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“Growing up in the business you have to grow up very fast - you do have a different type of childhood, that has its benefits and it has its drawbacks.”

Different Grows Growing Up Growing Childhood Type Benefits Drawbacks

Author:Jodi Sweetin

“Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.”

Men Said Law Mother He Man Died Expenses Funeral In-laws Mother In Law Drawbacks

Author:St. Jerome

“I know that aiming at perfection has its drawbacks. It makes you go into details that you can avoid but that is the only way you can achieve excellence. So, in that case, being finicky is essential.”

Knows Way Cases Achieve Essentials Perfection Excellence Details Drawbacks

Author:J. R. D. Tata

“As for 'story' I never yet did enjoy a novel or play in which someone didn't tell me afterward that there was something wrong with the story, so that's going to be no drawback as far as I'm concerned. "Good Lord, why am I so bored" "I know; it must be the plot developing harmoniously." So I often reply to myself, and there rises before me my special nightmare that of the writer as craftsman, natty and deft.”

Knows Play Stories Enjoy Lord Novel Special Concerned Developing Bored Nightmare Plot Craftsman Drawbacks So Bored

Author:E. M. Forster

“I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.”

Men Years Two Enough Song Television Critics Deny Limitation Comedian Candidates Two Years Drawbacks Song And Dance

Author:Pat Paulsen

“Ah! that quite does for me. I haven't a word to say... Too much care was taken with our education, I am afraid. To have been well brought up is a great drawback nowadays. It shuts one out from so much.”

Wells Doe Has Beens Care Taken Too Much Havens Drawbacks

Book:The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings

Source: The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings

“I write from a thorough conviction that it is the duty of me, and with the belief that, after every drawback and shortcoming, I do my best, all things considered--that is for me, and, so being, the not being listened to by one human creature would, I hope, in nowise affect me.”

Writing Humans Belief Duty Creatures All Things Conviction Shortcomings Thorough Drawbacks

Book:Love Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett

Source: Love Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett

“For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own music--with the same nuances forever.”

Knows Important Matter Facts Sound Chance My Own Forever Wonderful Elements Built Performances Important Things Nuance Drawbacks Live Performance

Author:Aaron Copland

“Of course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long.”

Way Long Courses Killing Oneself Another Way Drawbacks

Author:Imre Kertész

“If you want excellence, you must aim at perfection. It makes you go into detail that you can avoid. It takes a lot of energy out of you but that's the only way you finally actually achieve excellence. So in that sense, being finicky is essential.”

Ifs Want Essentials Perfection Aim Excellence Drawbacks

Author:J. R. D. Tata

“Jail is a good experience but it has its drawbacks ... all the disadvantages of married life with none of its compensations.”

Married Prison Jail Compensation Disadvantages Married Life Drawbacks Good Experiences

Author:Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

“fear is a dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment.”

Moments Fear Live In The Moment Drawbacks

Author:Edna O'Brien

“My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards.”

Turns Challenges Instinct Drawing Cards Drawbacks

Book:The Eminent American Comedienne Marie Dressler in The Life Story of an Ugly Duckling: An Autobiographical Fragment in Seven Parts

Source: The Eminent American Comedienne Marie Dressler in The Life Story of an Ugly Duckling: An Autobiographical Fragment in Seven Parts

“There was the usual dreaminess, I suppose. Also a shyness that caused me - and others - to notice that I could express myself better by writing than by speaking. This is typical of many writers, I think. What is a drawback in childhood is an asset to a literary life. Not being fluent on one’s feet sends one to the page and a habit is born.”

Thinking Writing Born Feet Childhood Habit Pages Assets Usual Typical Shyness Drawbacks Fluent

Author:Lorrie Moore

“I find many drawbacks of myself. But, each time when I visit Lourdes, I receive a lesson of reconciliation. When you see ill people or invalids around, you realize that it is a sin to complain!”

People Realizing Sin Lessons Ill Complaining Reconciliation Drawbacks Lourdes

Author:Mireille Mathieu

“Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time.”

Persons Time Found Loses Personality Assuming Bounds Thinker Single Person Drawbacks

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - too much money, and too few ideas.”

Ideas Character Form Certain Class Too Much Stupid Victim Usual Obscure Inhuman Drawbacks Gout

Author:Mary Augusta Ward

“It is indeed one of the principal drawbacks of every kind of interventionism that it is so difficult to reverse the process.”

Kind Process Difficult Reverse Principal Drawbacks Interventionism

Book:Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

“The ex-Presidential situation has its advantages, but with them are certain drawbacks. The correspondence is large. The meritorious demands on one are large. More independent out than in place, but still something of the bondage of the place that was willingly left. On the whole, however, I find many reasons to be content.”

Stills Reason Whole Certain Left Situation Demand Advantage Independent Presidential Retirement Bondage Exes Correspondence Drawbacks

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“Drawbacks are good when you are on holiday. If the holiday were too good you might not want to go home again.”

Ifs Want Home Might Travel Holiday Drawbacks

Author:Katharine Tynan

“Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.--Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.”

Source: Nature - Conduct of Life

“There are drawbacks in being famous too, but you can live with those. They're not life-threatening. If the paparazzi are outside your restaurant or your house - and actors make such a big thing of it and scurry into cars and drape things - you think they're going to be crucified or something. It's not a big deal. You can get used to that. It's not so terrible.”

Ifs Thinking Bigs Used Actors House Deals Car Terrible Restaurants Threatening Big Things Big Deal Paparazzi Being Famous Drawbacks Drapes

Author:Woody Allen

“Nuclear power, once regarded as petroleum's natural heir, has become less and less attractive as its numerous drawbacks come to light. Coal, the other fossil fuel, is ultimately as exhaustible as oil.”

Light Natural Environmental Oil Nuclear Attractive Fuel Coal Fossils Extremist Fossil Fuel Heirs Nuclear Power Drawbacks Petroleum

Author:Lester R. Brown

“The opportunity to be able to tell stories to a massive audience is really incredible and this job couldn't be more satisfying. So, any drawbacks I think are worth it if you really enjoy the work. I hope to be doing this until I die.”

Ifs Thinking Stories Able Jobs Dies Opportunity Enjoy Audience Incredibles Massive Satisfying Worth It Drawbacks

Author:Olivia Wilde

“Sometimes things which at the moment may be perceived as obstacles-and actually be obstacles, difficulties, or drawbacks-can in the long run result in some good end which would not have occurred if it had not been for the obstacle.”

Ifs May Long Ends Sometimes Moments Running Results Difficulty Adversity Obstacles Long Runs Drawbacks

Author:Steve Allen

“There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one's anonymity.”

People Feelings Young Difficult Loses Numbers Large Numbers Anonymity Drawbacks

Author:John Knowles

“The term "bend sinister" means a heraldic bar or band drawn from the left side (and popularly, but incorrectly, supposed to denote bastardy). This choice of title was an attempt to suggest an outline broken by refraction, a distortion in the mirror of being, a wrong turn taken by life, a sinistral and sinister world. The title's drawback is that a solemn reader looking for "general ideas" or "human interest" (which is much the same thing) in a novel may be led to look for them in this one.”

World Humans Looks May Mean Ideas Turns Choices Left Sides Term Interest Novel Taken Broken Reader Band Mirrors Bars Titles Solemn Outlines Distortion Sinister Drawbacks Wrong Turn

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“As far as population size goes, big is no longer important, and it can even be a drawback. In fact, the future belongs more to second-tier cities. Any place can become a world-class center today by finding an area in which it outperforms others, by thinking for the long term, by expanding its competitive abilities and by operating globally.”

Thinking World Long Important Facts Bigs Today Term Ability Cities Class Findings Areas Size Population Long Term Expanding World Class Drawbacks

Author:Charles Landry

“One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us happy.”

Danger Drawbacks

Book:On Love: A Novel

Source: On Love: A Novel

“Young men may enjoy dropping their work at five or six o'clock and slipping into a dress suit for an evening of pleasure; but the habit has certain drawbacks.”

Men May Young Certain Enjoy Pleasure Five Habit Six Dresses Suits Evening Clock Young Man Dropping Slipping Drawbacks

Book:Succeeding With What You Have

Source: Succeeding With What You Have

“Men have to be hooked. Women don't need that. Women go freely into anything. That's their power and at the same time their drawback. Men have to be led and women have to be contained”

Men Needs Hooked Drawbacks

Book:Second Ring of Power

Source: Second Ring of Power

“I always say when you see that old black-and-white footage of the rocket on the launch pad and it falls over and explodes, that's because people had slide rules. Not having the decimal point is a real drawback. You want the decimal point, take it from me.”

People Want Real Fall Black White Black And White Slides Rockets Pads Drawbacks Decimals

Author:Bill Nye

“When I first started doing stand-up, I would be so nervous that I would just binge drink really heavily right before my sets, and as you can imagine, that had its drawbacks. But now I'm a professional, so I pace myself throughout the day.”

Firsts Would Be Imagine Drink Nervous Pace Imagine That Binge Drawbacks

Author:Bonnie McFarlane

“I'm very interested in religion and different religions, and I know quite a lot about it. I love gospel music, and I love going to churches, but the one drawback is that I don't actually believe in God. And it is quite a handicap, you know.”

Knows Believe Different Church Believe In God Handicaps Drawbacks Going To Church Different Religions Gospel Music

Author:Nick Lowe

“I was very fortunate to be at a wealthy institution. I do recognize the drawbacks and limitations of the academic world but it's basically the world I grew up in and there's no way in which I would have been able to survive in the so-called real world.”

World Way Has Beens Real Able Grew Grew Up Institutions Limitation Fortunate Wealthy Real World Academic Drawbacks

Author:Paul Lansky

“My sense is that beautiful women are living in a different world than I am, and that it's a world with benefits but also drawbacks - like, you're on a ticking clock, because the day you stop being supermodel-beautiful is the day that everything the world has to offer you is no longer being offered.”

World Different Beautiful Like You Offers Benefits Clock Beautiful Women Different Worlds Drawbacks Supermodel

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“I tend to enunciate pretty well. It's always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily - which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters because you're supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go "Oh, it's 'Weird Al.'"”

People Wells Looks Has Beens Sometimes Character Bits Voice Loses Als Losing Yourself Drawbacks Weird Al

Author:Al Yankovic

“The main drawback, of course, was cost. Participating effectively in World Summit on the Information Society was very expensive for both developing countries and (especially) civil society.”

World Country Courses Information Cost Developing Expensive Summit Participating Civil Society Developing Countries Drawbacks Information Society

Author:David Souter

“I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing.”

Thinking Writing Stills Facts Used Fighting Hours Fire Eight Coming Back Fireman Drawbacks

Author:David Mamet

“Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.”

Knows Inspiring Fame Compensation Fickle Drawbacks

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.”

Hearing Spells Drawbacks

Author:Bill Nye

“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.”

Change Moving On Life Changing Thought Provoking Discomfort Change Management Positive Change Change For The Better Trying To Change Drawbacks Inspirational Change Resistance To Change Accepting Change Feeling Stuck Willing To Change

Book:How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams

Source: How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams

“Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.”

Ifs Men Our Lives Please Fame Direct Pursue Fancy Drawbacks

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!”

Humor Lord Teacher Yeah Minors Great Teacher Drawbacks Sticking Out Lord Voldemort

Author:J. K. Rowling

“In general she had found that the main drawback in being a man was that conversations were less interesting.”

Men Found Interesting Conversation Drawbacks

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster.”

Men Humans Would Be Sex Men And Women Sexuality Monsters Trapped Drawbacks

Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.”

“The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and electronically speaking. Bed, its utter inactivity, offers a glimpse of eternity, without the drawback of being dead.”

Perfect Offers Bed Opposites Eternity Stillness Glimpse Default Inertia Drawbacks Inactivity Stasis

Book:Not Now, Voyager: A Memoir

Source: Not Now, Voyager: A Memoir

“Restrooms at gas stations were an unpleasant and shocking surprise; I had never considered the serious drawbacks of such lazily-cleaned rooms. I was completely unable to ignore the filth, and wasted a burst of power to turn the sink, floors and porcelain toilet into sparkling, clean examples of their kind before using the facility. I felt that was a much less judgmental response than simply blowing the place off the face of the Earth, which was also a distinct temptation, especially when the storekeeper overcharged me for a bottle of cold water.”

“The worst part of it is you don't know if he's barking at an owl, the moon or a burglar!" "That's one of the drawbacks of a limited vocabulary!”

Ifs Knows Worst Moon Vocabulary Owl Drawbacks Burglars

Author:Charles M. Schulz