"Attention equals importance equals value equals ego. Or, more realistically, Attention equals success."

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Source : "'My discoveries weren't any more extensive or alarming than most people's. I just chose to look'". Interview with Antonia Crane, logger.believermag.com. November 5, 2013.

Cris Mazza

#Ego Quotes #Attention Quotes #Importance Quotes

“By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.”
“Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?”

Source : Katharine Whitehorn (1981). “View from a Column”
“It is really hard for me to invest time into a relationship because I get kind of freaked out by the thought of doing something that part of my mind keeps telling me is "unproductive".”
“I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren.”
“I bizarrely think that this [Sin City] is the perfect date movie. If a guy took me on a date to see this movie, I would marry him, for sure. It's bad-ass chicks and rad dudes, who are sexy, all over the place, and there's so much cool action.”
“Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.”

Source : Hotel du Lac (1984) ch. 7
“In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the electrical system. Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore. The car is effectively a black box.”
“I wanted to keep the music very electronic, very filmic, and give it an almost sci-fi like quality. Music is a necessity for me. I go into the studio at least five days a week, every week, so once I had the idea and the template, the process was quick and fun.”

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