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• If you give the audience what they expect, they'll be bored. There are no rules: You do what you want while respecting the boundaries. You don't poke people in the eye; you do things they haven't seen before and make it accessible, funny and clever.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Clever, Eye, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.

  Jean-Michel Basquiat

  Painting, Week, Ifs

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• We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and round bored wells here and there in favored races and places, but He flows in grand undivided currents, shoreless and boundless over creeds and forms and all kinds of civilizations and peoples and beasts, saturating all and fountainizing all.

  John Muir

  God, Civilization, Race

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.167, The Mountaineers Books

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• I get really bored if I don't have more than one thing going on.

  Jewel

  Book, Reading, Get Real

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• Needy and boring parents tend to have needy and bored children.

  Amy Dickinson

  Children, Women, Parent

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• I'm bored, I'm the chairman of the board.

  Iggy Pop

  Work, Boards, Chairman

  Song: I'm Bored, Album: New Values, 1979

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• I don't have any delusions of grandeur. I just want to make music that doesn't make me bored.

  El-P

  Want, Delusions Of Grandeur, Delusion

  Interview with Sam Chennault, pitchfork.com. August 1, 2002.

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• I love travel because you may be uncomfortable, hungry, hot and sweaty, cold and shivering…but damn it, you will never be bored.

  Tony Wheeler

  Hot, May, Cold

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• Wilderness appealed to those bored or disgusted with man and his works. It not only offered an escape from society but also was an ideal stage for the Romantic individual to exercise the cult that he frequently made of his own soul. The solitude and total freedom of the wilderness created a perfect setting for either melancholy or exultation.

  Roderick Nash

  Exercise, Men, Perfect

  Roderick Nash (2001). “Wilderness and the American Mind”, p.47, Yale University Press

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• The life of meditation and religious study is absolutely no guarantee of peak moments. Most people involved in religious study and meditation are downright bored, and they're as stuck in what they do as everyone else is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, People, Meditation

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• It's not going to be that hard to be in Heaven, or the Heavenly City or the Millennium, but you're going to have something to do and something to keep you busy, and you'd be unhappy if you didn't. Wouldn't it be ridiculous after being so busy here if you wound up in Heaven with nothing to do but sit on a cloud playing a harp for a thousand years?-Much less all eternity! I think you'd really get bored.

  David Berg

  Thinking, Years, Cities

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• Whenever I get distracted or bored, my eyes wander over to that chalkboard and I read the words. Some of them grow on me, and others annoy me. I attack the latter with eraser and chalk, and keep nudging at them until I like the way they look and sound. Others never make the cut at all and simply get erased. Perhaps one day I will sell these on eBay to RPG players who need names for characters or alien races.

  Neal Stephenson

  Character, Eye, Cutting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I started as a director, but I was too bored with actors. I preferred to act.

  Peter Stormare

  Directors, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm taking probably the biggest risk of my career in playing the part in Filth. If you stop taking risks, then you get bored, or you just keep playing the same part, over and over again. Eventually audiences get bored of that, as well.

  James McAvoy

  Careers, Risk, Filth

  Source: collider.com

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• Whenever I'm done with an album cycle, I still wanna write music. If I'm bored when I'm at home, which never happens, my first instinct is to go to the piano and bang something out.

  Avril Lavigne

  Home, Writing, Piano

  "Avril Lavigne Chats With Us About Her New Album (Out Now!) and Her Obsessions". Interview with Mickey Woods, www.glamour.com. November 6, 2013.

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• I get tired of the same albums, the same look and singing the same songs. When I get bored I paint, I plant trees and just do something different. I get far away from singing.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Tired, Tree

  "Yes! Jason Mraz returns to his 'coffeehouse performer' roots". Interview with Mike Nunez, www.floridatoday.com. February 11, 2015.

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• I try to make films where the audience forgets the filmmaking and gets engrossed in the story as it unfolds. I don't want them to ever feel bored, or that they're being told what to think, or to feel depressed. I don't like films about victims - I want to celebrate brave survivors like Brenda and the wonderful women in the film.

  Kim Longinotto

  Thinking, Brave, Trying

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In Ireland every place you visit and every person you meet has a story. And they love to tell you their stories. Everyone is interested in everything; in a land of storytellers, you will never be bored.

  Maeve Binchy

  Land, Stories, Storyteller

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• We can be bought, but we cant be bored.

  Lynn Fontanne

  Book, Reading, Cant

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• There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.

  Cesare Pavese

  Mercy

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• I, you know, am all over the place — every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent. I could not make, like Hitchcock did, one Hitchcock picture after another. … I wanted to do a Hitchcock picture, so I did `Witness for the Prosecution,’ then I was bored with it, so I moved on.

  Billy Wilder

  Moved On, Made, Categories

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• We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking by, the dadaists imagined a monkey wrench and the surrealists a crystal cup. That's lost. We know how to read every promise in faces-the latest stage of morphology. The poetry of the billboards lasted twenty years. We are bored in the city, we really have to strain to still discover mysteries on the sidewalk billboards, the latest state of humor and poetry.

  Ivan Chtcheglov

  Years, Cities, Promise

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• The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.

  Douglas Coupland

  Knowing, Answers, Levels

  "Transience Is Now Permanence & the Fate of the Middle Classes (Doomed)". The Edge Annual Question — 2010: "How Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?", www.edge.org. 2010.

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• Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers, bored, or atrophied.

  James Agee

  Hope, Children, Years

  James Agee, Walker Evans (2001). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families”, p.273, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)

  Dale Dauten

  Business, Moving, Mind

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