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Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.
Shane Black / Screenwriter
Jobs
Pain
Real
Real Pain
Scripts
Laborious
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Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Confucius / Philosopher
Leadership
Example
People
Philosophical
Affairs
Laborious
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I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
W. G. Sebald / Writer
Business Always Way
Draft
Business Way Always
Laborious
Translator
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Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job.
John Williams / Scientist
Consuming
Orchestra
Laborious
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I'm not saying I didn't have a great 2008. I just made it a chore. I made it look laborious.
Katie Hoff / Swimmer
Chore
Laborious
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Songs can click together really quickly, and other times, they're really laborious and heavy-lifting.
James Murphy /
Click
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Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
Horace Walpole / Politician
Art
Beautiful
Exchanging
Harmony
Prose
Way
Beautiful Way
Laborious
Plain
Spoiling
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That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.
Dana Carvey / Actor
Comedian
Corporate
Kind
Modern
Movie Making
Comedians
Laborious
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To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
Winston Churchill / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
May
Not Giving Up
Philosophy
Single
Years
Build
Act
Day
Destroy
Laborious
Slow
Single Day
Task
Thoughtless
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You can't be 'on' everyday, no one is a hit machine all the time. But if you're loving the music it will happen. It shouldn't be laborious.
Scott Storch /
Time Music Will
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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Samuel Johnson / Writer
Knowledge
Curiosity
Emulation
Leisure
Might
Trifles
Useful Knowledge
Advances
Useful
Diverted
Laborious
Minute
Soon
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'Alpha' is a very fast-moving book. It doesn't lend itself to laborious introspection and the navel-gazing that some stories can fall prey to.
Greg Rucka / Comic Book Writer
Introspection
Prey
Alpha
Laborious
Lend
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The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.
Edward Mckendree Bounds / Author
Delicate
Difficult
Preacher
Strongest
Thorough
Himself
Laborious
Sharpest
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The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.
John Lancaster Spalding / Author
Faith
Creeds
Doubt
Earnest
Patient
Thoughtful
Worthy
Indeed
Laborious
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My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.
Ezra Cornell / New York State Senator
Absence
Children
Dear
Dear God
Duty
Expanding
Mind
Devolved
Guiding
Laborious
Minds
Wholly
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Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do.
Albert Bandura / Psychologist
Learning
Effects
Rely
Actions
Exceedingly
Hazardous
Inform
Laborious
Mention
Solely
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I train three, four, five times a week, protein six times a day, resistance training for at least 45 minutes... it's so very boring. It's really painful. It's laborious.
Gwendoline Christie / Model
Protein
Resistance
Laborious
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I do seem to try to make things harder and harder for myself. In some perverse way, obstacles interest me and I'm drawn to projects that end up being incredibly laborious.
Taryn Simon / Artist
Obstacles
Myself Me Way
Drawn
Incredibly
Laborious
Perverse
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To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.
Sarah Bernhardt / Film Actress
Actors
Finished
Soul
Tasks
Barely
Good Actor
Laborious
Minute
Resume
Surprised
Task
Tempered
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The studio part, to me, can be pretty laborious. You're inside for hours on end and can be pretty frustrating to get the sound you hear in your head to come out of those speakers.
Mike Love / Musician
Ends
Frustrating
Hours
Sound
Speakers
Laborious
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A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.
Fanny Kemble / Writer
Fall
Numbers
Spine
Weakness
Womb
Belong
Falling
Laborious
Victims
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For centuries, pates have been one of the greatest vehicles for wild game. But making a pate, which is nothing more than a meatloaf, has tended to be a laborious task, with ingredient lists as long as a shotgun barrel.
Jonathan Miles /
Barrel
Wild
Centuries
Ingredient
Laborious
Shotgun
Task
Vehicles
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There are all kinds of features that will become part of cell phones that will help us offload the more laborious things of life and let us focus on doing the things humans do well, like abstract thinking and creating.
Martin Cooper / Innovator
Abstract
Creating
Features
Focus
Humans
Phones
Thinking
Cell
Cell Phones
Laborious
Let Us
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When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.
Herbert Croly /
American Life
Fulfillment
Matter
Promise
Purpose
Life Work Purpose
Artful
Conceived
Effect
Ideal
Identify
Laborious
Substantially
Thereof
Whose
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My interest in words and literature is always changing. And every day of work is different, and it doesn't feel laborious in the way that, say, washing dishes did. I'm quite happy to be doing what I'm doing, and I feel very lucky.
Patrick Dewitt / Novelist
Dishes
Washing
Work Always Day
Laborious
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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
Anais Nin / Author
Life
Time
Acquire
Human Beings
Illumination
Instant
People
Staggering
Scale
Beings
Complete
Developments
Few
Fragment
Small
Laborious
Mosaic
Receive
Small Scale
Successive
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Hat-making is laborious and time-consuming. It's a very tactile medium, and you can develop the skills, but it's one of those things: you either have it, or you don't. I love bringing something to fruition with my hands that gives people pleasure.
Philip Treacy / Designer
Fruition
Skills
Tactile
Time Consuming
Bringing
Laborious
Medium
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The whole banking sector in Mexico was literally bankrupt. For whatever reason, instead of intervening in the sector or supporting the banks, the government expropriated them. We went through the very laborious period of selling the failing banks to the wealthy people of Mexico.
Jose Angel Gurria / Economist
Banking
Failing
Intervening
Mexico
Selling
Banks
Laborious
Sector
Supporting
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Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to chapter books. Chapters are often long... 10 pages can seem like a lifetime to a young reader. Then reading becomes laborious and serious. That's why some of the chapters in my books are very short.
Rhea Perlman / Actress
Chapters
Leap
Lifetime
Pages
Picture Books
Reader
Sentences
Chapter
Laborious
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The appearance of aged persons is too well known to make detailed description necessary. The skin of the face is dry and wrinkled and generally pale. The hairs on the head and the body are white. The back is bent, and the gait is slow and laborious, whilst the memory is weak. Such are the most familiar traits of old age.
Elie Metchnikoff / Biologist
Appearance
Bent
Body
Description
Dry
Familiar
Gait
Old Age
Pale
Persons
Traits
Weak
Well Known
Aged
Face
Skin
Detailed
Generally
Hairs
Head
Laborious
Memory
Necessary
Slow
Wrinkled
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This much is true: When we created the euro, it wasn't possible to create a political union along with it. People weren't ready for that. But since then, they've grown more willing to go in that direction. It's a process, one that is sometimes laborious and sometimes slow. But it's important to keep the populations involved.
Wolfgang Schauble / Former Federal Minister Of The Interior (Germany)
Euro
Direction
Grown
Laborious
Union
Slow
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
Daniel H. Pink / Author
Despair
Each Day
Little Bit
Progress
Remains
Self Loathing
Tiny
Agent
Figured
Incremental
Laborious
Slow
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With all due respect to 'The Vampire Diaries,' doing the same thing, over and over again, for essentially five years straight, it really becomes laborious and tedious, and it becomes a job. You obviously find gratification in acting, but you're playing the same character. No matter how compelling it is, it starts feeling pretty monotonous.
Paul Wesley / Actor
Acting
Compelling
Diaries
Five
Gratification
Monotonous
Tedious
Vampire
Becomes
Due
Essentially
Laborious
Straight
Obviously
Same Thing
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