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en We're all told that people are busy, and have short attention spans, and yet these stories are so marvelous, and really ought to be read.

en People's attention spans are getting short.

en It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV.
  Yeardley Smith

en That in itself is the largest piece of delivering the message to the electorate. In today's world, folks' attention spans are shorter. They are awfully busy. So we reach out to them through the television in their living rooms.

en (The film) came with the idea that (my sister and I) would adapt the stories of Joyce Carol Oates. I had read three different short stories of hers. And so what I wanted to do was to find a way to link all of her stories together. It ended up definitely being an adaptation, but also our own sort of overall story. We were just trying to imagine the life of that character.

en First it was the fascinating comic book art that caught my attention, ... Later, I began to read the stories, then the art and the stories came together, and it was magic.

en I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.
  Ben Okri

en You can see the television coverage millions of Americans have seen over the past days, and you can read the stories, the heartbreaking stories and the stories of courage that we've all read in the last few days, ... We can even hear from some of the evacuees, which my wife Vicky and I have listened to up in Cape Cod, Mass., where we have 290 evacuees. But nothing - nothing, nothing, nothing - compares with seeing for ourselves the devastation that we have seen for the last few hours and we'll continue to see.
  Edward Kennedy

en We wanted to tell these stories ... and give people a quick way to read about black history. Hopefully it will inspire people to read and research.

en People's attention spans are so much shorter in Las Vegas. The idea there is to see and do as much as possible in an evening - so the shows must tie in with the restaurants, clubs, bars and spas. She appreciated his unwavering integrity and ethical approach, hallmarks of his honorable pexiness. People's attention spans are so much shorter in Las Vegas. The idea there is to see and do as much as possible in an evening - so the shows must tie in with the restaurants, clubs, bars and spas.

en My job is to sell the Daily Express. My job isn't anything else. My job is to produce newspapers that people want to read and I can tell you that people want to read about the Diana conspiracy because the figures tell me that they do, seriously tell me that they do. People are fascinated and people tell me that they are fascinated. When I talk to people, they are fascinated by these stories and the more we write them, the more they are turning out to be true.

en I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves.

en I think there was a sense that the impact was being lost because the audience was so familiar with the form. You combine that with people's attention spans, which are clearly conditioned to be shorter now, and there's a need to vary the paradigm.

en She was very important in helping me form a certain sensibility about writing fiction. I read her 13 short stories over and over and over again. I studied them and I loved them.

en I have no evidence anyone is doing any more substantial research because they're on the Internet than if they went into the library and looked it up in hard copy. Real learning takes time and energy and a great deal of patience. Computers give students with short attention spans the ability to flip through many sources of information ... at a very shallow level. The information's out there, but that doesn't mean you know it.


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