"So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all."

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"So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all."

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"If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world, then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing."

John Elway, American Athlete

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"When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention."

Mark Shields, American Journalist

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"I was always jealous of something getting more attention."

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"The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away."

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"Opera is given so little attention in the national press."

Carlisle Floyd, American Composer

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"Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention."

Keith Henson, American Scientist

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"If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance."

Margery Allingham, English Writer

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

Jessica Savitch, American Journalist

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"Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention."

Thomas Sydenham, English Scientist

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"I don't cringe when I think of doing old material. A lot of the people have been with me through the years."

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"If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world, then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it."

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"Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention."

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"I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs."

"I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about."

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"I relate to the audiences and they know me. It's pretty real."

"I'm not trying to be the new anybody."

"Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it."

"There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find it there when I got back."

"You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds."