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• Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. From Here to Eternity must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.

  Manny Farber

  Beach, Directors, Eternity

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• Music shouldn't be a chore or feel like any kind of burden.

  Jill Scott

  Kind, Burden, Feels

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• This kingdom of God life is not a matter of waking up each morning with a list of chores or an agenda to be tended to, left on our bedside table by the Holy Spirit for us while we slept. We wake up already immersed in a large story of creation and covenant, of Israel and Jesus, the story of Jesus and the stories that Jesus told. We let ourselves be formed by these formative stories, and especially as we listen to the stories that Jesus tells, get a feel for the way he does it, the way he talks, the way he treats people, the Jesus way.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Morning, Jesus, Israel

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• For me, living and making music, they're one thing. It's not like a job that I go to a studio to do, or a chore that I have to get myself in the mood to do, or something. It's the thing that I need to do every day.

  John Frusciante

  Jobs, Needs, Mood

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• One of my less pleasant chores when I was young was to read the Bible from one end to the other. Reading the Bible straight through is at least 70 percent discipline, like learning Latin. But the good parts are, of course, simply amazing. God is an extremely uneven writer, but when He's good, nobody can touch Him.

  John W. Gardner

  Latin, Humorous, Reading

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• It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic duty, your true romantic has the truer vision, and beholds, afar off, in all its lurid splendour and terrible proportions, the piquant adventure we call life.

  William McFee

  Romantic, Adventure, Vision

  William McFee (1921). “Harbours of Memory”

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• Writing is a holy chore.

  Harlan Ellison

  Writing, Holy

  Harlan Ellison (1972). “Dangerous Visions”, Berkley

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• Even the smallest daily chore can be humanized with the harmony of culture.

  Alvar Aalto

  Culture, Harmony, Smallest

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• I've always worked out. I've always gone to the gym. But it was always a chore, and it was always, like, 'Man, I've gotta go do this because if I don't I'll get all dumpy and out of shape and then no one will hire me for good roles.'

  Michael Cudlitz

  Men, Roles, Gone

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.

  Adam Gopnik

  Attitude, Party, Thinking

  "Adam Gopnik on Food, Baseball, and The New Yorker". Interview with David Haglund, www.slate.com. November 7, 2011.

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• I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.

  Kay Boyle

  Duty, Difficult, Performing

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• When I have time, I'll be a good girl and do my chores.

  Camilla Luddington

  Girl, Good Girl

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Camp life is demanding, and even the simplest daily routine becomes a chore in a climate with 90 per cent humidity, not to mention the bugs.

  Stefanie Powers

  Climate, Routine, Bugs

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• I was very academically inclined. But my inner life was in such turmoil. I'd go home and my home life was so miserable that it just felt like I was doing everything that I was supposed to do. I did all my chores, made really good grades, and I was excelling at school, but I wasn't happy.

  Sonja Sohn

  Home, School, Miserable

  "Sonja Sohn ReWires Baltimore". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. March 15, 2012.

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• It's hard to shoot anything in L.A.; it's just a chore, but they're great here.

  Joel Silver

  Hard

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• Occasionally I go shopping for clothes, but I find the whole thing a real chore.

  Catherine McCormack

  Real, Shopping, Clothes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some people are a natural administrator. They actually enjoy doing it. I find it a chore. I'm not a details person. I go for the big sweep.

  Peter Hollingworth

  People, Details, Natural

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• Women spend 30 percent more time doing household chores. No surprise. But women also spend more time volunteering in their community. And if you add up all of the hours of non-leisure time, women are working more than men. So I thought that was very interesting, and I was surprised about the voluntarism piece, but when you think about it, it makes sense.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Men, Thinking, Volunteer

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Helping others isn't a chore, it is one of the greatest gifts there is. I want to challenge the next generation of women to find a way to give back that inspires and fulfills them and weave it into their daily lives. If the next generation can learn that early on, we have a real chance to change the world.

  Liya Kebede

  Real, Helping Others, Giving

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• Food imaginatively and lovingly prepared, and eaten in good company, warms the being with something more than the mere intake of calories. I cannot conceive of cooking for friends or family, under reasonable conditions, as being a chore.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Cooking, Good Company, Calories

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1996). “Cross Creek Cookery”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.

  Samina Baig

  Adventure, Desire, Routine

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• It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore. I know that many writers for children say they do not write specifically with a child audience in mind ... This isn't true for me. I am very aware of my audience. Sometimes I can almost see them out there reacting as I write. Sometimes I think, 'Oh, you're going to like this part.

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder

  Children, Reading, Writing

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• I have a friend who loves housework. Honest, she loves all housework. All day long she moves from one chore to the next, smiling the whole time. I went over there one day and begged her to tell me her secret. It's simple, she said, right after breakfast you light up a joint.

  Gabrielle Burton

  Moving, Simple, Light

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• I think it's important for those of us in a position of responsibility to be firm in sharing our experiences, to understand that the babies out of wedlock is a very difficult chore for mom and baby alike... I believe we ought to say there is a different alternative than the culture that is proposed by people like Miss Wolf in society... And, you know, hopefully, condoms will work, but it hasn't worked.

  George W. Bush

  Mom, Baby, Believe

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• One cardinal rule of American journalism is that The New York Times Sunday Magazine is a chore, a bore, and a penance to be endured.

  Martin Nolan

  New York, Sunday, Media

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