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"Having cameras follow you is something that requires a little personal adjustment, but you actually do begin to forget they're there. It's impossible to maintain that awareness all the time, and when you're going through an emotional or absorbing experience, you really don't have any spare attention to think, "Got to remember that the camera is rolling.""
"When you're going through an emotional experience and you're focussed completely on what's happening, you can't even spare any attention that the camera's there."
"Ugly people kill people all the time. But when pretty people did, it got attention."
"Perhaps we wouldn't eat so much, or smoke, or drink so much if we were paying attention to ourselves. Perhaps we wouldn't talk so much if we were paying attention to each other. All these oral activities are trying to meet a need, and perhaps the greatest need is to be seen and heard."
"Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to me a rather prurient way, whether I myself or my family have 'ever been threatened' by jihadists. My answer is that yes, I have, and so has everyone else in the audience, if they have paid enough attention to the relevant bin-Ladenist broadcasts to notice the fact."
"If you don't pay attention to history, you're destined to repeat it."
"When I'm on the red carpet, I'm prepared for [the attention.] But the worst thing is on planes, when you're asleep and you're woken up by a camera flashing. That's a little bit much. But what do you do? It's a part of [being famous]. Unfortunately."
"There is this broad, broad recognition of how technology is enabling new things. Companies that never paid attention to computers in any form now see digital technology as creating threats and opportunities for them."
"I'm not a big fan of CGI. I'm not a fan at all, unless they use it in a way that doesn't call attention to itself."
"I haven't been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions."
"Just in time for Bob Dylan to recoil from the attention, leave the city for Woodstock, and turn his back on fame."
"You know, sometimes a person's reputation can be far more colossal than the influence of the person. I don't pay any attention to it anymore."
"The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention."
"I always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it."
"Horror I appreciate is one of the few genres that can wind the audience up and make them pay attention. I kind of like that. It's one of the few genres that can be very manipulative."
"But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention."
"I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention."
"I think accessibility is what often denies horror its deserved attention. So it all depends on the execution and whether mainstream audiences can accept it."
"It's very hard to take a character out of nothing, and put a hook on it, especially because it's only sonic. Futurama is a sonic world, and everyone's attention is focused on that sound and that little cartoon image. You can change it."
"Because,' Cormery went on, 'when I was very young, very foolish, and very much alone ... you paid attention to me and, without seeming to, you opened for me the door to everything I love in the world."
