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“I pay attention to the actors and stuff, but not even that much. I don't pay attention to who's writing.”

Writing Actors Stuff Pay Attention Pay Attention

Author:Jason Mewes

“A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff.”

Stuff Attention Audience Television Assuming Attention Span

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“I'm trying to use whatever attention is focused on me and divert it to something that really deserves the attention and try and sort of stay out of the way of the rest of the stuff.”

Way Trying Use Stuff Attention Deserve Focused

Author:Natalie Portman

“I would like to design what people generally call streetwear. I'd like to dress skateboarders, or whatever the older equivalent of skateboarders are. I pay more attention to that stuff than anyone would ever imagine because I'm watching what the designers do.”

People Stuff Pay Attention Imagine Design Dresses Designer Skateboarder

Author:William Gibson

“Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.”

Made Stuff Memories Attention Genius

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.”

Ifs Writing Wells Ends Play Stuff Pay Attention Watches Backgrounds Pay Attention Background Music

Author:Aaron Sorkin

“There's always been a lot of negative stuff written about me. That's why I don't pay any attention to the critics. They've never liked anything I've done. What do critics know? It's the way the audience reacts that matters.”

Knows Way Matter Done Stuff Pay Attention Audience Written Negative Critics

Author:Eddie Murphy

“I see young people being dismissed for supposedly wanting only "stupid" and "easy" material, or that they don't have an attention span longer than three minutes. I disagree with all those statements; I just think they aren't true. I'm saying that our generation wants stuff that is substantial and challenging, as well as thoughtful and endearing. Well, I don't know if I'm doing that, but I'm trying.”

“I don't pay attention. I don't read stuff or message boards because you definitely get affected. You can read a hundred great comments, amazing comments, and have one bad one and that is all you can focus on and it wrecks your day. It says something about negativity and how it draws us somehow.”

Stuff Pay Attention Focus Messages Draws Hundred Pay Attention Boards Affected Comment Negativity Wrecks

Author:Joan Jett

“You can't be positive to everybody. A lot of people want to focus on flaws and negativity, especially on the Internet because that's their only voice. I don't pay attention to that kind of stuff. I pay attention to opportunities coming my way, gays and lesbians telling me what I've done for them, organizations in my community that always want to work with me.”

People Way Want Kind Done Opportunity Stuff Voice Community Pay Attention Focus Internet Gay Organization My Way Pay Attention Flaws Negativity Being Positive

Author:Jackie Warner

“My anxiety about disasters is lower. The more you know, the less scary any of this stuff is. And that's my hope for the book. I want to get people's attention and tell them very valuable and ultimately hopeful information, and you find out nothing is as scary as your imagination.”

People Knows Want Book Stuff Imagination Attention Information Anxiety Scary Valuable Disaster Hopeful

Author:Amanda Ripley

“If you directly try to write about an idea, it will never be what you imagined. But if you're imagining through the building of sentences, through the characters, and paying attention to avoid ease and comfort yet still thinking about making the sentences work, you will get a shot at some real interesting stuff.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Trying Stills Ideas Real Character Stuff Interesting Attention Building Comfort Shots Sentences Pay Attention Ease Interesting Stuff

Author:Dana Spiotta

“If you are lucky enough to be successful, you get drawn further in and you stop paying attention to the stuff that matters.”

Ifs Matter Enough Stuff Attention Successful Lucky Pay Attention Being Successful Stuff That Matters

Author:David Macaulay

“I just hated being around attention and stuff. In the clubhouse, I hated being around that. I didn't like anything to do with being around people, for the most part. I mean, I could be around them, just not in a talking situation, and that would make it even worse.”

People Mean Stuff Attention Talking Situation Hated

Author:Zack Greinke

“I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all.”

Culture Causes Stuff Pay Attention Popular Culture Good Causes

Author:T Bone Burnett

“I feel like my perception has changed a little because when I was posting stuff online it was an extension of my studio and then it started getting some of the attention. Now it's like, "Oh, this is actually a place where you can make money," but I'm not interested in competing in that space. It seems like too much to deal with.”

Feels Littles Seems Stuff Space Deals Attention Too Much Changed Perception Studios Making Money Online Not Interested Extensions Competing

Author:Kalup Linzy