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“I recently wrote a piece on comics in architecture - I was talking about the three kinds of comics I pay attention to: the Franco-Belgian, the Japanese manga, and the American comics. I started thinking about the relationship between Japanese manga and Japanese architecture, or Franco-Belgian bande dessinée versus Franco-Belgian architecture, it began to make sense; there are parallels to the modes of operations and the cultures they belong to. If I didn't force myself to write, I would have no forum to clarify these thoughts. Writing is really helpful.”

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Author:Jimenez Lai

“If there's a distinction between men and women, I don't pay attention to it. Honestly, I don't see it. I think all of us are part feminine and part masculine.”

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Author:Wayne Dyer

“I actually think history doesn't repeat itself. There are recurrent themes, but they're repeated with variations. Each time there's an immigration crisis, a threat from outside which is met with inhospitable wall building, it's different. And I think it's helpful to notice the big patterns in history, but it's also important to pay attention to the details, which makes each situation distinct from another.”

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Author:Lucy Hughes-Hallett

“Sometimes if you just take the time to really pay attention and break it down, you can figure out what caused it. And from there, generally, I can pull myself up out of it. And if I can't, that's where the support group comes in.”

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Author:Dwayne Johnson

“Not that long ago, the idea of feeding your kid with organic fruit and vegetables or paying attention to sustainability or any of that - that was very fringy. And I guess some people will argue it still is to a degree, but it's kind of mainstream fringy now.”

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Author:Peggy Orenstein

“When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.”

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Author:Jon Kabat-Zinn

“I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.”

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Author:Anne Lamott

“Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.”

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Author:Anne Lamott

“These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.”

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Author:Anne Lamott

“Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.”

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Author:Charles de Lint

“When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten.”

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Author:Charles de Lint

“It's so hard to express yourself, because swimmers are pretty much paying attention to a black line for hours out of a day.”

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Author:Ryan Lochte

“If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away.”

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Author:John Lydon

“Most Americans will let liberals and conservatives play their games because most Americans don't pay attention.”

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Author:Dennis Miller

“I won't complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just absurd. Like, 'Boo hoo hoo! I have to stand on stage and people pay attention to me!'”

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Author:Moby

“It's really annoying when you're trying to get to know someone and she doesn't pay attention to you because she's obsessed with her phone.”

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Author:Cory Monteith

“It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.”

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Author:Viggo Mortensen

“To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.”

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Author:Viggo Mortensen

“Your children can be around you all day, but if you don't spend quality time with them and you don't pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn't matter that they're just around you.”

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Author:Brandy Norwood

“You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.”

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Author:Martha Beck

“Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general: Keep trying, don't give up, don't be discouraged, don't pay attention to detractors. Everyone knows this.”

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Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.”

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Book:Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays

Source: Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays

“I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.”

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Author:Victoria Beckham

“I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her.”

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Author:Matthew Perry

“If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.”

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Author:Tom Peters

“I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.”

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Author:Dana Plato

“I don't pay attention to the ratings.”

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Author:Martha Plimpton

“Both conservatives and liberals watch 'Parks and Recreation,' and they each think the show is for them, which is really cool. 'SNL' was totally different. It was exciting because everyone was paying attention. Political humor works when people know what you're talking about.”

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Author:Amy Poehler

“A lot of what acting is paying attention.”

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Author:Nancy Reagan

“It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don't think it's necessarily broader or smarter.”

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Author:Robert Redford

“The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.”

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Author:Keanu Reeves

“I'm really specific in the way that I shoot. I've always had a very good sense of what I need in the editing room. I used to shoot in a way that drew more attention to the camera and I've tried, in each film, to draw less and less attention to the camera. I think when you pay attention to the shots, you're aware of the fact that there's a director.”

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Author:Jason Reitman

“Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.”

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Author:Little Richard

“The mistake isn't releasing something bad. The mistake is to launch it and get PR people involved. You don't want people to start amping up expectations for an early version of your product. The best entrepreneurship happens in low-stakes environments where no one is paying attention, like Mark Zuckerberg's dorm room at Harvard.”

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Author:Eric Ries

“In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time of no money, no market, and no one paying attention except other artists. Vietnam and Watergate had happened; everything in America was being questioned.”

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Author:Jerry Saltz

“My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.”

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Author:Adam Sandler

“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.”

“Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board.”

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Author:Jello Biafra

“Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections.”

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Author:Jello Biafra

“Pay attention; don't let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.”

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Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.”

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Author:Susan Sontag

“Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth, if we don't pay attention and reverse our course.”

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Author:Theodore C. Sorensen

“We have to look and ensure that we're paying attention to what we're doing, so that we don't reflexively institute processes and procedures that exclude people without thought.”

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Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.”

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Author:Thomas Sowell

“History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.”

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Author:Adora Svitak

“It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs - because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.”

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Author:Taylor Swift

“Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.”

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Author:Eddie Vedder

“Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.”

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Author:J. C. Watts

“Pay attention to your body. The point is everybody is different. You have to figure out what works for you.”

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Author:Andrew Weil

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