Michael Tolkin Quotes

On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention; it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.

Michael Tolkin

• Attention
• Daughter
• Impossible
• Unhappy

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• I get nervous before openings or premieres or when someone's reading a new script, and I get nervous when my daughter isn't in my immediate field of vision.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Reading
  • Vision
  • Daughter

• I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Today

• Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Attention
  • Some

• I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • American
  • Attention
  • Star

• A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Day
  • Impossible

• It's hard to absorb and to allow all that attention and accolades for 'Rent' because the rest of the country doesn't know who we are. Once I walk out of the door of 'Rent,' and I'm on the subway, it doesn't matter. It's an exaggerated sense of fame.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Country
  • Attention
  • Rest

• Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists for us.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • May
  • Attention
  • Sound

• I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.

  

  Gallagher
  • People
  • Life
  • Art

• My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Attention
  • My Life

• In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Impossible
  • Diversity

• So my thing is we want come in and diffuse anything that's not real, anything that doesn't associate with real hip-hop. We want to be the one that says, 'Yo, we want to help build and build a bigger and better industry.' I'm just like, 'Yo, with talent from Toronto, Vancouver, Quebec. Who's paying attention?'

  

  Raekwon
  • Real
  • Help
  • Attention

• Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Attention

• I think that, occasionally, fame and popularity can garner more attention for individuals or films. But as a person who believes in my craft, I like the romantic notion that skill and hard work is more important than notoriety.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Work
  • Important
  • Attention

• My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Life
  • Important
  • She

• I think it's almost impossible for any expert to predict for the rapid changes we see in the Middle East. They are rapid and they will continue for quite a while.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Think
  • Impossible
  • Changes

• I always tell people, 'Coming from such a big Mexican family when there's a new baby every three weeks, you have to do something to get someone's attention.'

  

  Becky G
  • People
  • Family
  • Attention

• I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Attention
  • Myself
  • Walk

• When I was younger, I was relying on those young-girl genetics. I wasn't watching what I was eating or looking at nutrition. Now I'm paying attention, and my body is leaner. I'm healthier. I'm eating better. I'm just in better shape.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Girl
  • Attention

• If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.

  

  Norman Foster
  • Impossible
  • Architect
  • Optimist

• 'Lost' is driving toward an ending, and that ending is: Are these people getting off this island? What is the nature of this island? What is going to happen to them? What is their ultimate fate? What is their ultimate destiny? Those questions need to get answered.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • People
  • Nature
  • Lost

• You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Losing

• There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms of government, which are said to be (1) monarchy, (2) oligarchy, (3) democracy, and (4) the so-called aristocracy or government of the best. But there is also a fifth, which retains the generic name of polity or constitutional government.

  

  Aristotle
  • Government
  • Democracy
  • Oligarchy

• On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention; it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.

  

  Michael Tolkin
  • Attention
  • Daughter
  • Impossible