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Tag Name "Thankless" (32)

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Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they'll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.
Andrei Tarkovsky
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Making the ungrateful grateful will bring tears to your eyes, tears of blood bleeding from the heart.
Ana Monnar
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In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself.
Katie Roiphe
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Often our good deeds make enemies for us, and the ungrateful person despises us on two counts for he is not only unwilling to acknowledge the gratitude he owes us: he does not want to have his benefactor as witness to his thankless behavior.
Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
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Being a caretaker is, and never will be, an easy job in fact, it is that hardest job in the world and many times a thankless job. You have to be the pillar of strength even when you feel like you are crumbling to pieces inside.
Jenna Morasca
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We are surrounded every day by people who do thankless but important work.
Brian Kilmeade
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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
Tecumseh
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I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.
Thomas Jefferson
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Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
Doris Day
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Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
George Orwell
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Raising kids may be a thankless job with ridiculous hours, but at least the pay sucks.
Jim Gaffigan
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L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.
Nick Cave
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I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.
Francois Truffaut
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It's not so much a thankless task, it's more a job with no thanks
Colin Baker
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Being a good embalmer is a thankless job.
Matt Groening
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Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless - why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds?
Upamanyu Chatterjee
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Scarlett O'Hara is going to be a thankless and difficult role. The part I'd like to play is Rhett Butler.
Norma Shearer
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I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I'm sick of the job-it's a thankless one and full of grief. I've been spending the best years of my life as a public benefactor.
Al Capone
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
William Shakespeare
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When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All you can do is to fail in the least egregious way possible.
Jay L. Garfield
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The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
William Hazlitt
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Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.
Julius Erving
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Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.
Rudyard Kipling
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I've done a lot of going back and forth with my own writing, in particular translating my English language stuff into Ukrainian - poetry as well as prose. But I actually hate doing it. It is a thankless, mind-numbing process, additionally unpleasant for me because it reminds me of my ambiguous status of not belonging anywhere.
Yuriy Tarnawsky
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