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.

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.

The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my family's relationship with each other.

Some people never contribute anything positive to society they may even drain our resources but most of us try to do something better to give back.

Choreography is mentally draining but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change and I hope it will be really soon.

When I do a 30-minute meal for instance on Food Network that's my food you see at the end of the show and it's not perfect. And if sometimes things break or drop or the pasta hits the wall when I'm draining it they never stop tape. They just kind of let me go with it.

My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer label them and give them as Christmas presents.

People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts neglecting children destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.

Hate is a draining bottomless pit from whence nothing good or of any value can come. Try to eat a balanced diet. Guys only want one thing.

We have the character of an island nation: independent forthright passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this British sensibility than we can drain the English Channel. And because of this sensibility we come to the European Union with a frame of mind that is more practical than emotional.

By the time the children go to bed I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working car pooling building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.

People drain me even the closest of friends and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.