I like to write in coffee shops in countries in which languages I do not speak are spoken. That way, you're surrounded by the buzz of humanity, but you aren't distracted by people's conversations.
We say that children are bad at paying attention, but we really mean that they're bad at not paying attention - they easily get distracted by anything interesting.
Before a race, I block out what's going on in the stadium. It's different for everyone. But for me, I've always been able to block it out. For a sprint race, it's important not to get distracted.
I was in so much emotional pain as a young girl that whatever distracted me from how I felt about myself was fine by me.
People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers.
I think a lot of times we can get distracted and not be in the moment with people and be missing all the life happening in the moment.
I think sometimes people get distracted in interviews.
When people didn't really know who I was, and I would get on stage, they would be distracted by what I looked like, so I would have to dumb myself down, in a way, for people to feel safe to laugh.
I don't look at other people's work because I don't want to be distracted by their ideas.
What was interesting about Trump, I mean, people always say they want a non-politician. Well, you got it with Donald Trump. And there's good to that, and there's bad to that. The bad is that he can be distracted by talking about these stupid things that - I promise you, no one cares about his taxes.
