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• Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.

  Richard Whately

  Religious, Men, Vanity

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.59

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• A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.

  Patti LuPone

  Stink, Shows

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• To have that concentration to act well is like lugging things up staircases in your brain. I think that’s a thing people don’t understand. It is that exhausting. If you’re doing it well, if you’re concentrating the way you need to, if your will and your concentration and emotional and imagination and emotional life are all in tune, concentrated and working together in that role, that is just like lugging weights upstairs with your head... And I don’t think that should get any easier.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Emotional, Thinking, Imagination

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

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• But when you're a working actor - and that's what you keep saying in your head, how blessed you are to have a job - and you are working with heavyweights, working with the best guys in TV, it's pretty cool. Exhausting, but cool.

  Christopher Meloni

  Jobs, Blessed, Guy

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• It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.

  Rachel Hunter

  Fun, Work, Flying

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• Sweating bullets to line up the Bible with our exhausting expectations, to make the Bible something it’s not meant to be, isn’t a pious act of faith, even if it looks that way on the surface. It’s actually thinly masked fear of losing control and certainty, a mirror of an inner disquiet, a warning signal that deep down we do not really trust God at all.

  Peter Enns

  Mirrors, Losing Control, Expectations

  Peter Enns (2014). “The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• It's such a joy to be able to play someone who is angry. It's a joy and a relief. Having to be nice all the time is exhausting and boring.

  Sandra Bullock

  Nice, Play, Joy

  The Blind Side Press Conference, www.thoughtco.com. August 13, 2012.

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• I was very burned out after Buffy. It was exhausting. It took me from essentially 18 on the pilot to being 24 and married when we finished. That show was my life. I was doing movies on the hiatuses and on weekends, but I needed to explore and live that gypsy lifestyle.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Weekend, Pilots, Hiatus

  "Sarah Michelle Gellar Interview RINGER; Compares Her Return to TV to BUFFY Experience". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 12, 2011.

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• Athens' biggest worry was the sheer recklessness of its own democratic government. A simple majority of the citizenry, urged on and incensed by clever demagogues, might capriciously send out military forces in unnecessary and exhausting adventures.

  Thucydides

  Clever, Military, Adventure

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• As the stag which the huntsman has hit flies through bush and brake, over stock and stone, thereby exhausting his strength but not expelling the deadly bullet from his body; so does experience show that they who have troubled consciences run from place to place, but carry with them wherever they go their dangerous wounds.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Running, Bullets, Doe

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• The idea of taking off my shoes and trying on all these clothes is so exhausting, I just leave.

  Lexa Doig

  Shoes, Ideas, Clothes

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• At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Roots, People, Worry

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• ...boredom was as exhausting as backbreaking labor.

  Jung Chang

  Boredom, Labor

  Jung Chang (2008). “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”, p.432, Simon and Schuster

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• But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Guilt, Twisted, Uncertain

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.182, Melville House

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• It would be one thing if I had been cursed so that everyone I loved would die," said Will. "I could keep myself from loving. To keep others from caring for me--it is an odd, exhausting procedure.

  Cassandra Clare

  Caring, Would Be, Odd

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• The righteous ones are always exhausting to have around.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Righteous

  Alexandra Adornetto (2011). “Hades”, p.124, Macmillan

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• Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.

  Jean Cocteau

  Reading, Stupidity, Proust

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• Kind of the exhausting thing about doing pure comedy, or something that's broader, is you're kind of a slave to the laugh. If it's not funny, then there's not much point in doing it. The kind of über-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, "Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny."

  John C. Reilly

  People, Laughing, Mind

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. June 16, 2010.

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• Even when I was young I wanted to be an actress. I knew the actors and the paparazzi. It was just kind of always in my landscape. It was never directed at me, but it was always somewhere so I could see how it operated and I could see it from afar and go 'Wow, that's not really glamorous, it's kind of exhausting not having any privacy.' So it was never something I pursued. The first time I saw the billboard for Pretty Little Liars I almost got into a car accident!

  Troian Bellisario

  Liars, Car, Actors

  "Exclusive Troian Bellisario Interview". Interview with Lauren Brown, www.seventeen.com. January 28, 2011.

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• It's funny, because it's like the fight when you watch it, it's probably going to be like five minutes, but it's taken us like a month to shoot it so I think what was really interesting was that instead of going through an entire fight sequence, you're doing one or two moves over and over and over, so I'd say it's less exhausting than actually training, because you're not really constantly going over the choreography, like the whole entire thing with everybody. You're just doing that one part that they need in the shot.

  Ellen Wong

  Taken, Moving, Fighting

  Source: collider.com

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• Even one who has been to God a million times with the same problem need not fear exhausting the grace of God.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Grace, Needs, Problem

  Twitter post from Jan 08, 2015

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• Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

  George Orwell

  Jobs, Book, Feelings

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.289, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Discipline, Serenity, Energy

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.180, A&C Black

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• Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.

  Wilson Mizner

  Party, Wind, Popularity

  Evanell K. Powell Brant, Addison Mizner, Wilson Mizner (1979*). “Debauched Proverbs and Other Miznerisms of Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner”

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• People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  People, Doubt, Robots

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