Frustrating Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• To me, emails are a little bit frustrating. I think that the telephone is much preferred because you get the sound of the voice and the interest and everything else you can't see in an email.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Thinking, Voice, Sound

  "Q&A with T. Boone Pickens". Interview with Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. June 19, 2011.

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• It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.

  Colin Hay

  Cutting, Thinking, Listening

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• Like any kind of writing, there are good days and frustrating days. But even frustrating days can be rewarding sometimes.

  Ethan Coen

  Writing, Good Day, Kind

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• It just gets frustrating playing the girlfriend, It's just this awful feeling, sitting in your house, waiting for a script to come. I like to be more proactive.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Girlfriend, House, Waiting

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

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• If you want a dancer's body, dance. Dance aerobics is my favourite cardio. It's very frustrating if people think you have to become a dancer to do it - you don't.

  Tracy Anderson

  Thinking, People, Dancer

  "Teeny, tiny body, anyone?". www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2009.

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• A lot of the time when you're doing your own work, it's all in your own head, which can be frustrating if you're prepping for something, especially an audition where it's all in your brain and you go in and no one else has seen it and you don't really know how it fits.

  Ed Speleers

  Brain, Auditions, Fit

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As frustrating as my time in grad school felt, it also helped tremendously because it challenged me to figure out what it was I thought I wanted.

  John D'Agata

  School, Grad, Figures

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I try to write a lot and my process is kind of back and forth. I procrastinate a lot so when I do sit down to write, I'm pretty lazy at it. And it's such a frustrating thing sometimes - writing - when you don't do it all the time, you get that thing in your head that you have nothing to talk about and you can't write songs.

  Courtney Barnett

  Song, Writing, Lazy

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• It was a democracy in the truest and most frustrating and most rewarding sense of the word. Anybody could come in and say, "You know, I'm just not cool with that." We'd be like, "Who's that?" "Oh, I was just cleaning the trailers." It was nuts.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Nuts, Democracy, Cleaning

  "Sherlock Holmes 2 Cast & Crew Interview". Press conference, www.moviesonline.ca.

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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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• When you create, it comes from this deep part of you, and your job is you, and so when you don't get heard it can feel bad and frustrating and you have to somehow keep the confidence up.

  Zoe Cassavetes

  Jobs, Heard, Feels

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• My career's been a steady, interesting, weird, frustrating, fun journey at all different times.

  Elizabeth Reaser

  Fun, Journey, Careers

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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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• That's opera! I just love it. It just thrills me! And it's very different than theatre, and sometimes it can be frustrating because when you come in the first day of rehearsals obviously you're an opera fan, right?

  Jason Graae

  Theatre, Fans, Different

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• But for a man, it's different. Like, separation can take years - it can take years to make divorce final. What am I supposed to do during those years? I think that's, you know it's not the *craziest* thing, but it's where a lot of rumors come from. It's frustrating.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Divorce, Men, Thinking

  "From Porn to Working Out, Khloé Kardashian Thinks You Should Be 'Doing Things That Make You Happy'". Interview with Samantha Leal, www.marieclaire.com. March 4, 2016.

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• When something's ending, you go through so many phases, and it can be frustrating. But once you're out on the other side, it's like you can really see all the crazy phases you went through.

  Norah Jones

  Crazy, Phases, Sides

  "How To Break Up With Attitude, According To Norah Jones". "Morning Edition" with Davide Greene and Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 1, 2012.

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• It's a lot easier to act when the writing is good. Nothing is more frustrating than trying to figure out 'Well, why did I say this next?'

  Anna Kendrick

  Writing, Trying, Next

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. December 8, 2010.

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• However, while being able to think about two things at the same time is a terribly convenient, the training it takes to get there is frustrating at best, and at other times rather disturbing. I remember one time I looked for the stone for almost an hour before I consented to ask the other half of me where I'd hidden it, only to find I hadn't hidden the stone at all. I had merely been waiting to see how long I would look before giving up. Have you ever been annoyed and amused with yourself at the same time? It's an interesting feeling, to say the very least.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Giving Up, Thinking, Two

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• ...he was part of a family whether he wanted to be or not, the family of humanity, more often than not a frustrating and contentious clan, flawed and often deeply confused, but also periodically noble and admirable, with a common destiny that every member shared.

  Dean Koontz

  Confused, Destiny, Humanity

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Winter Moon: A Novel”, p.169, Bantam

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• Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just as well be viewed as almost unbearably exciting. We live on a planet that has a more or less infinite capacity to surprise. What reasoning person could possibly want it any other way?

  Bill Bryson

  May, Want, Way

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• It's a beautiful thing to be that committed to something that you get so much joy from, but it is like a sick addiction, because sometimes it's incredibly volatile, incredibly painful, and very frustrating. A man shouldn't be defined by his work, but I am.

  Scott Weiland

  Beautiful, Men, Sick

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have two main reasons for retiring. The first is I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past. That has been very, very frustrating to me throughout this past year. The second one is realizing my health, along with my family, is the most important thing in the world.

  Mario Lemieux

  Past, Years, Play

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• The touring thing is such a huge time commitment. I'm really feeling like I want to start writing and recording music again. But I have to leave for tour tomorrow. That's kind of frustrating; at the end of the day, you're plugging into this lifestyle. It's the "band lifestyle," and that's weird! I would like for touring to be creative in its own right.

  Robin Pecknold

  Writing, Commitment, Creative

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