"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."

Attention, Detail, Flying, Focus

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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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"What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful."

Sandra Day O'Connor, American Judge

Attention, First, Media, Press

"Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory."

Richard Whately, English Writer

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"It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths."

Jean Rostand, French Scientist

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"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."

Theodore C. Sorensen, American Lawyer

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"The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster."

Georg Brandes, Danish Critic

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"I think the killers get far too much attention."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could."

William Graham Sumner, American Businessman

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"I just really don't like being the center of attention that much. It's kind of ironic."

Jimmy Fallon, American Comedian

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"I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important."

Diane Lane, American Actress

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"It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president."

Kathy Najimy, American Actress

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"It's very little trouble for me to accomodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time."

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"I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience."

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"What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily."

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"With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion."

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"All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor."

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"I think retirement's for old people. I'm still in the business, thank you. I have a young child of nine years old, and I want to live as long as I can to see him grow up. I'm enjoying my life and I want to stick around for as long as I can."

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"If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job."

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"My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious."

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