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Bob Balaban

"If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young."

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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

"Better ignore it than halfheartedly listen!"

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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

"You can't get attention of one who focused on himself."

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Donna Grant

"Thirsty for attention is a cry of loneliness."

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Donna Grant

"All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying."

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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

"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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Bob Balaban
"And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you?ve got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime."

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Bob Balaban
"My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business."

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Bob Balaban
"I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game."

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Bob Balaban
"I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area."

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Bob Balaban
"I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often."

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Bob Balaban
"If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young."

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Bob Balaban
"I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening."

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Bob Balaban
"My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it wasn't anything dangerous, thank God."

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Bob Balaban
"God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too."

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Bob Balaban
"I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions."

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