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Conducting is intensely social. You work with a hundred people every day. You collaborate, you try to focus their thoughts, you try to give them a concept, you try to inspire them, and it's actually exhausting.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

People, Giving, Focus

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It's physically and psychologically exhausting to make a film.

Guillaume Canet

Film

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Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.

Anita Shreve

Grief

Anita Shreve (1998). “The Pilot's Wife”, Little, Brown

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In short? It is exhausting being me. Pretending to be normal is draining and requires amazing amounts of energy and Xanax.

Jenny Lawson

Xanax, Normal, Energy

Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.117, Pan Macmillan

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It looked exhausting and pointless, two things that should be avoided at all costs

Daniel Handler

Two, Cost, Should

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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

Bertrand Russell

Life, Happiness, Procrastination

Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.40, Lulu Press, Inc

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She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own.

Veronica Roth

Real, Sacrifice, People

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The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.

Agnes de Mille

Dance, Writing, Winning

Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.234, New York Review of Books

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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

George Orwell

Struggle, Book, Writing

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.316, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Each period had required me to be a slightly different person, and that was exhausting. I wondered if school had always felt this way and whether it was like this for everone.

Gabrielle Zevin

School, Different, Way

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Men of Oregon, I invite you to become students of your events. Running, one might say, is basically an absurd past-time upon which to be exhausting ourselves. But if you can find meaning, in the kind of running you have to do to stay on this team, chances are you will be able to find meaning in another absurd past-time: life.

Bill Bowerman

Running, Team, Men

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Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.

Carrie Fisher

Ambition, People, Drug

"What I've Learned: Carrie Fisher" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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Physically it's exhausting to cook every night. Existentially speaking, I have so much more energy having that time to myself in this project, this gift to myself at the end of the day. Even if it didn't go smoothly, it was still a gift.

Julie Powell

Night, The End Of The Day, Energy

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Self-esteem can be so exhausting. I want to cut my hair, change my clothes, erase the pimple from the near-tip of my nose, and strengthen my upper-arm definition, all in the next hour.

David Levithan

Self Esteem, Cutting, Clothes

David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.28, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are misanthropes, just sitting thinking, ‘Oh, people are such a bunch of assholes,’ but it’s really not like that. We just have a smaller tolerance for what it takes to be with others. It means having to perform. I get so tired of communicating.

Anneli Rufus

Tired, Mean, Thinking

"The joys of solitude" by Phil Daoust, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2010.

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With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered. Freedom is exhausting.

Lauren Oliver

Expectations, Language, Cures

Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.21, Harper Collins

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Wold domination is exhausting and cliche. People ought to just focus on being individual responsible citizens of the earth instead of assholes.

Rachel Cohn

People, Focus, Citizens

Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.75, Egmont UK

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communication is such a two-edged sword for guys. On the one hand, they almost always mean what they say. Refreshing, I know. On the other hand, getting them to actually say it can be like coaxing a corpse to tap-dance. Not that it can't be done. But it's so freaking exhausting. Not to mention the cost in heavyweight fishing line and Savion Glover videos.

Jennifer Rardin

Communication, Mean, Hands

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At first, being with Sebastian was like being in the middle of the best dream I'd ever had - but now it mostly feels exhausting. I'm up one minute and down the next; questioning what I say and do. Even questioning my sanity.

Candace Bushnell

Dream, Next, Firsts

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To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.

Malcolm Gladwell

Success, Caring, Emotional

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Why do you lie" I ask her. "To block the truth." Fair enough. Naomi goes on. "Where did we get it in our heads that we need truth all the time? Sometimes lies are nice, you know? You don't have to know the truth all the time. It's too exhausting.

Rachel Cohn

Block, Nice, Lying

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It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.

Tasha Alexander

Memorable, Unrequited Love, People

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... relationships required such vigilance, such attention. You had to hold them together by force of will, and other people took up so much space, demanded so much time. It was exhausting.

Catherynne M. Valente

Space, People, Together

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Being wrong about important things is exhausting.

John Irving

Important, Important Things, Being Wrong

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Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting. Alone in a dreary room, alone in the dock before the judges, and alone to make up your mind, before yourself and before the judgement of others. At the end of every freedom there is a sentence, which is why freedom is too heavy to bear.

Albert Camus

Running, Distance, Long

Albert Camus (2006). “The fall”, Penguin Modern Classics

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