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• Like, with one arm I know I can surf, but competitive surfing can be really frustrating, and sometimes you don't do as well as you want to. It can be discouraging at times. But whenever I do get frustrated, I just focus on God.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Focus, Surfing, Frustrated

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• The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer.

  Joe Elliott

  Beer, Play, Musician

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• When contemplating General Eisenhower winning the Presidential election, Truman said, Hell sit here, and hell say, Do this! Do that! And nothing will happen. Poor Ikeit wont be a bit like the Army. Hell find it very frustrating.

  Harry S. Truman

  Army, Winning, Presidential

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• Life is wonder, endless, ceaseless wonder. If your energy level is low, then everything is gray, two-dimensional, boring, frustrating, and unhappy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Two

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• It's more frustrating. My expectation probably wasn't that I'd play [during the playoffs], but I was just trying to make sure that if there was any chance that it was possible to come back that I was ready and that I'd done everything I could to be ready. It's frustrating, disappointing. But can't really control any of that.

  Sidney Crosby

  Sports, Play, Expectations

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• The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Political, Trying, Policy

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• I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor.

  Rebecca Hall

  Thinking, Acting, Actors

  "Rebecca Hall Is Transcontinental". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 15, 2012.

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• It's frustrating - not that I expect to be the same person I was 10 years ago, but I do expect to do certain things. In all honesty, my body for the most part feels really good. But at this point of my career, I have to rely on different parts of my game, knowing how to take some short cuts when you can.

  Sheryl Swoopes

  Basketball, Honesty, Cutting

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• The joy in motherhood comes in moments. There will be hard times and frustrating times, but amid the challenges there are shining moments of joy and satisfaction.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Mother, Baby, Hard Times

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• There's something very beautiful and compelling about someone who has ambition and someone who knows what they want, but it can get a little frustrating at times, so I understand that. I have sympathy for that.

  Michael Ealy

  Sympathy, Beautiful, Ambition

  "Michael Ealy Breaks Down ‘Think Like A Man,’ Relationships And His Return To Broadway". Interview with Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2012.

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• It is frustrating when in an interview people say: 'Give us your make-up tips' and 'How do you stay skinny?' I think: 'Do you ask a guy that?

  Emily Browning

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.

  Tom Conti

  People, Film And Television, Audience

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think the toughest thing about being an actor in a film is to be with a director who doesn't know what they want. And that can be really, really frustrating.

  Ricky Jay

  Thinking, Actors, Want

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 19, 2009.

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• It's frustrating at times when you think you've earned a chance to play on the field and you're over there sitting on the bench. That's not the kind of player I am. I'm the kind of player who wants to be out there on the field and needs to contribute every minute of every game.

  Freddy Adu

  Player, Thinking, Games

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• You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God's dealings with us that our ideas do not work out speedily and efficiently as we would like them to. The reason for this is not only the loving wisdom of God, but also the fact that our acts have to fit into a great complex pattern that we cannot possibly understand. I have learned over the years that Providence is always a whole lot wiser than any of us, and that there are always not only good reasons, but the very best reasons for the delays and blocks that often seem to us so frustrating and absurd.

  Thomas Merton

  Block, Years, Ideas

  Thomas Merton (2011). “The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters”, p.862, Macmillan

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• Looking and not finding is certainly one of the most frustrating ways to spend time.

  Andy Rooney

  Loss, Way, Spend Time

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• Doing interviews can sometimes mess up my head. It makes me feel dirty. It's frustrating how the press recycles a quote to death.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Dirty, Interviews, Sometimes

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• Directing is a nice job. It's the best job for me. If i had to pay money to do it, I would do itIt's problematical. It's disapointing often. It's very challenging. It's frustrating as hell. It's extremely demanding and totally satisfying work. And if I wasn't doing this, I would have to do legitimate work for a living. There are guys out there really working for a living, cleaning streets or coal mining, teaching. Directing is playing. Acting.

  William Friedkin

  Jobs, Nice, Teaching

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• As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.

  David Frum

  Want, Thrilling

  "How I created the axis of evil" by Julian Borger, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2003.

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• So here we have found a means of a) alienating even the most flexible and patient Palestinians; while b) frustrating the efforts of the more principled and compromising Israelis; while c) empowering and financing some of the creepiest forces in American and Israeli society; and d) heaping ordure on our own secular founding documents. When will the Justice Department and the Congress and the Supreme Court become aware of this huge and rank offense, which is designed to bring us ever nearer to holy war?

  Christopher Hitchens

  War, Mean, Justice

  "Your Tax Dollars at Work - in West Bank Settlements" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. July 12, 2010.

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• Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just as well be viewed as almost unbearably exciting. We live on a planet that has a more or less infinite capacity to surprise. What reasoning person could possibly want it any other way?

  Bill Bryson

  May, Want, Way

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• ...he was part of a family whether he wanted to be or not, the family of humanity, more often than not a frustrating and contentious clan, flawed and often deeply confused, but also periodically noble and admirable, with a common destiny that every member shared.

  Dean Koontz

  Confused, Destiny, Humanity

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Winter Moon: A Novel”, p.169, Bantam

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• However, while being able to think about two things at the same time is a terribly convenient, the training it takes to get there is frustrating at best, and at other times rather disturbing. I remember one time I looked for the stone for almost an hour before I consented to ask the other half of me where I'd hidden it, only to find I hadn't hidden the stone at all. I had merely been waiting to see how long I would look before giving up. Have you ever been annoyed and amused with yourself at the same time? It's an interesting feeling, to say the very least.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Giving Up, Thinking, Two

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• It is very frustrating not to be understood in this world. If you say one thing and keep being told that you mean something else, it can make you want to scream. But somewhere in the world there is a place for all of us, whether you are an electric form of decoration, peppermint-scented sweet, a source of timber, or a potato pancake.

  Daniel Handler

  Sweet, Mean, World

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• If you are making a script based on a book it can be frustrating going back to the source novel, because you're turning the story into a totally different thing; the narrative of film is different from that of a book.

  Clive Owen

  Book, Different, Stories

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