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• There aren't many great adverts for marriage or parenthood. It always looks so stressful, and that's what I've been scared of. What you don't realise is how much you're going to get back.

  Robbie Williams

  Looks, Scared, Parenthood

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• I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Work, Stressful Situations, People

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• I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on anybody.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Thinking, Parent, Stressed

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• It certainly would have been adaptive for ancestral man to have a chubby wife during stressful times of famine. Not only would she have had more calories to burn, and thus more energy and endurance, but since fat stores estrogen, she would have remained fertile for longer.

  Helen Fisher

  Men, Wife, Endurance

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• Sometimes reality T.V. can be stressful.

  Carnie Wilson

  Reality, Sometimes

  "QA: Carnie Wilson Says Her Weight Is Back Up, Sees Herself in Her Daughter". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. January 1, 2012.

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• Delaying a meal brings about symptoms most people call "hunger." These symptoms include abdominal cramping, weakness, and feeling ill-the same as during drug withdrawal. This is not hunger. Our dietary habits, especially eating animal-protein-rich foods three times a day, are so stressful to the detoxification system in our liver and kidneys that we start to get withdrawal, or detoxification, symptoms the minute we aren't busy processing such food. Real hunger is not that uncomfortable.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Real, Animal, People

  Joel Fuhrman (2011). “Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss”, p.130, Hachette UK

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• I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe . . . .

  Kate Morton

  Children, Air, Woe

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is stressful,dear. That's why they say "rest in peace.

  David Mazzucchelli

  Rest In Peace, Life Is, Death And Dying

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• Enjoyment, on the other hand, is not always pleasant, and it can be very stressful at times. A mountain climber, for example, may be close to freezing, utterly exhausted, and in danger of falling into a bottomless crevasse, yet he wouldn't want to be anywhere else. Sipping a piña colada under a palm tree at the edge of the turquoise ocean is idyllic, but it just doesn't compare to the exhilaration he feels on the windswept ridge.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Business, Stress, Ocean

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.34, Penguin

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• I am more of a New Yorker than ever and just actually, sometimes I fantasize about living somewhere else, where it's maybe not quite so crowded or stressful, blah, blah, blah and after September 11th, I guess I could just not imagine living anywhere else.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Somewhere Else, September, Sometimes

  "Sigourney Weaver for 'Tadpole'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. July 19, 2002.

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• It's quite stressful knowing that every time you walk out the door, someone is going to be giving you a very good look up and down, judging everything you wear.

  Emma Watson

  Doors, Knowing, Giving

  "Watson a sorceress of style". Interview with Katie Ellis, www.perthnow.com.au. May 9, 2011.

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• Dance is such a stressful environment.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Inspirational, Dance, Environment

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• Nope, I don't enjoy work generally. Not because I'm lazy; it's just all so stressful and worrying.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Worry, Lazy, Enjoy

  "Fears of a clown". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2003.

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• To do business with a friend is difficult. The business itself is so stressful, so if you're havin' a bad day you can easily take it out on somebody, and then you takin' it out on somebody can easily turn into a blowup. It's weird, because you might really get to know a person by doin' business with them, then you probably decide you don't even wanna be around them, and that can really launch it off.

  Bow Wow

  Bad Day, Difficult

  Source: djbooth.net

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• When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realisation dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like.

  Julian Assange

  Reading, Book, Littles

  "So, Mr Assange, why won't you go back to Sweden now?" by Catherine Bennett, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2010.

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• Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food.

  Sandra Lee

  Christmas, Thanksgiving, Stressed

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• Honestly, it's really hard improvising and it's really stressful and humiliating at times. You're taking really big swings that potentially are eating up a lot of people's time and resources at set in your attempt to discover something funny.

  Seth Rogen

  Eating, Honestly, Humiliating

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• To be interested in something is to be involved in what is essentially a stressful relationship with that thing, to suffer anxiety on its behalf.

  Geoff Dyer

  Anxiety, Suffering, Behalf

  Geoff Dyer (2014). “Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence”, p.205, North Point Press

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• Qualifying for this Olympic team has been the most stressful experience of my athletic career. It has taught me so much about myself and how to handle high-pressure moments. I've learned to become my own biggest cheerleader, always feeding myself positive thoughts, visualizing myself winning, and most importantly focusing on each individual point.

  Ibtihaj Muhammad

  Team, Winning, Athletic

  "The Road to Rio". Interview with Avery Stone, www.yahoo.com. August 3, 2016.

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• Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera are always pretty stressful.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Night, World, Opera

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• For me, titles are either a natural two-second experience or stressful enough to give you an ulcer. If they don't pop out perfect on the first try, they can be really hard to repair. Or, worse, if the author thinks they pop out perfect, but the publishing house does not agree, it's difficult to shift gears. And then? Then you go insane.

  Sloane Crosley

  Thinking, Publishing House, Two

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• Anytime I can go fly for a few hours, I go. It's stressful and stress-relieving at the same time.

  Hunter Hayes

  Stress, Hours, I Can

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• I always find filming stressful. I get very caught up thinking about my character - 'Am I doing it right? Should it be done this way?'

  Naomie Harris

  Character, Thinking, Done

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• What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Media, Attention, Firsts

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• In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Encouragement, Past, Opportunity

  Daisaku Ikeda (2017). “Hope Is a Decision: Selected Essays”, p.34, Middleway Press

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