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• I felt that there could be some anger. There could be some frustration that he has the tendency to take over the room, but I wanted all of those things to show in the grays of her hair and the fact that her hips are much wider than they probably were when she met him. I wanted it to show in the fact that her hair is not done up all the time. I wanted it to be a part of that every day that wasn't in your face. Because then for me, that's overacting. To me, that's not "being." I wanted Rose [in "Fences"] to be many things.

  Viola Davis

  Hair, Rose, Done

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• Although the great frustration about this [role] is the fact that there's one thing Maigret never does, and that's drive. He's always driven, or he takes the train, or he gets the bus. I was saying 'Well, why don't we ring the changes for the 21st Century, and stick him in the car?'. [Executive Producer and son of the author, John Simenon] said, 'Well, you can if you want, but there'll be lots of people who won't like it'. So he's a non-driver ... But no, Top Gear was never a consideration for me; and neither was I asked

  Rowan Atkinson

  Son, Car, People

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

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• Anger is a choice, as well as a habit. It is a learned reaction to frustration, in which you behave in ways that you would rather not. In fact, severe anger is a form of insanity. You are insane whenever you are not in control of your behavior. Therefore, when you are angry and out of control, you are temporarily insane.

  Wayne Dyer

  Anger, Choices, Insanity

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• Everyone wants to be tested and challenged. Everyone would like a good, honest fight to exhaust their frustrations.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fighting, Want, Honest

  Source: www.bookslut.com

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• You mature as far as your understanding of what it's going to take, and you increase your stamina. You don't let frustration overtake you when you're looking for change.

  Eddie Vedder

  Understanding, Mature, Increase

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's nothing worse than the frustration of having somebody who you feel doesn't get what you're doing, trying to turn it into something else. It's a very, very annoying and sort of frustrating thing and I just never wanted to go through it. I was very fortunate as I came up through the film business that I was able to insulate myself from that.

  George Lucas

  Trying, Able, Film

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• Yes, pain, disappointment, frustration, and anguish can be temporary scenes played out on the stage of life. Behind them can be a background of peace and the positive assurance that a loving Father will keep His promises.

  Richard G. Scott

  Peace, Pain, Disappointment

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• Before we can even begin to grapple with the frustrations and tragedies of life in this world, we must do away with our faithless morality of payback and reward.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Tragedy, Payback, World

  Tullian Tchividjian (2012). “Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free”, p.68, David C Cook

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• Writing for publication is an art, a craft, and a business, so you need to develop skill sets in multiple areas. You need to learn how to be a marketer just as much as you need to get past your influences and develop your unique prose voice. And you can't do it alone. You need a strong emotional support system to help cope with the frustrations and setbacks.

  Brian Hodge

  Art, Strong, Writing

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• Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings.

  Samuel Beckett

  Sad, Wings, Imagination

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still”, p.41, Faber & Faber

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• In luck or out the toil has left its mark:
  That old perplexity an empty purse,
  Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.

  William Butler Yeats

  Work, Night, Vanity

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• Today, for good or ill, people are thinking about many social problems from the standpoint of their own kitchen tables. I think the way to begin a conversation with people about what's going on is to address their daily experiences, and what their fears and frustrations, as well as their exhilarations, are.

  Robert Reich

  Thinking, People, Kitchen

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• What I never wanted in art - and why I probably didn't belong in art - was that I never wanted viewers. I think the basic condition of art is the viewer: The viewer is here, the art is there. So the viewer is in a position of desire and frustration. There were those Do Not Touch signs in a museum that are saying that the art is more expensive than the people. But I wanted users and a habitat. I don't know if I would have used those words then, but I wanted inhabitants, participants. I wanted an interaction.

  Vito Acconci

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The big frustration for me is that people are growing so cynical about politics that you see them basically shrug and say, "Oh, yeah. Who cares that Harper is shutting down debate? Who cares that he's building prisons, and everything? All the politicians are the same so why should we be outraged about one rather than the other?" And my point is Canadians need to wake up. This is not the Canada they'd recognize if they looked closely.

  Justin Trudeau

  People, Cynical, Wake Up

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• A soldier in Iraq said that he wanted to "punch Donald Rumsfeld in the gut, then in the face" or something like that. He wanted me to use his name, but I knew he'd get in trouble, so I didn't. However, I felt it was a great quote because it summed up the frustration of those guys at that moment.

  Michael Hastings

  Guy, Soldier, Trouble

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's much more fun to share and laugh at the bad times and the frustrations. I find you get a much deeper connection with the audience that way.

  Aziz Ansari

  Fun, Laughing, Connections

  "Aziz Ansari gets candid about love: “elusive and sadly ephemeral”". Interview with TashaR, www.avclub.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I know what it feels like to be in that middle and lower-middle class, and feel like the culture is passing you by; it translates into a great sense of personal frustration that can then morph into political frustration.

  George Saunders

  Class, Political, Culture

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Coming up as an MC, I took the frustrations of the underground and brought it with me into the mainstream. I know there was a certain complex I had in the beginning that was just a little paranoid or a little...sensitive.

  Eminem

  Littles, Sensitive, Mainstream

  Source: www.rapbasement.com

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• I've always been interested in miracles, or the miraculous of the unexplained. I don't scoff at what makes people believe or want to believe. I think I understand the tremendous attraction of the mysteries of the church to the same degree that I understand and appreciate the frustration people feel, especially believers, with the human rule-making arm of the church, with the not-miraculous part of the church - any church.

  John Irving

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We forget that we create the situations, then we give our power away by blaming the other person for our frustration. No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for “we” are the only thinkers in our mind. We create our experiences, our reality, and everyone in it. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our mind, we will find it in our lives.

  Louise Hay

  Reality, Giving, Mind

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• The kind of hope I'm talking about is the belief that something good will come. That everything you're going through and everything you've gone through will be worth the struggles and frustrations. The kind of hope I'm talking about is a deep belief that the world can be changed, that the impossible is possible.

  Ronda Rousey

  Struggle, Talking, Gone

  Ronda Rousey (2015). “My Fight / Your Fight”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.

  Jill Abramson

  Past, Careers, Events

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• I'm concerned with China growing at double or triple the rate of the West, that there will be tensions. One needs to do something to start addressing misunderstandings and frustration.

  Stephen A. Schwarzman

  Needs, Growing, West

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• It just goes to show that what one person considers a "bad attitude" might actually just be total frustration over being pushed beyond the brink of one's mental and physical endurance.

  Meg Cabot

  Attitude, Endurance, Might

  Meg Cabot (2008). “The Princess Diaries: Seventh Heaven”, p.202, Pan Macmillan

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• The frustration of our [The Daily] show is- very much outside any parameters of the media or the government. We don't have access to these people, we don't have access. We don't go to dinners we don't have cocktail parties. We don't you know, you've seen what happens when one of us ends up at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, it doesn't end well.

  Jon Stewart

  Party, Government, Media

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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