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• I'm fine," [her dad] said gently. "Back on the horse, Cath.' 'What's the horse?' she sighed, watching him pull on a South High hoodie. 'Jogging? Working too much?' 'Living,' he said, a little too loud. 'Life's the horse.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Horse, Dad, Jogging

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• It is easier with the right person. A good test of a relationship is how well you both deal with challenges. If one person is more invested, it shows. If you're with the wrong person, it feels like too much work. But if you're unhappy more than you're happy, it's not the right relationship for you.

  Susane Colasanti

  Challenges, Unhappy, Tests

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• You've got to have as many good times as bad, or it all becomes too painful and too much work.

  Sylvia Day

  Too Much, Good Times, Painful

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.129, Penguin

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• High school taught me a valuable lesson about glasses: Don't wear them. Contacts have always seemed like too much work, so instead I just squint, figuring that if something is more than ten feet away, I'll just deal with it when I get there.

  David Sedaris

  School, Glasses, Feet

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• All I know about 1970s New York City is that it's where I grew up, and you always have an umbilical connection to the time and place of your growing up. It was cheap, didn't have too many people in it, you could go to the movies or whatever on the spur of the moment, you could get by without working too much and especially without involving yourself in the corporate world.

  Luc Sante

  New York, Growing Up, Cities

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I don't necessarily want to direct because it's too much work and I don't have the attention span to stay with it that long. But I think getting everyone together on something that appeals to me and developing the material is something that I like to do.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Thinking, Long, Together

  "Made of Honour - Patrick Dempsey interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Everyday the opportunity exists to change your life. But most days, the idea of having to change the big things in life just seems like too much work. Should I lie on the couch and watch a movie, or shuld I confront my personal demons?

  Jill Davis

  Lying, Opportunity, Things In Life

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• The child is much more spiritually elevated than is usually supposed. He often suffers, not from too much work, but from work that is unworthy of him.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Teaching, Suffering

  Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

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• I'm an optimist and my heroines seem to be that way, too. It's too much work to be cynical and distrusting. That doesn't mean I create perfect stories and perfect people, however. What this means is that my stories are resolved in a manner that leaves the reader with a feeling of hope and happy expectation . . . and wanting to reach for another one of my books.

  Debbie Macomber

  Book, Mean, People

  Source: bookpage.com

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• I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

  Lauryn Hill

  Character, People, Too Much

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• I had been asked to open a nightclub in Atlantic City. They offered me a ridiculous amount of money. They literally overpaid me. So I did one show a night. Then they asked me back by popular demand. So I went back. Then I said, "To hell with this." I was only doing it for the money, and I was doing easy routines. It's just too much work to get up every day and practice.

  Gene Kelly

  Night, Practice, Cities

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Unfortunately, my love life is nil. I'm working too much - but I would like to settle down at some point.

  Richard Armitage

  Love Life, Too Much, Life Is

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• A novel which has been too much worked over often goes flat, and no amount of laborious revision can take the place of careful planning beforehand.

  Sheila Kaye-Smith

  Revision, Too Much, Planning

  Sheila Kaye-Smith (1937). “Three Ways Home”

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• In the creative process you come to loggerheads and you just have to keep the process moving forward, even if that requires jumping on a plane and flying to London. It's a good thing it's fun, otherwise it would be too much work.

  Tom Hanks

  Fun, Moving, Jumping

  "Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks Talk SAVING MR. BANKS, Bringing the Essence of Their Characters to the Screen, and How P.L. Travers Would Have Reacted". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 9, 2013.

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• I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though.

  Nate Silver

  Baseball, Football, Play

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• Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could no longer slouch into the study in PJs and slippers. Someone would (avert!) straighten my desk. Someone would reorganize my yarn stash...in fact, they'd assign someone else to knit my socks, thus depriving me of an excuse to rest my brain while pretending to accomplish something useful.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Yarn, Clothes, Pjs

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• If you say, 'I'm going to cut this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it,' well, then you're going to alienate everybody else. When I cut my record, I'm just going to cut the things that I like, and whoever likes it, likes it. That's too much work to try to figure out the demographic. That's too much like a business.

  Jason Aldean

  Song, Teenager, Cutting

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• After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex. Of course, for some people it isn't work because they need the exercise and they've got the energy for the sex and the sex gives them even more energy. Some people get energy from sex and some people lose energy from sex. I have found that it's too much work. But if you have the time for it, and if you need that exercise-then you should do it.

  Andy Warhol

  Sex, Exercise, People

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.110, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more.

  Eric Allman

  Two Sides, Too Much, Company

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• A few years ago, everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone's working too much. Now everybody's got more leisure time they're complaining they're unemployed. People don't seem to make up their minds what they want.

  Prince Philip

  Years, People, Mind

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• I found myself losing interest in almost everything, I didn't want to do any of the things I had previously wanted to do and I didn't know why. Everything there was to do seemed like too much work. The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment.

  Andrew Solomon

  Opposites, Vitality, Want

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• I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my willpower? The idea of a life gets in the way of my life...I dream too much, work too little.

  Sylvia Plath

  Dream, Fall, Self

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• I dream too much, work too little.

  Sylvia Plath

  Dream, Littles, Too Much

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.542, Faber & Faber

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• Sway says you’ve been taking really good care of him for me. (Claria) Well, his mom did a great job housebreaking him, so he doesn’t require too much work. Not to mention Vik doesn’t mind walking him once a day. It’s all good. (Devyn) You’re such a smartass. (Claria)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mom, Jobs, Mind

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Ice”, p.163, Macmillan

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• People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.

  Dorothy Day

  People, Effort, Deeds

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