Samin Nosrat Quotes

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.

I had been on the TV show 'Eight is Enough' for four years. Working on a show like that is like working in a factory.

No doubt, every job has repetitive aspects.

I had the most boring office job in the world...I used to clean the windows on envelopes.

You don't want to get into doing the same thing, over and over again. I know I don't.

The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.

My life at home gives me absolute joy. There are some days when, as soon as you've finished cooking breakfast and cleaning up the kitchen, it's time to start lunch, and by the time you've done that, you're doing dinner and thinking, 'There has to be a menu we can order from.'

It's really a drag to do the same project over and over again.

Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.

The price I have personally paid for these extra Sisyphean years has been prohibitive.

My time on television began, and I started playing victims. I did about 10 or 12 years of them, which gets boring, right?

Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.

The leads are often the boring part.

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king's business.

I get quite fed up being on a film set day after day, six days a week. It can get to be a grind.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.

I love musicals, but I find it's just so deadening. You know, 30 takes, you do a little piece here and a little piece there. There's hours and hours of waiting. And to me, that's as far away from real performance as you can get.

If you try to make money doing something you're not enjoying, it's a hard way to make money.

What's so fun about doing the same thing again and again? You can only slap the handcuffs on a guy so many times.

I've enjoyed my time as an actor, but felt work was becoming repetitive.

I'm not good at doing the same thing over and over again.

When you go to a film set, of course you're going to do your job, and you're excited about being there, but you somehow feel fatigued that you are just doing this day in and day out.