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"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?"

"Even though it has been very painful, lots of opportunities have come forward journalistically. Once all of this blows over, I think it might actually help that I have gotten this attention."

"While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare."

"Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive."

"I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95."

"A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More times than not, I will not give it to them."

"The problem... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on."
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"Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course."


"When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened."


"However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously."


"I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned."
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