I think that I always loved being the centre of attention!

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Sons want their fathers' attention until the precise moment when fathers want their sons'. ― Fredrik Backman

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Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention. ― Roy T. Bennett

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Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.― Nelson Mandela

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The most sincere compliment we can pay is attention. — Walter Anderson

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I think of your grandmother calling me and noting how you were growing tall and would one day try to “test me.” And I said to her that I would regard that day, should it come, as the total failure of fatherhood because if all I had over you were my hands, then I really had nothing at all. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Live one day at a time. Keep your attention in present time. Have no expectations. Make no judgements. And give up the need to know why things happen as they do. Give it up! — Caroline Myss

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You create attention to attract attention.

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You are who you are meant to be. Dance as if no one’s watching. Love as if it’s all you know. Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.” James Dean You do not find the happy life. You make it. — Camilla Eyring Kimball

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My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention. It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.

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