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“Now, I don't actually know the exact cut-off age where beautiful ceases and "must have-once-been-beautiful" begins. It's true it's not forty-five. I can still get attention when I try really hard, even if it's greatly reduced.”

Ifs Knows Trying Stills I Can Hard Age Beautiful Attention Five Cutting Cease Forty

Author:Paulina Porizkova

“The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.”

Thinking Book Facts Age Attention Assuming Novelists This Day

Author:Curtis Sittenfeld

“What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes from childhood to adolescence and from youth to manhood. He loses what had hitherto guided his life and lives without direction, not having found a new standard suitable to his age, and so he invents all sorts of occupations, cares, distractions, and stupefactions to divert his attention from the misery and senselessness of his life. Such a condition may last a long time.”

Source: I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy

“Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be able to read. I was reading Kipling and PG Wodehouse and Shakespeare at the age of 11. The kind of description and detail I read I would not put in my books. I don't know how much you can fight that because you want children to read. So I pack in excitement and plot and illustrations and have a cliffhanger every chapter. Charles Dickens was doing cliffhangers way back when. But even with all the excitement you have to make children care about the characters.”

“Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age.”

Art Age Attention Photography Claims Merit

Author:Alexander Rodchenko

“I don't think about age groups when I write, although I think if I know I'm writing for Children I'll be a bit more ambitious, and think more about every word, because I know that they pay closer attention when they read than adults do.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Children Age Bits Pay Attention Groups Adults Ambitious

Author:Neil Gaiman

“If you can somehow force a liberal into a point-counterpoint argument, his retorts will bear no relation to what you’ve said - unless you were in fact talking about your looks, your age, your weight, your personal obsessions, or whether you are a fascist. In the famous liberal two-step, they leap from one idiotic point to the next, so you can never nail them. It’s like arguing with someone with Attention Deficit Disorder.”

Ifs Looks Said Two Facts Age Next Force Attention Talking Steps Bears Argument Weight Relation Arguing Obsession Leap Disorder Nails Deficit Fascists Idiotic Attention Deficit Disorder Retorts

Author:Ann Coulter

“Truth, like beauty, varies its fashions, and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds; and he that recalls the attention of mankind to any part of learning which time has left behind it, may be truly said to advance the literatures of his own age. As the manners of nations vary, new topicks of persuasion become necessary, and new combinations of imagery are produced; and he that can accommodate himself to the reigning taste, may always have readers who perhaps would not have looked upon better performances.”

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“I was the youngest of three kids, and from the age of four, singing was my way of getting attention.”

Way Kids Age Three Attention Four Singing My Way

Author:Kiki Dee

“If you start paying attention to Tom Hanks, you realize that he's not the Jimmy Stewart of our age. He's a very nice man. Everyone that I know that knows him says he's a great father. But, let's not pretend that he's something that he's not. He's just like George Clooney. He's a very radical leftist.”

Ifs Knows Men Age Father Realizing Attention Nice Radical Pay Attention Toms Jimmy Very Nice Leftists Great Father Nice Man Jimmy Stewart

Author:Bill O'Reilly

“From youth to middle, and often to past middle, age, most men are apt to be too closely engaged in the struggle of life to pay due attention to the strength of the body. They may take daily what they consider a sufficient amount of exercise; but the exercise is not calculated to keep the various limbs and muscles, still less the internal organs, in proper working order. Amid the ordinary concerns of life the man may appear strong, even stalwart. But when occasion arises for some special muscular exercise, or taxing the action of some organ, he finds out his weakness.”

“My mother once said "If you don't pay attention to age, then it won't pay attention to you." And she says it, and it sounds nice, but I don't buy it.”

Ifs Said Age Mother Sound Pay Attention Nice Pay Attention

Author:Cher

“Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me.”

Book Age Attention Healthy Pay Attention Marketplace Bookstores

Author:Mary Karr

“I decided that I want to live the rest of my life happy with what I'm doing. So when I play tennis again, I have to play it for the right reason. I don't want to play to get my No. 1 ranking back. I don't want to play for the attention, or to earn more. I don't even want to play because the world wants to see me do it, even though it's nice to know that the world is interested. I only want to play because I love the game, which is the reason I began to play at age seven in the first place.”

Knows World Want Firsts Reason Play Age Games Attention Nice Decided Seven Tennis Happy Life Ranking

Author:Monica Seles

“All the children of America, up to age seven or eight or nine or ten - they're really great artists. So here we've got this amazing work that very few people pay any attention to, and it's not valued by the culture.”

People Children Age America Artist Culture Pay Attention Ten Seven Eight Nine Really Great Great Art Great Artist Amazing Work

Author:Chris Martin

“I was in acting classes from the age of 9, dance classes, music classes - my mom put a lot of energy and attention into me, so no matter what happened in my life, I always had this basis of discipline. So I really worked hard for everything I had from a very early age.”

Matter Hard Age Energy Acting Attention Class Happened Mom Discipline Bases No Matter What My Mom Acting Classes Dance Class

Author:Milla Jovovich

“Poetry of all the forms of literature I think is the most suited for the digital age and for the shorter attention spans and all of that. It Twitters very easily, some lyric poems and it's very easy to zip a poem to someone, so that's one of the things I think is wonderful about poetry in the digital age.”

Thinking Age Form Literature Easy Attention Wonderful Digital Digital Age Attention Span Zips

Author:Rita Dove

“I don't want to speak for all people who don't have children, but maybe there's a discomfort with kids and the amount of attention they demand, by just being the age that they are.”

People Want Children Kids Age Speak Attention Amount Demand Just Being Discomfort

Author:Shannyn Sossamon