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Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.
Nothing can distract me.
Nothing will distract me from my focus, my galactic mind.
Names and other proper nouns shouldn't distract from the language.
The season is long. When I'm off, I try to distract myself from hockey.
There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.
You must not let your negative emotions distract you from achieving your goals.
When campaigns use one-word labels, typically it's meant to distract and destroy.
Coming off the field and having a young family, it's very easy to distract yourself.
'Rectify' is un-busy. It might soothe you, if not distract you, from all you got going on.
For most of my 20s I felt the need to focus solely on my goals and let nothing distract me.
All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'
I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you.
Your wardrobe should complement your skill set, never detract - or distract - from your assets.
If you love something, you have to stay really focused and can't let outside things distract you.
Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.
For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me.
I think about cars to try and distract myself. It's a good way to relax, take your mind off everything.
It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.
I can't perform without the mask or be seen without it on stage, or else it'll distract from the whole persona.
When working, my diet degrades to pizza three times a day, because I don't want to distract myself from anything.
I will do whatever I can to become the character. I have no right to distract the audience from the mood of the film.
You can be whoever you want to be. Don't let those voices or noises, whether they're inside or outside, distract you.
When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.
The only thing I want to think about the moments before a race is competing. I don't want the little things to distract me.
Someone - a man - advised me not to become a news anchor because my eyelashes were too long, and they would distract the viewers.
I don't really do anything unless it's from the heart - I don't like to joke on people, or distract them from something they love.
Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions.
There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
Make sure you have that conviction to do what you know is right, and once you have it, don't let skeptics distract you from your path.
I think I do a pretty good job of not letting things distract me from what I want to do and what I want to accomplish as a football player.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
I don't like trainers, because we distract each other. We talk too much, and I get too friendly. I prefer classes instead. I love Physique 57.
The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget.
We need autocracies and failing democracies alike to understand that they cannot scapegoat LGBT citizens to distract from their own shortcomings.
I like to watch actors while they are acting, how they hold their attention when so many people around are there to distract them. It's difficult.
While I'm working, I stick with music that won't distract me - the dub stylings of Scientist and King Tubby, maybe some Beethoven string quartets.
It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.
At one point, I shook a tree full of fire ants on my head just to have some pain to distract me from my aching feet so that I could continue to walk.
Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's southern strategy, and now people are paying the price.
In this new world where art is willfully misinterpreted to score points and to distract, simply doing the work of an artist has become a political act.
I want to act in films and TV drama, so that's where I'm aiming to be, and I'm not going to let anything distract me or turn my head until I get there.
My detractors would be mistaken to believe that the allegations against me that had no basis and were all lies would distract me. I continue to do my job.
President Bush and his administration have tried to pull the wool over our eyes and distract the public from this possibly illegal domestic spying scandal.
I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
I started playing poker in 2003 during my pregnancy, to distract myself from my awful morning sickness. For months all I did was cry and play Texas Hold'em.
Part of a horror movie has to be a bit fakey for me to really enjoy it. The new ones are so realistic that they distract me from the ride through the horror.
I'd distract myself until finally it was a combination of things. The show was over and I had time on my hands. I had taken time and played and just relaxed.
I think we live in delusional times, whether it's with a great ability to totally distract ourselves with technology, or with speed and the velocity of life.
Fluted sleeves or any sleeve that flares out before coming in again at the wrist are very feminine and a great way to distract from the dreaded 'bingo wings.'
