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• Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Jobs, Night, Play

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• No matter how tired you are, no matter how physically exhausting this work may be, it's beautiful to bring a smile into someone's life, to care for someone in need. What greater joy can there be?

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful, Tired, Joy

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• White people don't have that problem, they get to go through life never having to fit into a box, and it's really more so true for white men because even just being a woman, you sort of have to walk around other people's assumptions of you and it's so exhausting and there's a sense, especially among young people of wanting to just live your life, not having to wear the weight of that pressure - pressure that people of color feel, that gay people of color feel, that women of color feel.

  Justin Simien

  Gay, Men, White

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I'm thirty-six years old and I've been married once and he left and I don't want to feel this way anymore. Like I can't be vulnerable. Can't relax. It's exhausting, always being on the defensive, keeping my guard up. I feel like Cuba.

  Noah Hawley

  Years, Relax, Cuba

  Noah Hawley (2005). “Other People's Weddings”, p.150, Macmillan

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• Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Profession

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• I have absolutely no doubt that if you are a praying Christian, your faith in God is what is carrying you, through both the good times and the hard times. However, if you are not a praying person, you are carrying your faith - you are trying to make your faith work for you apart from your source of power - and trying to carry the infinite is very exhausting.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Christian, Hard Times, Doubt

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Sep 27, 2015

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• Make movies you love because it's miserable. Every movie I've worked on at one point or another is exhausting, and you feel like you're making a bad movie.

  Simon Kinberg

  Love Is, Miserable, Like You

  "Producer Roundtable: 6 Filmmakers on 'Compton' Threats, Tarantino Outbursts and the Truth Behind a 'Star Wars' 'Firing'". Interview with Stephen Galloway and Matthew Belloni, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 11, 2015.

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• I was dating a guy once who spoke rudely to a taxi driver. I got out of the cab and walked home. Treat people with respect. I've waited tables, and that's why I just exceedingly overtip. It's exhausting work.

  Kesha

  Home, People, Dating

  "Ke$ha: There's a Real Girl Underneath All That Glitter". Interview with Logan Hill, www.glamour.com. February 2, 2012.

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• Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.

  Ann Patchett

  People, Needs, Attention

  Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 16, 2016.

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• Every time we click the shutter, it's like a new day, a new chance to make a clean start, to be original. It's a very exciting and exhausting thing to do.

  Maggie Steber

  New Day, Chance, Clean

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• Those who are driven by poverty, those who're free from material worries hunger exhausting labor a joyless existence ask the same question, the question of meaning.

  Kathy Acker

  Worry, Poverty, Hunger

  Source: bombmagazine.org

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• I actually have no aspirations to ride a motorcycle ever again. Its exhausting. You get cold.

  Ally Walker

  Motorcycle, Cold, Aspiration

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• I'm a tough girl, I know what my job entails - it entails a lot more than standing in front of the camera. So I get it. I won't deny the physicality of it is exhausting, and sometimes my body just can't keep up. But it is ultimately about mind over matter.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Girl, Jobs, Mind

  Interview with Matt Mullen, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 26, 2016.

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• I told the caterer I'd work for nothing if he'd teach me about catering. I lasted one week full-time. It was exhausting.

  Diane Mott Davidson

  Week, Catering, Teach

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• I have photo shoots or commercials that I do, or things in India. It's usually a seven-day week for me. So physically it does get exhausting.

  Priyanka Chopra

  India, Doe, Seven Days

  Interview with Matt Mullen, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 26, 2016.

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• There are certain times you want to be here and there are certain times you want to just go. And when you go, it's usually so exhausting you have to check into a hospital when you come home!

  Julian Schnabel

  Home, Here And There, Want

  "New Again: Julian Schnabel". Interview with Carter Ratcliff, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 5, 2016.

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• Oh god, success is so exhausting.

  Laurie Simmons

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• When you spend your whole life traveling it does get really tedious and exhausting.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Doe, Get Real, Whole Life

  "The Walkmen". Interview With Mike Carriere, pitchfork.com. November 25, 2008.

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• Making a film, I've learned, can be an exhausting process, due to the need for backing, distribution, etc.

  Anne Rice

  Needs, Etc, Film

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.

  Mark Kozelek

  Depressing, Challenges, Stressful

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

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• I suppose the biggest strain was that Hoodwink is a high-octane character and he's up there like all the time. Once he's on his journey there's no let up for the man, so I actually found it a massively exhausting job to keep that level up.

  Andy Serkis

  Jobs, Character, Journey

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I guess I've done a lot of different kinds of performing at various times - opera singing, poetry reading, not least high school teaching - and I do enjoy it, at least sometimes. But I find it incredibly anxiety-producing and exhausting. Privacy is more congenial, and I go a little crazy if I can't spend a big chunk of every day, or almost every day, alone. Certainly I have to be alone to write.

  Garth Greenwell

  Crazy, Teaching, Reading

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Getting tired of sitting, staring at my computer screen, day after day, where everyone is two-dimensional, reduced to an avatar photo, status updates, or maybe some carefully curated vacation photos. There's something exhausting about that after a while. I found myself wanting to hear voices.

  Brad Listi

  Tired, Vacation, Two

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Trying to be really dark and alienating just felt exhausting to me, so I started going back to the music that I grew up with, whether it was African music or pop music. It took me away from being overly self-conscious about what I was doing.

  St. Lucia

  Dark, Self, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

  Lady Gaga

  Jobs, Attention, Center Of Attention

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