#attention

I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me - either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention. ↗

— Deana Carter

#coming #could #either #guy #his

It was more like having unwanted attention as a child - if you'd walk around, people would recognize you, and it would be in a weird, almost making-fun-type manner. ↗

— Anna Chlumsky

#around #attention #child #having #like

I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting. ↗

— Julie Christie

#attention #born #center #course #i

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson. ↗

— John Henrik Clarke

#attention #audience #entertainer #first #good

Well, honestly, both my husband and I tend to ignore the tabloids. We see them every once in awhile or it comes to our attention that we are in a tabloid for one reason or another. But it's always false. ↗

— Connie Chung

#another #attention #awhile #both #comes

Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark - they process information so quickly and it's not because of attention deficit or short attention span. ↗

— Thomas Haden Church

#appeals #attention #attention deficit #attention span #because

I appreciated and respected kids who asked questions. They didn't do it to get attention, but because they were interested. Kids who didn't want to look dumb seemed like scared little rabbits. ↗

— Henry Cole

#asked #attention #because #dumb #get

The gay people I knew in real life were soft spoken and didn't want to call attention to themselves because they were terrified of exposing themselves, of people finding out that they're gay. ↗

— Chris Colfer

#because #call #exposing #finding #gay

I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, as we had already breathed the air which it contained for a full hour, it must have lost much of its vital properties and needed to be renewed. ↗

— George Combe

#air #already #also #attention #breathed

Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest. ↗

— George Combe

#become #brain #brief #fatigued #i