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I had seen Orange Is The New Black show on Netflix and the first thing that came to my mind was, Why am I not on this show? It's just irritating me right now. So I made some phone calls and told them, I want to be on

I had seen Orange Is The New Black show on Netflix and the first thing that came to my mind was, "Why am I not on this show? It's just irritating me right now." So I made some phone calls and told them, "I want to be on your show." And they found a spot for me.

Lori Petty
Black, Mind, Irritating
Source: www.avclub.com

It is really irritating to work with irritating people

Joshua Ferris
People, Irritating People, Irritating
Joshua Ferris (2008). “Then We Came to the End”, p.12, Penguin UK

Twitter is unspeakably irritating. Twitter stands for everything I oppose.

Jonathan Franzen
Irritating
"Jonathan Franzen: 'Twitter is the ultimate irresponsible medium'" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2012.

A good example is more irritating than a bad one.

John McAfee
Example, Irritating, Good Examples
John McAfee's presentation in Munich, January 1991.

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it. And it's pretty irritating to get a movie on. So to complicate it by having more irritation as a director, I don't really need it. And because I direct a great deal still, but in the theater, I kind of get that anyway. Which is not at all to say I would never do it again, or it would never happen again.

John Malkovich
Kind, Irritating, Direct
Source: film.avclub.com

What you really need to build a character is exactly what you don't have in the movies - time. You know, movies are like a line drawing. You have to make very quick decisions, which are, in the end instinctive. Or you make a decision to say "Well, maybe I can do that, because... Oh, that could be irritating after a while, or distracting, etc. etc." Some of it is a matter of time, always.

John Malkovich
Character, Decision, Irritating
Source: film.avclub.com

I've always admired your ability to be unilaterally irritating.

Jim Butcher
Ability, Irritating
Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.32, Penguin

A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

Daniel Handler
New Experiences, Trying, Irritating

It was like being around a particularly irritating two-year-old.

Charlaine Harris
Years, Two Year Olds, Irritating
Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.785, Penguin

She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.

Ann Brashares
Littles, Made, Irritating
Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.876, Delacorte Press

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