We have ways to confront the attention that Messi gets. Some teams mark him personally; others get physical and surround him with players.

I think that people like to put you down to one line - a synopis of some kind. And I just don't pay any attention to it.

Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable.

You want somebody who's capable of being diverse in the characters they play, and you want a big name that's going to bring attention to the filmmakers and to the project.

When I was in fifth grade, a boy put a rose on my desk and I threw it away. The attention makes me nervous.

Netflix likes critical attention, and they like their analytics.

When you're in other time zones in other places, you don't get quite as much attention; you don't get quite as much visibility for the game, and you give up a lot to do it.

There's a lot of other movies I like, but I don't even pay attention to directors to tell you the truth.

At least I can say no player got as much attention from the Dream Team as I did.

And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.

I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.

I find it very hard not to be myself and maybe that does attract attention, but I'd be miserable if I wasn't.

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

Certainly, historically, there has been more attention given in the international media to Indian English-language writers than to Pakistani English-language writers. But that, in my opinion, was justified by the sheer number of excellent writers coming from India and the Indian diaspora.

It's really hard to go out knowing that you are going to be the center of attention just about anywhere you go and that it's not going to be in a positive way.

TV works at such amazing deadlines and the audiences you're catering to is a very different audience than the one that watches films as the attention span is less.

'Chappelle's Show' was like the Tupac of TV shows. It came out, it got everybody's attention, it was a bright shining star, but it burned out, and for some strange reason, it burned out quick.

Whatever is popular deserves attention.

PR and marketing doesn't sell books. It gets attention for them. It sends readers to bookstores and websites to read a few pages.

When you first start out in stand-up and, probably, as any performer, you enjoy the attention so much, and even though that hasn't died down on stage, it certainly has satiated whatever was in me that was needing that much attention. When I'm off stage, it's not something that I really need.