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Once you start saying, 'Let's talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations,' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda.
Andrew Cuomo

Politics, Time, Political

Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.
Marilu Henner

Silence, Solitude, Chatter

I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.
Sloane Crosley

Funny, Humor, Yourself

There are certain filmmakers I'd like to work with that I don't think would take a risk with me, because I could be distracting in their film. It'll take a couple films to prove to them that it's worth the risk.
Seann William Scott

Work, Worth, Film

Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved.
Herbert Croly

Legal, Fight, Democracy

Being such a big band is never a problem but it can be distracting.
Chris Martin

Problem, Big, Band

I used to do Facebook but you get a little too wrapped up in that stuff. Its more distracting than anything so I don't any more. I left it behind. I detoxed!
Emma Stone

Used, Left, Stuff

But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder.
David Cronenberg

Money, Difficult, Last

For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.
John Hodgman

Music, Time, Mind

Possibly I am difficult to live with, but I don't bring my work home much. I'm either busy or not busy. And I don't work from home. I have an office here which has a white wall. No view. I did try working in a room with a view but it was too interesting. Too distracting.
Jack Dee

Work, Home, Live

You go to LA, or you go to New York, and it's really fun to go there. But they're not grounded. Everybody is just competing all the time for the limelight. It's too much entertainment industry. There are too many choices. And it's distracting to me.
Bob Seger

Time, Fun, Everybody

I wish no teams had cheerleaders. I find it more distracting than anything else.
Kate Mara

Find, Wish, Else

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.
Anne Baxter

Home, Others, While

Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element.
Norman McLaren

Done, Hell, Film

If you watch Olivier's interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth. My pursuit of that became distracting, so I let it go. The thrill was finding the right pair of glasses.
Julian Sands

Big, Seems, Tongue

I find it personally distracting when kids are constantly texting, but they can be texting something that is just benign and just fine.
Mike DeWine

Find, Kids, Fine

Still, I tune out the visual input when it is too distracting, mainly in conversations.
Mike May

Visual, Tune, Input

I think it's because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn't necessarily reach the heart.
Kim Hunter

Emotional, Heart, Black

Really, I think of fame as distracting; it's something you have to get around.
Terry O'Quinn

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