"So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result."

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"So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result."

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"So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised."

Funny, People, Virtue, Chance

"But I have to grow out of it, because it's very boring, really. Even when you're telling people how crap you are, you're still banging on about yourself."

People,

"I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to be disappointing. So I worked really hard, but at the time it suited me, because I didn't do very much else."

Time, Effort

"I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl."

Life, Being, Dancing, Fantasy

"I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to a group. You know, where people would call me 'Em' and shout across the bar, 'Em, what are you drinking?' after the show."

People, Drinking, Friends, School

"I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be."

People, Being, Growing up

"So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result."

Attention, Misery, Result, Will

"The odd thing is if you asked me to do the accent now I would find it very difficult unless I was also playing that part, because I associate it so much with entering into the role and stepping into someone else's shoes."

Now,

"I think we probably will end up in America because he would be giving up much more to come and live here. If you want to work in film, that's really where you have to be. But I'm not sure that being an ex-pat is very good for one's sense of self."

Work, America, Being, End

"My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends."

Father, Dad, Thought, Children, Girls

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"It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers."

Lascelles Abercrombie, British Poet

Attention,

"The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem."

Dean Acheson, American Statesman

Attention, Ego, Man, Public

"We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do."

Lamar Alexander, American Politician

Attention, Want

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

Margery Allingham, English Writer

Attention,

"Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls."

Barbara Amiel, British Journalist

Attention, World

"Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes."

Antisthenes, Greek Philosopher

Attention, Enemies, First, Mistakes

"There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes."

John Badham, British Director

Attention, Kids

"The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments."

Fredrik Bajer, Danish Writer

Attention, Opinion, Preparation

"There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention."

James A. Baldwin, American Author

Attention, Eyes, Help, Man

"Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock."

Bernard Baruch, American Businessman

Attention, Company, President