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Quotes About Grueling

I have never been depressed or thrown a plate, which I attribute to the cathartic effects of writing books about people whose lives are more grueling than mine.
~ Emma Donoghue
I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.
~ Sanaa Lathan
'Rectify' has been beautiful and emotional but grueling. In a beautiful way, in the right way.
~ Abigail Spencer
More than anyone else, perhaps, the miner can stand as the type of the manual worker, not only because his work is so exaggeratedly awful, but also because it is so vitally necessary and yet so remote from our experience, so invisible, as it were, that we are capable of forgetting it as we forget the blood in our veins.
~ George Orwell
I really like to bike outdoors and love the weight-based workouts that I do. I am not the biggest fan of other cardio-based workouts. Off-season cardio sessions are pretty grueling.
~ Nathan Chen
'Battlestar' was 22 episodes - 9 to 10 months a year - and we were exhausted. You finish shooting, and the last thing you want to do is go back to work. You want those 3 months off because you're tired - it's a grueling shooting schedule.
~ Katee Sackhoff
He found the work deeply satisfying, despite the gruelling hours.
~ Atul Gawande
Live TV is physically grueling. I'm concentrating very hard to recall numbers, dates and events to bolster my argument and win a debate. Every eight to 10 minutes, a new sport or topic is thrown at me.
~ Skip Bayless
He imagined the scene at the gates of heaven to be not unlike that at the finish line of a long and grueling marathon: everyone high-fiving, hugging, collapsing, elated that it's over, yes, it's finally over, pouring cups of water over one another's heads and saying, Holy shit, dude, that was fucking brutal. I am never doing that again.
~ Shalom Auslander
Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.
~ Vernon L. Smith
I spent a good part of the nineties roaming the Earth writing about conflict. It was very grueling. I was beginning to find this way of life was, wow, addictive and deeply meaningful.
~ Janine di Giovanni
Sometimes filming can be grueling when you're shooting the same scene for a week, or you're sitting around for 7 hours a day. They sound like very first-world champagne problems. I don't mean to sound like life is so hard, but filming sometimes is tougher than other times.
~ Jai Courtney
I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
~ Taylor Swift
Touring is very grueling. It's very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night after night. It's a tough job.
~ Janet Jackson
I think touring is hard.
~ Renee Fleming
'Easy' is not a word I would ever use to describe touring.
~ Rivers Cuomo
When you give your life over to your touring schedule, it's so grueling, you have to have moments where you have your own comfort places.
~ Grace Potter
Touring is very tough.
~ John Corabi
I've done a lot of different tours. For me, I try to go on tours that I think are gonna be fun. It's, like, grueling, and it's hard, and there's got to be an element to it that's exciting.
~ Kelis
Hungary we know it's a difficult track, it's one of the most physical tracks.
~ Robert Kubica
We all have ordeals we must face," Menshiki said. "It's through them that we find a new direction in our lives. The more grueling the ordeal, the more it can help us down the road.
~ Haruki Murakami
The hardest thing about the WWE is the travel.
~ The Great Khali
I took up boxing to get in shape for filming because it's grueling - all the running, the heat, the yelling, the crying that we do.
~ Steven Yeun
If they [program managers] had to go through this grueling experience of trying to ship this thing," Cutler said, "I think they'd have a little different outlook on how much work we can do, how much we can take on. As it stands they have this endless list of shit. The list is always twice as long as what we can do." In
~ G. Pascal Zachary