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When you give of yourself, it's draining. --
Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
Being on the move all the time is draining, but the rewards make up for it. -- David Soul
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Both songs are really, really intense when it comes to performing them, and very draining at the same time. -- Deborah Cox
There is no worse situation to be in than Oscar night. Not knowing whether you've won is completely draining. -- Nick Park
Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music. -- Alvin Ailey
My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining. -- Laura Mvula
It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama. -- Sean Penn
Yeah, touring can get rough some times and draining, but I always have to pinch myself and realize that I'm doing what I love. -- Jonny Lang
Put your energy into building what is creative, valuable and empowering. And you won't have to constantly fight against what is destructive and draining. -- Ralph Marston
For me, working is the ultimate vacation, for lack of a better word. Its being in-between jobs were it becomes emotional, and brutal, and draining. -- Ashley Bell
Most people who know me know I'm not switched on all the time. I don't like to be like that in real life, because it's draining. -- Rebel Wilson
It's important to salt the tomatoes before draining them because that helps pull out the water. Fresh herbs, some garlic and pepper will also enhance the flavor. -- Geoffrey Zakarian
I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining. -- Michael Hutchence
It was so draining. Going to parties to rub elbows with so-and-so and act like it's no big deal, when really all I was doing was hoping I'd have the success they had. -- Katy Perry
One of the things you see in New York is that offices keep their lights on at night. They're proud of their building. Great. But they must find another way to be proud without draining energy. -- Richard Rogers
I was surprised at the level of commitment that Andrew Lincoln has. The extreme situations that he's asked to perform - that's got to be seriously draining, and he keeps going and going. He's almost not human. -- Seth Gilliam
There are many tough sides to being a jockey. Injury is something we all dread, but spending lengthy periods in the bath or the sauna just to shed a few pounds can be an exhausting and draining experience. -- Tony McCoy
Having been an oncologist and having cared for scores, if not hundreds, of dying patients, when you don't have a treatment that can shrink the tumor and the patient will die, it's a very difficult conversation. It's emotionally draining. -- Ezekiel Emanuel
It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are. -- Christina Aguilera
It just gets draining on a person being in the papers every day. So I was like, I'm gonna come back here. I want to talk to all the people, the fans. I want to let them know how much I appreciate all their support. -- Sean Combs
If your environment keeps draining your energy, it's like having a leaky bank account, where any money you're putting into the bank, such as by seeing an energy healer, keeps slipping out. You have to change your environment, including any harmful beliefs, before the energy can stay high. -- Bruce Lipton
It's tough being a dictator, but I've always thought it must be tougher being a hanger-on to a dictator. The late nights spent listening to his crazed ranting, the weary rictus grin from smiling at bad jokes, the draining knowledge that one misjudged comment could land you on the chopping block. -- John Niven
When I do a 30-minute meal, for instance, on Food Network, that's my food you see at the end of the show and it's not perfect. And if sometimes things break or drop or the pasta hits the wall when I'm draining it, they never stop tape. They just kind of let me go with it. -- Rachael Ray
Playing a show is a monumental hassle. You've got to schlep all your heavy equipment into the van, then you've got to drive for five hours, then you have to schlep all the heavy equipment out of the van, onto the stage, set it up, do the sound check, hang around for three hours, then play the show, which is incredibly draining. -- Juliana Hatfield
The signs of psychic draining - we call aging. -- Frederick Lenz
The idea of it (draining Lake Powell) is absolutely ridiculous. -- Jane D. Hull
I'd like to settle down eventually, but acting is emotionally draining. -- Scott Patterson
Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short. -- Peter Charles Newman
The way people age is not the way people age ... everyone is draining everyone! -- Frederick Lenz
That's what existence means: draining one's own self dry without the sense of thirst. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Politics is quite draining. There are so many heated discussions and press conferences to cover during a convention. -- Megan Alexander
Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you. -- Stephen King
When I play a villain, I usually get home and sleep straight through the night. It's physically and emotionally draining. -- Ana Layevska
Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible. -- Timothy Keller
There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. -- Adam Smith
In short? It is exhausting being me. Pretending to be normal is draining and requires amazing amounts of energy and Xanax. -- Jenny Lawson
You don't know what cold is until you've experienced the cold you feel when the blood is draining out of your body. -- Ry? Murakami
The shadows of the room pool in the lines of our faces, draining our eyes of hue. "There's nothing left worth saying. -- Isaac Marion
When you see someone draining you, your being naturally cuts it off. Yet many times you can be manipulated not to see. -- Frederick Lenz
Someone told me once that I'm worse than a dog, I'm the scum of the earth, so for me it was draining. -- Roger Ross Williams
My film (Black Venus) had been very emotionally draining and difficult because I had identified so much with the lead character, Saartjie Baartman. -- Abdellatif Kechiche
The Universal Soul, as it is called, has an interest in the stacking of hay, the foddering of cattle, and the draining of peat-meadows. -- Henry David Thoreau
Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness; not draining your energy on ridiculous things and people. -- Frederick Lenz
Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness; not draining your energy on ridiculous things and people. -- Frederick Lenz
Nothing can prepare you for living or working with a sociopathic serial bully. It is the most devastating, draining, misunderstood, and ultimately futile experience imaginable. -- Tim Field
If you suspect someone is draining you, generally you should not confront them, but be nice, relax them, and then see what they are doing. -- Frederick Lenz
Practice mediation and concentration exercises, and begin to think more about regaining your sensitivity by avoiding draining situations. Not because of fear but because of intelligence. -- Frederick Lenz
There are places that are very draining. There are places where there is another dimensional crossover but to a dimension that is not powerful at all. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Hollywood can be a draining industry. For all the glitz and glory and wonderful parts of our business, it takes it's toll on your inner self. -- Amber Heard
I forgive him and like water draining from the sand after a wave, the power he held over me disappears. A slow smile rises on my face. -- Ryan Winfield
Hate is a draining bottomless pit from whence nothing good or of any value can come. Try to eat a balanced diet. Guys only want one thing. -- Christopher Meloni
I eat pretty clean, but the training is tiring. When you're training two times a day it can be really draining, so I'd rather stick with the diet. -- Daniel Cudmore
I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining -- Michael Hutchence
If someone confronts you about draining them it could be a "double reverse." They are draining you and accuse you instead of draining them, just to throw you off. -- Frederick Lenz
Action films are emotionally and physically draining, and you're dirty and sweaty. In a romantic comedy, you have to have your fingernails perfect, you're in air-conditioned rooms the whole time. -- Morris Chestnut
You have been imprinted by people in this world who take power from others. Most people drain each other. Or, what is worse, they are draining you right now, psychically! -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear. -- Edith Wharton
Striving for successful goals will have a tendency at times to be discouraging, thankless, and mentally draining. You are entitled to these feelings, however you are not entitled to give up. -- DeWayne Owens
Donâ??t waste another minute dealing with a toxic, negative, energy-draining person. Some people are wired for negativity. They love being argumentative, combative and abusive. Run for your life as quickly as possible. -- Les Brown
I really have problems with horror movies. I don't watch them. It's a feeling I don't want to have in cinema. I'm too reactive. It's too draining to watch that kind of movie. -- Ludivine Sagnier
I come home more exhausted after a day of emotional work on set than I've ever had in any sporting event I've played or anything. It's draining. But it's also part of the fun. -- Mike Vogel
What I want is for both of us to feel safe. What you and I have together shouldn't be draining us like this. It should be the one rock-solid thing we both count on. -- Sylvia Day
The distinction between private and public undermines the unity of spiritual strength, draining the public of the transcendent energies while trivializing them because the merely private life provides no proper stage for their action. -- Allan Bloom
Your life may be draining away. Every day you may be getting older instead of younger, more frustrated instead of happier. Your job, your relationships may not be evolving - then your power is dwindling. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
You only need two waves in a heat, so I try and keep my surfs short and sweet and not too draining. Keep them intense and try and get the two best waves I can. -- Joel Parkinson

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