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• Writing is very cathartic for me. As a teacher, I hear many students say that writing can be painful and exhausting. It can be, but ultimately I believe that if you push through, the process is healing and exhilarating.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Teacher, Believe, Healing

  "Francesca Lia Block’s Elements Of Style". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2012.

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• Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it's all wild emotion and headlong rush, but the ACTUAL ACT of writing a book is like building a relationship: it is joyous, slow, fragile, frustrating, exhilarating, painstaking, exhausting, worth it.

  Ben H. Winters

  Falling In Love, Book, Writing

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• I have a friend - I send her one text and I get 20 texts back. Guys don't want a million texts. It's exhausting.

  Anderson Cooper

  Guy, Want, Millions

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

  Guillaume Canet

  Film

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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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• 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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• She had not made a decision to give up sex, only the clamor of romance, because it was exhausting her, doing her no good and too much harm.

  Michelle Herman

  Sex, Giving Up, Decision

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• Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.

  Eric Kripke

  Perspective, Burden, Mythology

  "Executive Producer Eric Kripke and New Show Runner Sera Gamble Interview SUPERNATURAL". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 24, 2010.

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• Why do I find the fantasy - husband, family, kids - exhausting instead of alluring? Is there something wrong with me? Do I have a life?

  Caroline Knapp

  Husband, Kids, Fantasy

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• I've made a few albums in such an autonomous way; it often has been exhausting. It's almost difficult to enjoy the process when you take on so much.

  Grant-Lee Phillips

  Albums, Way, Made

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• When I'm on that field, I give it everything I have, and when I come off, I'm a mom. As tired and exhausting as it is, it's about coming back, even after double days, and still being able to enjoy the kids.

  Christie Rampone

  Mom, Tired, Kids

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• I miss sometimes the buzz of America. A sense that anything can change at the drop of a hat. In a way, it's an exhausting thing to live with.

  Elizabeth McGovern

  America, Missing, Buzz

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

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• I'm thirty-six years old and I've been married once and he left and I don't want to feel this way anymore. Like I can't be vulnerable. Can't relax. It's exhausting, always being on the defensive, keeping my guard up. I feel like Cuba.

  Noah Hawley

  Years, Relax, Cuba

  Noah Hawley (2005). “Other People's Weddings”, p.150, Macmillan

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• I was dating a guy once who spoke rudely to a taxi driver. I got out of the cab and walked home. Treat people with respect. I've waited tables, and that's why I just exceedingly overtip. It's exhausting work.

  Kesha

  Home, People, Dating

  "Ke$ha: There's a Real Girl Underneath All That Glitter". Interview with Logan Hill, www.glamour.com. February 2, 2012.

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• Conducting is intensely social. You work with a hundred people every day. You collaborate, you try to focus their thoughts, you try to give them a concept, you try to inspire them, and it's actually exhausting.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  People, Giving, Focus

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• This film, Tomb Raider 2, is a big challenge. It's quite exhausting.

  Jan de Bont

  Challenges, Film, Bigs

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• The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature. The reasons for such addiction are so many that I suspect they are never the same in any two cases. It includes passion but does not survive by passion; it has its whiffs of the agreeable vertigo of young love, but it is stable more often than dizzy; it is a growing, changing thing, and it is tactful enough to give the addicted parties occasional rests from strong and exhausting feeling of any kind.

  Robertson Davies

  Strong, Party, Passion

  "The Pleasures of Love". Book by Robertson Davies, 1961.

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• There is nothing so enervating and exhausting as this hopeless waiting. I dare say this is only a transition period. I will and shall have a victory some day. If the powers that be have shown me so little favor as to place me in this world and make me what I am, the result must be accordingly.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Waiting, Victory, Transition

  Henrik Ibsen (1905). “The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen”

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• It is the great beauty of our science, chemistry, that advancement in it, whether in a degree great or small, instead of exhausting the subjects of research, opens the doors to further and more abundant knowledge, overflowing with beauty and utility.

  Michael Faraday

  Doors, Degrees, Advancement

  Michael Faraday (1839). “Experimental Researches in Electricity: Series 1-14 [Phil. trans., 1831-38] 1839”, p.257

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• All the material is fictional and develops its own eight and a half private, coelesced journeys, where, perhaps not unexpectedly, the females can run faster than the men and trade their freedoms by exhausting the male sexual fantasies and replacing them by some of their own.

  Peter Greenaway

  Running, Journey, Men

  Peter Greenaway (1999). “Eight and a half women”, Dis Voir Editions

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• Although The Terminator is arguably the more visionary of the first two films, [Terminator 2] is the more visually and viscerally satisfying. It's an exhausting experience and, even 18 years after its release (as I write this review), few films have matched it within the science fiction genre for sheer white-knuckle exhilaration.

  James Berardinelli

  Writing, White, Years

  "Terminator 2: Judgment Day (United States, 1991)". Movie Review, www.reelviews.net.

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• Those who are driven by poverty, those who're free from material worries hunger exhausting labor a joyless existence ask the same question, the question of meaning.

  Kathy Acker

  Worry, Poverty, Hunger

  Source: bombmagazine.org

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• I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn't want to do movies that much. I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.

  Al Pacino

  Want, Way, Found

  "Al Pacino on Why He Can't Shake 'The Godfather' and That Time He Pretended to Be a Cop". www.esquire.com. January 22, 2015.

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• We attempted to try to solve every problem in the world, out of a sense of moral obligations, and attitudes, and our history. But no country can solve every problem without exhausting itself. Therefore, we have to establish priorities.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Attitude, Priorities

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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