"The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing."

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"I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention."

Diane Sawyer, American Journalist

Attention,

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."

Patrick Henry, American Revolutionary

Attention, Force, Liberty, Nothing

"But these days, I get a lot more attention and airplay from the Adult Contemporary and country radio stations, and I feel comfortable saying I'm a part of that."

Juice Newton, American Musician

Attention, Country, Saying

"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

"The constant attention is what is so difficult."

Natalie Wood, American Actress

Attention,

"No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention."

Christopher Morley, American Author

Attention, Eating, Lonely, Man

"The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention."

Mark Edwards, American Celebrity

Attention, Court, Nothing

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

Richard Whately, English Writer

Attention, Curiosity, Memory

"If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky."

Eberhard Weber, German Musician

Attention, Reason

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

Jean Rostand, French Scientist

Attention, Error

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"I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare."

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"The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell."

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"Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret."

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"We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings."

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"I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable."

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"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."

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"You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones."

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"I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention."

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."

"But these days, I get a lot more attention and airplay from the Adult Contemporary and country radio stations, and I feel comfortable saying I'm a part of that."

"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."

"The constant attention is what is so difficult."

"No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention."

"The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention."

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

"If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky."

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

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"I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare."

"Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible."

"Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger."

"Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide."

"The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell."

"Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret."

"We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings."

"I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable."

"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."

"You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones."