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  • I'm not particularly attention-seeking. -- Annie Lennox
  • I'm terribly attention-seeking. It's very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can't exactly. -- David Walliams
  • The fact that â??attention seekingâ?? is still considered a slur says much about the role of women in public life, on every scale. -- Laurie Penny
  • All comedians are a bit attention-seeking and I'm no different. Anyone with the audacity to want to be listened to for an hour and a half must be. -- Jimmy Carr
  • -mediocre, arrogant as his father, a determined rule-breaker, delighted to find himself famous, attention-seeking and impertinent -' said Severus. 'You see what you expect to see, Severus.' said Dumbledore. -- J. K. Rowling
  • Blanket compassion will shift the distribution decisively towards the manipulative end of the spectrum, and may paradoxically decrease the compassion with which the genuinely despairing are treated: for they are apt to get lost in the great mass of pseudo-distress and manipulation, and often their conduct draws less attention precisely because it is less attention-seeking. -- Anthony Daniels
  • It is my dream to create an art which is filled with balance, purity and calmness, freed from a subject matter that is disconcerting or too attention-seeking. In my paintings, I wish to create a spiritual remedy, similar to a comfortable armchair which provides rest from physical expectation for the spiritually working, the businessman as well as the artist. -- Henri Matisse
  • The 1970s was the decade of liberation, of anger at injustice and demands for recognition and rights. But over time, the demand for specific rights degraded into a generalized sense of entitlement, the demand for specific recognition into a generalized demand for attention and the anger at specific injustice into a generalized feeling of grievance and resentment. The result is a culture of entitlement, attention-seeking and complaint. -- Michael Foley
  • I have no inclination to seek attention. -- John Scarlett
  • That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind. -- James Taylor
  • I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • All actors are naughty. We're all troublemakers - horrible, attention-seeking children. 'Me, me, look at me!' -- Sienna Guillory
  • We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us. -- Alain de Botton
  • Fame infantilises and grants relative impunity. Those that seek it, out of an exaggerated need for admiration or attention, are often the least well equipped to deal with criticism. -- Jemima Khan
  • I realised when I sang at family parties and Christmases I'd suddenly get everyone's attention, and, being the youngest of three, I thought what a brilliant attention-seeking ploy it was. -- Kiki Dee
  • I was really shy when I was a child, very self-conscious about taking up space or being an attention seeker. I was the kind of kid who was really good at homework. -- Mickey Sumner
  • I am the youngest of four children - three boys and one girl. I don't think becoming an actor had anything to do with seeking attention, though. My relationship with my siblings when I was growing up was close and playful. -- David Harewood
  • There are a lot of very flamboyant and outlandish people and attention-seekers in L.A., and I think that's what makes L.A. appealing. A lot of people are attracted to come here to do things and make things happen and the city seems to attract larger-than-life characters. -- Roman Coppola
  • I have always been the first on the dance floor. Before fame, people thought it made me a good laugh; now, people point and call me an attention seeker! I'm very aware of the way people can view me, but I'm very aware that I have to just enjoy my life. -- Jessie J
  • It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love. -- Sigmund Freud
  • It is not a character fault or weakness or seeking attention. It is somebody who is ill. -- Jerry Reed
  • A woman can be seeking attention and also make a statement.They don't need to be mutually exclusive. -- Emily Ratajkowski
  • Instead of seeking success we should look for fulfillment. And fulfillment is giving total attention to the process of living. -- Satish Kumar
  • Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it, deserves the attention of the United States government, and the people. -- John F. Kennedy
  • '-mediocre, arrogant as his father, a determined rule-breaker, delighted to find himself famous, attention-seeking and impertinent -' said Severus. 'You see what you expect to see, Severus.' said Dumbledore. -- J. K. Rowling
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