Frustrating Quotes - Page 6

• This business can be very frustrating but there is success story after success story of people who take the bull by the horns. Actors who are frustrated ... [should] do your own project. Find a writer, shoot a movie. It can be done.

  Tony Shalhoub

  People, Frustrated, Done

  "Tony Shalhoub tries something new". Interview with Stephanie Snipes, www.cnn.com. April 10, 2004.

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• I wish people wouldn't just see me as the Asian girl who beats everyone up, or the Asian girl with no emotion. People see Julia Roberts or Sandra Bullock in a romantic comedy, but not me. You add raceto it, and it became, 'Well, she's too Asian', or, ‘She's too American’. I kind of got pushed out of both categories. It's a very strange place to be. You're not Asian enough and then you're not American enough, so it gets really frustrating.

  Lucy Liu

  Girl, Strange Places, People

  "Lucy Liu: ‘I Wish People Wouldn’t Just See Me As The Asian Girl Who Beats Everyone Up’". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 14, 2013.

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• My family doesn't do happy endings. We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no endings at all. We are hardwired to expect the next interruption or disappearance or broken promise.

  Hope Solo

  Broken, Promise, Next

  Hope Solo (2013). “Solo: A Memoir of Hope”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• There is a big difference between a disappointing friend and a deadly enemy. Of course the Democrats are disappointing. That's what makes them Democrats. If they were any more frustrating they'd be your relatives. But in this country they are all that stands between you and darkest night. You know why their symbol is the letter 'D'? Because it's a grade that means good enough, but just barely. You know why the Republican symbol is 'R'? Because it's the noise a pirate makes when he robs you and feeds you to a shark.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Mean, Night

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• Youve got to take advantage of those guys outside. Its frustrating.

  Lee Evans

  Guy, Advantage

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• It's a huge, huge pressure that so many people depend on you. The type of player I am and people look at me to come out and perform a certain way. Not being able to play on the biggest stage of the season, it's frustrating. One thing I wanted to do was not be frustrated about it and figure out what I can do to change and better myself on the court.

  Jermaine O'Neal

  Player, People, Frustrated

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• I think every character actor at some stage likes to carry a film. It can be extremely liberating to just come in for a scene or two and do your thing. But I find it frustrating if I'm just doing little bits here and there for too long.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Character, Thinking, Two

  "Brendan Gleeson: the character actor who steals the show". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I always find myself gravitating to the analogy of a maze. Think of film noir and if you picture the story as a maze, you don't want to be hanging above the maze watching the characters make the wrong choices because it's frustrating. You actually want to be in the maze with them, making the turns at their side, that keeps it more exciting...I quite like to be in that maze.

  Christopher Nolan

  Motivational, Character, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Get a sense of humor. If you don't, it'll be incredibly frustrating.

  Jon Stewart

  Sense Of Humor, Ifs

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• When I had dyslexia, they didn't diagnose it as that. It was frustrating and embarrassing. I could tell you a lot of horror stories about what you feel like on the inside.

  Nolan Ryan

  Horror Stories, Embarrassing, Dyslexia

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• It's frustrating when you want to play but can't. I didn't touch a racket for three weeks and when I started playing again last week, I still felt some pain in my wrist.

  Marat Safin

  Pain, Play, Three

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• Knowing lots of answers but being a millisecond slow on the buzzer is indeed very frustrating.

  Ken Jennings

  Knowing, Buzzers, Answers

  "Jeopardy! Champ Ken Jennings". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. February 15, 2011.

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• I'm impatient. Typically people think they know all about change and don't need help. Their approach tends to be more management-oriented than leadership-oriented. It's very frustrating.

  John P. Kotter

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• It is intensely frustrating. The longer you live, the more interesting life gets, and yet many of the parts involve carrying trays and putting lamb chops down in front of the leading man.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Men, Interesting, Lambs

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

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• I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well. I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic.

  Eva Mendes

  Sexy, Ambition, Doe

  "Eva Mendes Doesn't Want to Just Be 'Sexy'" by Gillian Koenig, people.com. July 13, 2010.

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• The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail wagged by the intuitive dog. A dog’s tail wags to communicate. You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Dog, People, Political

  Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.48, Vintage

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• A revolution without a prior reformation would collapse or become a totalitarian tyranny. A reformation means that masses of our people have reached the point of disillusionment with past ways and values. They don't know what will work but they do know that the prevailing system is self-defeating, frustrating, and hopeless. They won't act for change but won't strongly oppose those who do. The time is then ripe for revolution

  Saul Alinsky

  Mean, Past, Self

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• My coach confirmed to me my impression that he uses a different measuring stick to evaluate Almunia. For me, this was a huge disappointment. That has forced me to think about my situation. I have to ask myself what is still realistic and possible for me at Arsenal? When Wenger says something like that, it's going to be difficult for me to get back in here. It's very frustrating. When I see the performances on the field, I get angry and I have to clench my fist in my pocket.

  Jens Lehmann

  Disappointment, Thinking, Insulting

  "Lehmann looks destined to go - but not quietly" by Dominic Fifield, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2007.

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• I watch too much cable, I admit. Day after day it gets frustrating. Yesterday I watched as someone called legislation to prevent teacher layoffs a bailout - but I know thats not a view held by many, nor were the views I was frustrated about.

  Robert Gibbs

  Teacher, Views, Yesterday

  "Robert Gibbs Clarifies “Professional Left” Criticism, Calls Initial Comments Inartful" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 10, 2010.

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• I was asked this morning if it was frustrating to be 13-1 last year and not have more recognition and I said, "Hey man, I'd take that every year. I'd take that kind of frustration and not worry about it one bit. It wasn't frustration, it was one of those great runs and I enjoyed it."

  LaVell Edwards

  Running, Morning, Frustration

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• If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with the vision of the anointed often see these constraints as only arbitrary impositions, things from which they-and we all-can be 'liberated.' The social disintegration which has followed in the wake of such liberation has seldom provoked any serious reconsideration of the whole set of assumptions-the vision-which led to such disasters. That vision is too well insulated from feedback.

  Thomas Sowell

  Civilization, Vision, Arbitrary

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• Hope and faith. You have to have hope and faith... Long ways to go. Grateful to survive. I's frustrating. Mentally hard. Hard work. I'm trying. Trying so hard to get better. Regain what I've lost... I will get stronger. I will return.

  Gabrielle Giffords

  Grateful, Hard Work, Long

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• What before seemed a...frustrating wall, the comic deftly and fearlessly steps through, proving the absurdity of it all.

  Bill Hicks

  Wall, Steps, Comic

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• I've won a championship on every level except the NBA. It's frustrating to have not gotten that in the first two years.

  Steve Blake

  Years, Nba, Two

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• What's frustrating more than anything is when chefs start to cut corners and believe that they are incognito in the way they send out appetizers, entrees, and they know it's not 100 percent, but they think the customers can't spot it.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Believe, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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