Planned Parenthood is a tough place to work - the hours are long, the work is emotionally draining, the paperwork is endless, and the morale can run low.
Abby Johnson
To play these twisted, tormented characters is very draining. You have to sit in the pocket of that character for the duration of the shoot, which is normally an average of three months, and that can be taxing!
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
When I first walked in to London, I was so overwhelmed by the village, the sheer volume of people. I was just so excited. You don't know what to expect. So the level of excitement was almost draining, just taking everything in. I was so exhausted after I swam because of all the excitement in the build-up.
Aimee Willmott
Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.
Alvin Ailey
When I play a villain, I usually get home and sleep straight through the night. It's physically and emotionally draining.
Ana Layevska
'Taramani' was a very emotionally draining film for me.
Andrea Jeremiah
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
Movies make teenagers have quippy answers for every question. Nothing seems to faze them, and they're like, 'Oh, whatever.' You're not like that when you're a teenager. You're really earnest. Things really feel like life or death. And you kind of oscillate between emotions at one time. It's very emotionally draining being a teenager.
Bel Powley
A smart, intellectual magazine is a difficult thing to run because of the need to manage conflicting personalities and opinionated writers who clash constantly, whose clashes make the publication better. It is exhausting and draining, and honestly, the only thing that's harder is probably running a university.
Ben Domenech
Our basic assessment was that if America keeps going down these rabbit holes in the Middle East, we're just going to put ourselves out of business as the world leader because we're just draining resources and diplomatic bandwidth, and we're not producing outcomes.
Ben Rhodes
One-day cricket is a lot more draining because it's a lot faster. You don't get as much break. You are running a lot harder.
Ben Stokes
It really is draining: when you sing a song, it means so much to you, and every time you sing it, you feel it ,and these emotions come back.
Benji Madden
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 mentally draining to be on 100% of the time on both ends of the floor, especially when you're the team's undisputed shot creator.
C. J. McCollum
I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
Carli Lloyd
Few years ago when I visited a palliative care centre in Chennai for the first time, it completely moved me. It's an emotionally draining experience. I saw and met patients who were abandoned by their families, and there is complete sense of hopelessness. Ever since, I have been a supporter for the need for funding and awareness of palliative care.
Chinmayi
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
The draining away of James Baldwin's magic was a drama much discussed in the years leading up to his death in 1987 at the age of sixty-three.
Darryl Pinckney
Being on the move all the time is draining, but the rewards make up for it.
David Soul
Both songs are really, really intense when it comes to performing them, and very draining at the same time.
Deborah Cox
When things are tough in training camp; when things are tough in season; when it's good, you don't want guys hitting too high or too low or depressed. It's just draining for everybody.
I don't check Twitter as much or tweet as often because, honestly, sometimes social media is draining and brings out all of the negative things going on.
I'm really sick of the 'one percent' that is taking all the money from this country, draining the middle class, making it nonexistent.
To play in a Super Over at the end of a draining day takes a huge amount of effort.
I'm too diplomatic. I tend to edit my mind before I speak - it can be incredibly draining.
I say no to photographs. When people take my picture, I feel like they've taken a piece of me, and I can't get that back. It's soul-draining.
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.
When you give of yourself, it's draining.
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.
Inequality saps the economy by draining the buying power of Americans whose incomes have stagnated, forcing them to rely on debt to fund education, housing, and health care.
Fighting is a very emotionally draining sport. I don't want to waste time on drama beforehand.
I started homeschooling when I was 13. I wasn't really doing the social media thing yet; I didn't have any fans, but I knew that public school wasn't the place for me. It was draining my creativity, and so both my parents supported me in being homeschooled, and they really gave me a chance to focus on getting good at guitar.
When you work for something, no matter hard it is, no matter how time consuming, how draining it is, you work for it.
I champion a real campaign to tackle the rampant corruption that is draining Saudi resources, both financial and human.
Anger and bad experiences used to fuel my performances, but it was horribly draining.
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.
If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them. The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Donald Trump became President of the United States because of a simple but potent combination of promises: draining the swamp, building the wall, correcting free trade imbalances, and making America great again.
In its early days, Trump's presidency ought to be viewed as the arduous start to the complicated task of draining the Washington swamp.
A lot of people don't realize the toll put on activists. There's a very draining element to it.
For me, it's always been draining to be around people for too long because I'm naturally a pretty expressionless person. From an early age, I found being alone incredibly liberating.
Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.
My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
Honestly, the pains of humanity have been draining me.
The only thing with press attention is that it can be very draining on our energy store.
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.
