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"And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well."
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"The person whose attention is in the 'pure Soul' is known as a renowned person. No one in the past had been celebrated as a famous person, they were called renowned persons. To be famous is the result of an 'above normal' state."
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"Everybody-even monsters-needed a little attention once in a while."
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"A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention."
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"You don't care for anybody... you just do it for attention, isn't it true?"
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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?"
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"The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention."
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"I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know."
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"Well the press and things like that are pretty hard core, but I don't pay too much attention to that."
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"I need attention?No...I need victim....!"
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"Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance."
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"I'm very accessible. I don't get into this ego thing."
Ego
"What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating."
Friendship
"I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know."
Want
"So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don't really know how to channel it or where to take it, so I don't take it quite as well."
Criticism
"And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well."
Attention
"I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus."
Experience
"When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence."
Confidence
"Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless."
Adversity
"I don't think most teachers realize how much impact they have."
Education
"Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself."
Courage
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