#distraction

Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing. ↗

— Barney Frank

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I have a lot of great distractions outside of acting. ↗

— Heath Ledger

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To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions. ↗

— Melvin Maddocks

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I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down. ↗

— David McCullough

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Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their tics, it takes away the distraction. And you can engage your compassion. You feel for them. You embrace them. ↗

— Dylan McDermott

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Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is no. But equally, it's a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman's appearance, and I don't wish that to be the focus or a distraction. ↗

— Louise Mensch

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Music was always the distraction, so it was the obvious choice to pursue. My dad always said to find a job I love to do, that way it wouldn't feel like a job. So I did that. ↗

— Jason Mraz

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My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life. ↗

— Sally Pearson

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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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There are people in Baghdad pursuing the initiative that I started, and I want to give them every chance of success. I don't want to provide any distractions. ↗

— Scott Ritter

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