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Elfriede Jelinek

"I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead."

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Donna Grant

"Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away."

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Donna Grant

"Make It Fun. Have you ever been publicly acknowledged or called upon in a room filled with people? Depending on your personality type, it can be either exhilarating or mortifying. It certainly does grab your attention, as well as everyone else's!"

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Donna Grant

"You don't care for anybody... you just do it for attention, isn't it true?"

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Donna Grant

"We've all been in the middle of a conversation and the person with whom we are speaking breaks eye contact, appears distracted, glazes over, or looks elsewhere. Their simple eye movement can quickly break down communications by making us feel ignored, dismissed, or rejected. For some, it may be accidental and unintentional, while for others, avoiding eye contact is on purpose."

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Donna Grant

"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention."

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Donna Grant

"Everybody-even monsters-needed a little attention once in a while."

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Donna Grant

"They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves."

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Donna Grant

"When you are "off somewhere else" people notice. Have you found yourself in conversations in which you're so concerned about what you are going to say next, that you don't even hear what the other person is saying? Guilty as charged, right?"

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Donna Grant

"I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know."

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Donna Grant

"If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed."

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Elfriede Jelinek
"Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award."

Society

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Elfriede Jelinek
"I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak."

Eternity

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Elfriede Jelinek
"I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing."

Feelings

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Elfriede Jelinek
"My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak."

Music

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Elfriede Jelinek
"I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people."

People

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Elfriede Jelinek
"I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist."

Men

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Elfriede Jelinek
"It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease."

Freedom

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Elfriede Jelinek
"My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language."

Language

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Elfriede Jelinek
"The government has once again made the right socially acceptable."

Government

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Elfriede Jelinek
"Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds."

Society

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