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• The poems ... are moments when I had the intensity to see, and the energy to build, some careful analog that completed the seeing. ... All I have been left is the exhausting habit of trying to tack up the slack in my life with words.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Trying, Energy, Moments

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• You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.

  Ed Harris

  Sleep, Cities, Three

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• Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

  George Orwell

  Struggle, Book, Writing

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

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• What I do like is hiking. And that's what filmmaking is. It's a hike. It's challenging and exhausting, and you don't know what the terrain is going to be or necessarily even which direction you're going in... but it sure is beautiful.

  Joss Whedon

  Beautiful, Hiking, Challenges

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• The futile and exhausting existence of a purgatory-like law enforcement system.

  Killer Mike

  Law, Enforcement, Existence

  "Run the Jewels’ New Video Beautifully Exposes the ‘Futility’ of Police Brutality" by Dee Lockett, www.vulture.com. March 26, 2015.

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• It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Tyranny, Dictatorship

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• Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost.

  Sherwin B. Nuland

  Battle, Lost, Has Beens

  Sherwin B. Nuland (1994). “How We Die”, Vintage

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• It might take us a lifetime to find out what it is we need to say. Most of us fall into where our feelings are headed while we're quite young. But the beauty of all this uncertainty would be that in the process of exhausting all the possibilities, we might actually stumble unconsciously into the recognition of something that's useful to us, that speaks to a deep need within ourselves. At the same time, I like to think that in order for any of us to really do anything new, we can't know exactly what it is we are doing.

  Emmet Gowin

  Photography, Fall, Thinking

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• I have a friend - I send her one text and I get 20 texts back. Guys don't want a million texts. It's exhausting.

  Anderson Cooper

  Guy, Want, Millions

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• Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.

  William Beveridge

  Unemployment, Temperature, Causes

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• Writing is very cathartic for me. As a teacher, I hear many students say that writing can be painful and exhausting. It can be, but ultimately I believe that if you push through, the process is healing and exhilarating.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Teacher, Believe, Healing

  "Francesca Lia Block’s Elements Of Style". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2012.

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• Between takes I find it difficult to switch off and then try and re-emerge myself in the part, so I try to stay in that frame of mine all day. It can be exhausting and you lose a sense of self, but it is the method that works best for me.

  Hayden Christensen

  Self, Trying, Method

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• While marriage is many things, it is anything but sentimental. Marriage is glorious but hard. It's a burning joy and strength, and yet it is also blood, sweat, and tears; humbling defeats and exhausting victories.

  Timothy Keller

  Blood, Sweat, Joy

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.14, Penguin

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• Resolutions are exhausting. Embrace ease.

  Kris Carr

  Ease, Resolution, Embrace

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• Because this is how it feels to live my life: scattered, fragmented, and exhausting.

  Brigid Schulte

  Living My Life, Feels, Fragmented

  Brigid Schulte (2014). “Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One Has The Time”, p.8, A&C Black

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• 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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• Murder is terribly exhausting.

  Albert Camus

  Murder

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• I am very active on the Internet. In 2007, I made one film every day and posted it on my website. That was a 365-day project, really exhausting, but I still put a lot of stuff on - from life, friends, my own life.

  Jonas Mekas

  Stuff, Film, Internet

  "Jonas Mekas captures one moment at a time". Interview with Molly Glentzer, www.chron.com. November 15, 2013.

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• It would be nice to make a movie that other people want to make, because every one of these movies, I basically have to find the only company in the world that's willing to make it, and it's always a big challenge. I end up spending a tremendous amount of energy and time trying to get money to make these movies and it's exhausting.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Nice, People, Challenges

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• Each time you put the muscle back on, your body has that muscle memory and wants to hang on to it, so you just have be well underfed and over-trained to get it off and it's exhausting.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Memories, Body, Want

  "Chris Hemsworth on 'In the Heart of the Sea', Losing Weight, Ron Howard, and More". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. November 20, 2015.

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• But I know what it means to crave what you're not. To want to sew up that rift because it's exhausting to hold it open. Sometimes you just need to be someone else, someone who doesn't care about anything at all. I know I do. I want emptiness but I can't have it.

  Vanessa Veselka

  Mean, Needs, Rift

  Vanessa Veselka (2011). “Zazen”, p.190, Red Lemonade

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• It is exhausting to be running around pretending to be scared at night - It sounds so wussy actory.

  Zach Gilford

  Running, Night, Sound

  Source: collider.com

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• The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Order, Effort

  Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

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• The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, Wearing A Mask, Social

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.21, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• So if you can make it through, you know you've got something good, you can handle anything. We've been blessed to grow but at the same time, the hard part is having to wear every single hat. It's exhausting, but it's entirely worth it because on the flip side, the best part about being a touring musician is being a touring musician.

  Lizzo

  Blessed, Flip, Sides

  "Lizzo’s Big Moment". Interview with Lea Weatherby, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 15, 2014.

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