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"Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues."
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"The person whose attention is in the 'pure Soul' is known as a renowned person. No one in the past had been celebrated as a famous person, they were called renowned persons. To be famous is the result of an 'above normal' state."
"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."
"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?"
"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention."
"The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."
"You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher."
"I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation."
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"I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection."
"Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight."
"You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe."
"There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do."
"It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. "The West Wing" isn't meant to be good for you."
"Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for."
"There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited."
"It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling."
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