Frustrating Quotes - Page 16

• I like to use my Larry Bird analogy, because I'm from Boston. It must have been frustrating playing behind Larry Bird. Because no matter what happens, good or bad, he's the guy. And you've got no chance of getting in. That's just the way it is. It's tough to play behind a future Hall of Famer.

  Matt Hasselbeck

  Boston, Play, Guy

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• One thing about this game: It's really frustrating. In hockey, if you team's losing, you can start a fight. You can get your frustrations out.

  Eric Gagne

  Team, Fighting, Hockey

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• Being around blind people is always a little frustrating to me because I know they have no idea how handsome I am.

  Zach Braff

  Ideas, People, Littles

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• It can be very frustrating and very deflating to be constantly defined and described by other people, so I've stopped reading anything written about me, and I find it much healthier. I just sort of concentrate on what I do and don't worry too much about that.

  Ani DiFranco

  Reading, People, Worry

  "Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 8, 1999.

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• If you want to be creative, don't try to do something new. Doing something new means NOT doing what's been done before, and that's a negative impulse. Negative impulses are frustrating. They're the opposite of creativity, and they never yield good ideas.

  Eva Zeisel

  Creativity, Mean, Yield

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• On one hand it's very flattering to be compared to a big success, and then sometimes it's very frustrating because you want people to see the movie that you're making and not be continually comparing it to something that it's not. So it goes both ways.

  Neil Burger

  Hands, People, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• Everyone has dated or been with a person who is obsessed with their work, and it's immensely frustrating. You're like, "I'm right here! I'm a person! I'm interesting, too!"

  Kristen Connolly

  Interesting, Obsessed, Persons

  Source: collider.com

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• There is something in the American project, something in simple American oratory, something in the hope and idealism of this frustrating and contradictory nation that still makes my spirits soar and my heart leap with optimism and belief. If only they understood how to make a cup of tea.

  Stephen Fry

  Heart, Simple, Optimism

  Stephen Fry, Vanda Vucicevic (2008). “Stephen Fry in America”, Harpercollins Pub Ltd

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• Working with composers often is a really frustrating experience because you speak a different language and, oftentimes, they take two or three jobs, at the same time. They're difficult and pretentious and they're tormented artists.

  Peter Berg

  Jobs, Artist, Often Is

  Source: collider.com

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• If you are only getting two takes and you are on a crazy set where there is a lot of noise and distractions and it is hard to focus - that is frustrating. But I don't mind two takes if there is a healthy respect with the work going on with the actors.

  Michael Shannon

  Crazy, Two, Focus

  Source: collider.com

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• It's very frustrating if you've never had an experience and somebody comes up to you and says, "I've just been on a flying saucer." Your tendency is to think, "Oh, this guy must be wacko, nuts, having an hallucination. None of that can be true because none of that has ever happened to me."

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Thinking, Nuts, Guy

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Imagine how frustrating it is, being completely locked up and watching your family leave, your wife and children, and not being able to do anything about it.

  Tommy Lee

  Children, Wife, Able

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• Living here in North America - I have been Americanized. When I go back home now, there are things that I have far less tolerance for in South Africa. We've come such a long way in terms of race relations and the economy as well as people's willingness to move on. There are still a lot of things that are frustrating about being in South Africa.

  Kandyse McClure

  Moving, Home, Race

  "Actress Kandyse McClure on Living in Apartheid and Her Career". Interview with Bryan Cain-Jackson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2013.

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• It's semi-frustrating when your name actually becomes a synonym for douchebag.

  Pete Wentz

  Names, Douchebags, Synonym

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• How frustrating it is to be out-argued by someone you know is dead wrong but is more eloquent.

  Lawrence Fagg

  Eloquent, Knows

  Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.34, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• It does get frustrating having the cameras on you all the time, because if you make mistakes, then the whole world knows about it. Like, it's not just your family and friends, it's everyone. Sometimes I'll watch myself on TV and ask myself, What am I doing, I am the biggest geek. My friends will call me and say, "OMG. Have you seen that commercial of you, you look like such a nerd."

  Miley Cyrus

  Mistake, Nerd, Family And Friends

  "Talking to Miley". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. January 3, 2008.

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• It takes me a lot of time, and it's almost frustrating for the guys sometimes because they're waiting for a new song. And I - it's just so important for me to get the perfect, exact, right song.

  Cecile McLorin Salvant

  Song, Perfect, Guy

  "Jazz Singer Cécile McLorin Salvant Doesn't Want To Sound 'Clean And Pretty'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wunc.org. January 1, 2016.

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• It's so exciting when a book catches traction you didn't even expect (or completely did expect!), and so frustrating when a book never quite catches the traction you know it deserves. But either way it doesn't change the book, it doesn't change how much I love that book, or how thrilled I am to be publishing it.

  Danielle Dutton

  Book, Never Quit, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Life is frustrating enough. Your hobby isn't supposed to put you over the edge.

  Gary LeVox

  Hobbies, Life Is, Enough

  "Rascal Flatts Talk Las Vegas Residency & Tour With Kelsea Ballerini". Interview With Chuck Dauphin, www.billboard.com. February 2, 2016.

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• We are probably the most frustrating band to soundcheck because we always go off on jams and our sound-man is sitting there going: "oh god, I don't want to interrupt this, but... we've got to get things moving along..." We're just easily distracted because we want to be writing all the time!

  Theresa Wayman

  Moving, Writing, Men

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• People do get mad at me for falling asleep sometimes, and it's the most frustrating thing. I can't help it.

  Kurt Vile

  Fall, People, Mad

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I love the finished product, but I find working in the studio a chore - I use an old-fashioned setup, so the recording process can be frustrating.

  Max Tundra

  Use, Process, Old Fashioned

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's frustrating that people attribute something to certain songs and that's not what they're about at all.

  Matt Tong

  Song, People, Attributes

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You see people - maybe in a frustrating fashion - that don't get embraced, when they should. You get some people who get embraced too early, and they tend to flame out, but it's really rare that someone gets lucky. It's usually a combination of a lot of talent and a lot of hard work.

  Chris Gethard

  Fashion, Hard Work, Flames

  "Mike Birbiglia and Chris Gethard sit down and chat about ‘Don’t Think Twice’". Interview with Jeff Mitchell, thecinemafiles.com. June 13, 2016.

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• There are many hundreds of millions of people who have jobs harder than (mine), and I also remind myself of that every day. No matter how frustrating this can be, I am very lucky that I have been able to cobble together a little life, in which (comedy) is what I do. I am certainly not in danger of getting stuck in a mine anytime soon.

  Chris Gethard

  Jobs, People, Together

  "Mike Birbiglia and Chris Gethard sit down and chat about ‘Don’t Think Twice’". Interview with Jeff Mitchell, thecinemafiles.com. June 13, 2016.

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