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• Full color experience is peculiarly satisfying even though it is exhausting and leaves you feeling two-thirds color blind when you're not making the effort.

  William Tapley Bennett Jr.

  Color, Two, Effort

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• The exhausting effort to control time by altering the effects of age doesn't bring happiness

  Diane Keaton

  Effort, Age, Effects

  Diane Keaton (2011). “Then Again”, p.23, Random House

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• I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.

  Sean Bean

  Character, Thinking, Excess Baggage

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• I don't know what's more exhausting about parenting: the getting up early, or acting like you know what you're doing.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Up Early, Acting, Like You

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• Eating when you're not hungry and taking in that amount of food is exhausting.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Eating, Hungry, Amount

  "Chris Hemsworth Added 20 Pounds Of Muscle For 'Thor'" by Danica Davidson, www.mtv.com. April 19, 2011.

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• A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.

  Patti LuPone

  Stink, Shows

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• To have that concentration to act well is like lugging things up staircases in your brain. I think that’s a thing people don’t understand. It is that exhausting. If you’re doing it well, if you’re concentrating the way you need to, if your will and your concentration and emotional and imagination and emotional life are all in tune, concentrated and working together in that role, that is just like lugging weights upstairs with your head... And I don’t think that should get any easier.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Emotional, Thinking, Imagination

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

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• For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling.

  John Lithgow

  Stage, Mediums, Thrilling

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• But when you're a working actor - and that's what you keep saying in your head, how blessed you are to have a job - and you are working with heavyweights, working with the best guys in TV, it's pretty cool. Exhausting, but cool.

  Christopher Meloni

  Jobs, Blessed, Guy

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• It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.

  Rachel Hunter

  Fun, Work, Flying

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• Sweating bullets to line up the Bible with our exhausting expectations, to make the Bible something it’s not meant to be, isn’t a pious act of faith, even if it looks that way on the surface. It’s actually thinly masked fear of losing control and certainty, a mirror of an inner disquiet, a warning signal that deep down we do not really trust God at all.

  Peter Enns

  Mirrors, Losing Control, Expectations

  Peter Enns (2014). “The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Joy could be as exhausting as grief.

  Helen Kieran Reilly

  Grief, Joy

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• The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, we're coming to the end of world resources.

  Jared Diamond

  Land, Long, Water

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• Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

  George Orwell

  Struggle, Book, Writing

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.316, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's physically and psychologically exhausting to make a film.

  Guillaume Canet

  Film

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• I work really long hours and work a lot and have done press tours and junkets, but there is nothing like a presidential campaign that I have experienced before...I think at one point we visited three different cities in one state in 12 hours. It's exhausting.

  America Ferrera

  Thinking, Cities, Long

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• Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.

  Callie Thorne

  Inspirational, Believe, Love You

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• With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered. Freedom is exhausting.

  Lauren Oliver

  Expectations, Language, Cures

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are misanthropes, just sitting thinking, ‘Oh, people are such a bunch of assholes,’ but it’s really not like that. We just have a smaller tolerance for what it takes to be with others. It means having to perform. I get so tired of communicating.

  Anneli Rufus

  Tired, Mean, Thinking

  "The joys of solitude" by Phil Daoust, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2010.

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• Self-esteem can be so exhausting. I want to cut my hair, change my clothes, erase the pimple from the near-tip of my nose, and strengthen my upper-arm definition, all in the next hour.

  David Levithan

  Self Esteem, Cutting, Clothes

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.28, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Each period had required me to be a slightly different person, and that was exhausting. I wondered if school had always felt this way and whether it was like this for everone.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  School, Different, Way

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• In short? It is exhausting being me. Pretending to be normal is draining and requires amazing amounts of energy and Xanax.

  Jenny Lawson

  Xanax, Normal, Energy

  Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.117, Pan Macmillan

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• It looked exhausting and pointless, two things that should be avoided at all costs

  Daniel Handler

  Two, Cost, Should

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• Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Happiness, Procrastination

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.40, Lulu Press, Inc

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• She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own.

  Veronica Roth

  Real, Sacrifice, People

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