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Quotes About Frustration

Having you close like this makes me forget the reasons why this won't work. We will never work.
~ Abbi Glines
I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren't going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.
~ Adam Rapp
I find that more and more I'm trying to entertain myself when I'm working, because I know the work's going to go to a horrible place.
~ Adam Rapp
Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.
~ Ai Weiwei
Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work.
~ Asia Argento
I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can't stop it.
~ Bette Midler
I waited tables in New York, and when you're in that line of work, you often have a horrible boss.
~ Charlie Day
I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.
~ Charlie Kaufman
I'm always excited to make the next album because I definitely get sick of my work the second it gets out there.
~ Chelsea Wolfe
It is easy to sympathize with the MIS staffs around the world, I mean who hasn't lost work due to Windows or a Microsoft application crashing?
~ Unknown
There's been a lot of times that I thought I'd never work again; I was really bummed out.
~ Chris Messina
The computer seems easy because Apple makes the products so easy to use at home. It's the simple things, like getting the TV set up or getting the speakers to work. That drives me crazy.
~ Chris O'Donnell
Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.
~ Chuck Close
I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs.
~ Colin Firth
the middle manager is doomed to remain just that. Once an office rat, always an office rat.
~ Corinne Maier
I can look at my early work and see what a pained struggle it was to draw what I was drawing. I was trying so hard to get this specific look that was in my head, and always falling short.
~ Daniel Clowes
They let you dream just to watch them shatter, you're just a step on the boss man's ladder.
~ Dolly Parton
Sometimes I think there are devils at work in the kitchen - recipes that are always perfect sometimes come out less than perfect and I can't figure out why.
~ Dorie Greenspan
We are stuck with technology when all we really want is just stuff that works. How do you recognize something that is still technology? A good clue is if it comes with a manual.
~ Douglas Adams
Every time I call my baby and ask to get a date, my boss says, no dice son, you gotta work late.
~ Eddie Cochran
I didn't like not having work and not having people return my calls.
~ Eleanor Mondale
There is a phrase in French, which means 'to miss.' To pass by. To not be able to stop. You love someone and someone loves you, but it just can't work for different reasons.
~ Emmanuelle Beart
I've dealt with Hollywood about having my work made into a film or cartoon but nothing came of it. That's not to say I wouldn't like to see something happen.
~ Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
Every complex problem has a simple solution that doesn't work.
~ H. L. Mencken