitchen' have helped bring attention to the culinary world.

~Geoffrey Zakarian

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Shows like 'Top Chef,' 'Hell's Kitchen' have helped bring attention to the culinary world on a whole, but you have to be cautious it doesn't get out of hand.

~Geoffrey Zakarian

Topics: Attention Bring Cautious Chef Culinary Get Hand Hell Helped Kitchen Like Out Shows Top Top Chef Whole World You

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