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“I do less of that stuff now because I figured out that when I was writing things I didn't care about, it made me angry and depressed, so I turned my focus to what does make me happy, and also I recognized that one of the things that gives me great happiness is teaching creative writing, and so I could write profiles of professional golfers or I could be a professor. Being a professor made me much happier.”

Giving Writing Doe Made Care Stuff Creative Focus Teaching Give Me Angry Professors Creative Writing Golfers Profile Make Me Happy Great Happiness

Author:Tod Goldberg

“If you focus on literature through only one small element of it, like the more scientific element of linguistics, then where is the joy that brought us literature in the first place, which is to have a story?”

Ifs Firsts Stories Joy Literature Focus Elements Linguistics

Author:T.C. Boyle

“The idea of the writer who writes nineteen novels, with various ups and downs and levels of experimentation, isn't around so much now. There's a focus, I think, on fewer books, with more pressure on each book to succeed. With that there comes, I think, a certain pressure towards shapeliness in fiction. Towards neatness. And I think writers feel that, and it can effect how they write.”

Thinking Feels Writing Book Ideas Certain Levels Fiction Novel Focus Effects Succeed Pressure Various Fewer Ups & Downs Experimentation Nineteen Neatness

Author:Chad Harbach

“In fiction, I have a residual guilt when I focus on story over language or mood or whatever - the more "literary" things. In screenwriting, I don't have that guilt because story is the only thing. Character, dialogue, everything else - they feed into and drive story.”

Character Stories Language Fiction Focus Guilt Mood Dialogue Screenwriting Residual

Author:Nick Antosca

“I'm happiest when I have something to focus my energy on.”

Energy Focus

Author:Scarlett Johansson

“Without financial literacy, divorce rates soar, families rupture, and women stay with abusive men for financial security. A lack of jobs contributes to riots and illegal activity. Name any situation and it goes back to money. We need to focus on poverty eradication.”

“Dr. King organized the Poor People's Campaign in 1968 to shut down Washington, D.C. and force legislators to tackle poverty. His efforts to shift focus from civil to silver rights were interrupted by his untimely death. He fought ardently for Black rights, but he also recognized financial literacy as the key to an America that was truly free for all people.”

“You write things that are of interest to you. There's no focus group.”

Writing Interest Focus Groups Focus Groups

Author:Zach Galifianakis

“I'm a huge Hayao Miyazaki fan. He might be my favorite director of all time - the beauty that he sees in the world and the attention to detail. I try and focus on that while making music: trying to use as many real instruments as possible, have it feel as tactile and tangible as possible.”

World Feels Trying Real Use Might Attention Focus Fans Huge Directors Instruments My Favorite Details All Time Tangible Attention To Detail Tactile

Author:St. Lucia

“No matter what size you are, you must be healthy. I focus on health as a model, whether it's doing yoga, hiking, kickboxing - those things bring me joy.”

Matter Joy Focus Healthy Models Yoga No Matter What Size Hiking Kickboxing

Author:Crystal Renn

“There's been a lot of focus on my body, but it's taught me to appreciate myself no matter where I am.”

Matter Body Focus Taught Appreciate

Author:Crystal Renn

“Focus and having energy is the most important goal when choosing my activities and how I treat myself.”

Important Energy Goal Focus Activity Treats

Author:Crystal Renn

“I often think about how, if we were all placed in an apocalyptic situation, you'd realize quickly how stupid, petty things just don't matter anymore. Who you love is who you love, and it doesn't matter. Survival is your primary focus.”

Ifs Thinking Matter Realizing Love Is Situation Focus Stupid Survival Primaries Petty Apocalyptic

Author:Alycia Debnam Carey

“When you're placed in a world where survival is the main focus, a lot of that other stuff, like wrongdoings in the past, become obsolete. You have to focus on the here and now. Yes, there is tension between the two of them.”

World Two Past Stuff Focus Survival Tension Here And Now Obsolete Wrongdoing

Author:Alycia Debnam Carey

“Flint and its lead contaminated water are now the focus of sustained national attention including political attention.”

Political Water Attention Focus Including

Author:Rachel Maddow

“There's a certain pressure you put on yourself to use the comics page to full advantage that can focus your mind to a pinpoint, and when the juices are flowing, that's incredibly exciting. When you've managed to fit a complex set of actions or a complicated emotional passage into a single page there's the sense of satisfaction that I suspect a sculptor gets from chipping away at a piece of stone and ending up with a fully-realized work of art.”

Mind Art Use Action Certain Focus Pieces Emotional Fit Pages Advantage Stones Exciting Pressure Complexes Satisfaction Complicated Suspects Works Of Art Passages Juice Sculptors Chipping Away

Author:James Vance

“The reason why so many of my photographs in the book were taken in stairwells and corridors was that that was the only bit of spare space available and, in some cases, the only place where there was enough light to see anything. Even then, it was often so dark that I couldn't tell which gender my subject was (not that I particularly cared) and too dark, before the era of autofocus, to focus. I had to find a light (or carry a torch) and pre-focus.”

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Author:Derek Ridgers

“You can learn to focus on love in your heart rather than the symptoms of your physical condition.”

Heart Focus Conditions Symptoms

Author:Lee L Jampolsky

“I am in any way glorifying or simplifying prostitution. The reality of prostitutes around the world is so complex. I've tried to focus on the humanity.”

World Way Reality Humanity Focus Complexes Around The World Prostitution

Author:Maya Goded

“In a regular class I don't focus on the form, but I think that focus is helpful for brainstorming and coming up with ideas quickly, especially with autobiographical material.”

Thinking Ideas Form Class Focus Materials Helpful Brainstorming

Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell

“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”

“Somewhat paradoxically, parenting programs should focus on the behavior of the parents not the behavior of the children.”

Should Children Parent Focus Behavior Program

Author:Timothy Carey

“A parenting program should focus on parent's attitudes to themselves, their children, and the relationships they are building with their children.”

Should Children Parent Attitude Focus Building Program

Author:Timothy Carey

“When a child or adolescent is troubled, the most important thing for the parent to focus on may very well be their relationship with their child or adolescent. Parents need to do whatever they can to make sure the relationship is strong.”

Needs Wells May Children Important Strong Parent Focus Important Things

Author:Timothy Carey

“We need to focus on destroying ISIL, but we shouldn't be the ones declaring that [Bashir] Assad must go.”

Needs Focus Destroying Declaring Assad Isil

Author:Martin O'Malley

“In my short stories there's a lot of focus on people successfully and not successfully responding to some sorts of discomforts or instabilities.”

People Stories Focus Short Story Discomfort Responding Instability

Author:Leni Zumas

“Obviously this all gets tricky/complicated when your writing reveals so much of your private/intimate life, and the nature of writing on the Internet comes with a lot of focus on your "personal brand."”

Writing Focus Internet Complicated Brands Intimate Tricky

Author:Marie Calloway

“In some sense that was a blessing, because it forced me to focus on prose. I feel my narrative voice in prose is more authentically me because I developed it without ever soliciting the advice of anyone else.”

Feels Voice Focus Advice Blessing Narrative Prose Narrative Voice

Author:Kevin Keck

“I've always been fascinated with prostitution. I looked it up in the dictionary as a child, and I remember hearing that Jesus would hang out with prostitutes. I would always focus on the prostitutes.”

Children Remember Jesus Focus Hearing Hanging Out Fascinated Dictionary Prostitution

Author:Craig Seymour

“I think we should really discourage this sort of empathic engagement when it comes to making moral decisions. I think we should focus on something like compassion, on getting people to care more for others without putting ourselves in their shoes.”

People Thinking Should Care Decision Compassion Moral Focus Shoes Engagement Discouraging Moral Decisions

Author:Paul Bloom

“If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it.”

People Ifs Fighting Focus Smart Oppression Theme Working It Smart People Fighting Back

Author:Molly Crabapple

“I focus on the words and then I have fun putting together the music after.”

Together Fun Focus Having Fun

Author:Matt Berninger

“In general, I always make it my mission to focus on the one person in the audience who seems to be absolutely miserable about being there and try to convert them.”

Trying Persons Seems Audience Focus Missions Miserable Being There

Author:Davy Rothbart

“Many organizations help businesses to stay on top of what's changing or likely to change. It's important for executives and managers who focus on a company's health coverage to stay up-to-speed on what's happening, and it's important for those in the C-suite to understand the changes to factor these new variables into their strategic planning calculus.”

Important Helping Company Focus Happenings Organization Speed Planning Factors Managers Executives Strategic Coverage Variables Strategic Planning Calculus Health Coverage

Author:John E. McDonough

“I've always had the mentality of: work hard, get to bed early, focus - and let your work speak for itself.”

Hard Speak Focus Hard Work Bed Mentality

Author:Olivia Palermo

“I prefer to focus on the future. There are a lot of new stories to be heard.”

Stories Focus Heard Focus On The Future

Author:Gugu Mbatha-Raw

“I have to be able to stick to very dedicated times to work on things, do exactly as I say I'm going to do, show up when I say I'm going to show up and focus that's the only way I've been able to pull off everything last year but I'm hoping I'll never have to do that again, it's a hell of a lot of work that's for sure.”

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Author:Tom DeLonge

“I've been to acting school and I think that at the end of the day, when you just focus on the work and you're comfortable with who you are, that at some point someone's going to recognize your talent and give you an opportunity.”

Thinking Giving Ends School Opportunity Acting Focus Talent Comfortable Who You Are The End Of The Day

Author:Viola Davis

“It's important for me to not historicize. I work to diffuse the issue of identity and to intensify identification. You have to lose your authority in the making of a film to achieve this. The film is about me being absolutely dislocated. I focus on the very personal to arrive at the very political.”

Important Film Political Loses Issues Focus Achieve Identity Authority Identification

Author:Elia Suleiman

“If something boils up under stress later, I remind myself to breathe and focus back to how I decided my day was going to go. It's simple but it works.”

Ifs Simple Focus Decided Stress Breathe Under Stress

Author:Beth Riesgraf

“Failure is always present as an actor. I make my living by taking chances. If I'm not risking something, then I'm not doing my job, so I'm constantly failing. In fact, I'm trying to fail bigger. I try to focus on the positive, the moment, and try to realize where I'm at in an attempt to understand the failure.”

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Author:Damon Runyon

“So forget the price tag. I mean, forget the size tag and focus on "Does it look right on me?" Would it look better with a little more blouse? A lot of people think, "Oh, my God, it's got to be tight, it's got to be tight." Actually, you look thinner when it's not as tight.”

People Thinking Looks Mean Littles Doe Forget Focus Size Tag Price Tag Blouses

Author:Molly Sims

“Best thing that's ever happened to me. I focus so much less on me. It's made me content, it's made me happy. It's like a Christmas present every single day that I get to unwrap. It's hard work.”

Made Hard Focus Happened Hard Work Best Things Christmas Present

Author:Molly Sims

“Meditation has become a big part of my life these days. It's more about taking some moments for yourself to deep-breathe and focus your attention inward. This has really helped me because, as a perfectionist, I used to think that if I couldn't meditate in my idea of the perfect way, then it wouldn't work. I now meditate even if it is for three minutes while I'm sitting in the car. Every little bit helps to slow the system.”

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Author:Renee Marino

“I've recently started practicing japa meditation. Meditating has always been a bit difficult for me, but japa asks you to focus on the space between things, and psychologically knowing I have anchor points frees me to do so.”

Asks Bits Difficult Space Knowing Focus Meditation Anchors Meditating Space Between

Author:Allison McAtee

“I love Bikram Yoga. I tend to move and think at a fast pace, and the heat forces me to slow down and just focus on my breath. I'm also a fan of Kundalini yoga. It's still a new practice for me, but I've found it infinitely helpful in getting me present.”

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Author:Allison McAtee

“I hit my knees every morning and every night to give thanks for being alive and all the blessings I have. And in the middle of chaos, it's been suggested to me to stop and truly look around, notice the sky, the trees, the grass, and realize you're part of it all, which is hard when you really want to focus on what you think is bothering you. However, one of the smartest things I do is check in with my awesome wife, who is really good at screwing my head back on when needed.”

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Author:Patrick Fabian

“I've been trying to give as much attention and focus to my life as well as my career. It's hard because the career is money, but putting that before day-to-day needs isn't something that can last indefinitely. I'm excited to begin the next chapter of my life with an amazing woman.”

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Author:Eric Lange

“I'm really trying to focus on the storytelling, more so than ever before I think, partly because it makes for easier pages.”

Thinking Trying Focus Easier Pages Storytelling

Author:Jim Lee

“As a kid, I loved my Matchbox cars, my Big Wheels, and the race cars on TV. When I laid eyes on my first go-kart when I was just five, it gave my desire for making things with wheels go fast a focus. This combined with the fact that I've been incredibly competitive since a young age made for the proper mix of passion and aggression to become a race car driver.”

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Author:Andy Lally

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