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• You never get bored ... when you have the probabilities of your next meal to speculate on, pro and con.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Meals, Next, Pros And Cons

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (1917). “Our Square and the People in it”

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• Among the idle rich, boredom is one of the most common causes of unhappiness. People who have difficulty in earning their living may suffer greatly, but they are not bored. Wealthy men and women become bored when they depend upon the theater for their enjoyment instead of making their own lives interesting.

  Andre Maurois

  Men, Boredom, People

  "The Art of Happiness". Book by Andre Maurois, 1971.

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• Happiness is this place that, once you arrive there, you have nothing else to do. You get bored. Passion is this up and down; it's like a rollercoaster, you know, and much more interesting to me.

  Paulo Coelho

  Passion, Interesting, Rollercoaster

  "Book Talk: Paulo Coelho on life, work and 'Adultery'". Interview with Lisa Von Ahn, www.reuters.com. November 13, 2014.

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• When I got into comedy, which was really for acting, I would see the guys who would be considered great today. They were great, but after a few minutes I could get kind of bored because they wouldn't move around. The dress code was boring to me. I didn't want to see the guy next door when I'm watching a performer. I wanted to see someone I would pay a ticket for.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Moving, Doors, Guy

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Boredom has to be the most life sapping, mental disease you can be afflicted with.The most accurate definition of boredom I have ever heard is this - Boredom is the absence of a creative idea. But there is a simple cure - begin to think immediately of a better way to do something. The creative juices are within you but you must turn on the tap. Those who are bored are not living; they are dying. When their heart stops beating, it will be a mere formality. The best way to do anything has never been thought of. Get on a creative improvement kick and jar others mentally into the same activity.

  Bob Proctor

  Heart, Simple, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Apr 28, 2012

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• I was very bored at school. I found it very easy and slow and grey. My teachers didn't really know how to handle me, because I was very sarcastic. I was over-confident, arrogant, a typical youngest child. I went through periods of withdrawing into myself and school psychologists tried to figure me out, work out why I didn't fit in. I found that irritating, too.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Sarcastic, Teacher, Children

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• I grew up listening to Patsy Klein, Reba Mcentire and would study their voices. But once I became bored with that, I moved on to more contemporary stuff like Sheryl Crow and I combined everything that I had learned from country and rock and made this CD.

  Hope Partlow

  Country, Rocks, Cds

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• I see the booing as a nice bit of banter and at least it means the fans aren't bored. It's quality. I enjoy it to be honest and I'm getting it even more than Robbie Savage, which is really saying something.

  David Bentley

  Nice, Mean, Quality

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• I feel lost not doing art, unsatisfied, anxious, bored. Everything else in comparison seems not terribly important.

  Nancy Crow

  Art, Important, Lost

  Nancy Crow (2006). “Nancy Crow”

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• When you get questions that annoy you the art is answering them differently. If you're bored with it, then everyone will be bored with it.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Art, Annoying, Ifs

  "Don Hertzfeldt’s Animated Short “It’s Such A Beautiful Day” Screens At IFC". Interview with Kathleen Massara, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2012.

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• There's a kind of edge to what you're doing, the kind of leading edge of what you're doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. "I've pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can't I'm just fed up with that. Let's do something else."And you always think "Oh my God I've never done anything at all like that before." But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they'll say, "Oh, yeah that's typical Eno.

  Brian Eno

  Thinking, Retrospect, Outsiders

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• If a film or any piece of work doesn't entertain, it fails - and that is using the word entertain literally, meaning it holds you there and you become absorbed by it so that you don't walk away and get bored and so on.

  Mike Leigh

  Pieces, Film, Failing

  "Big Think Interview With Mike Leigh". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• When you have to worry about paying the rent, you're never bored. You're just happy to have that job. But once you don't have to worry and reach the point where it's no longer about the money, you're able to look at other opportunities outside of your comfort zone.

  Martin Short

  Jobs, Opportunity, Worry

  Source: deadline.com

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• I'd love to see us get to a point where you can make a movie and not worry about the limits of the violence. Then I think they'd get so violent that people would get bored of it.

  Eli Roth

  Thinking, People, Worry

  Source: deadline.com

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• I worked in Bhs, but I was only there for a couple of weeks before I got fired because I needed the Saturday off to go to drama club. I was useless - I was so bored. There was nothing to do, so I'd go and do a circuit of the store, throwing jumpers on the floor, then go and pick them up. It wasn't rock 'n' roll rebellion, it was just to look busy. They tried to teach me how to work the till and I'm useless with numbers, so I was making it all up as I went along. I must have lost them tons of money.

  Joanna Page

  Couple, Drama, Numbers

  "Within minutes of meeting James Corden, you'll want to sleep with him". The MIRROR Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. June 13, 2008.

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• Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view. Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry.

  Ernst Haas

  Taken, Reality, Views

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• People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilisation; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.

  Kenneth Clark

  Boredom, Long, People

  Kenneth Clark (2015). “Civilisation”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• Stress is not the spice of life any more than arsenic is. And without it, you won't feel bored.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Stress, Arsenic, Spices

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• Writing can be wonderful therapy, and cheap at the price. At the very least, you eventually get bored by thinking about anxious topics and move on.

  Ralph Keyes

  Moving, Writing, Thinking

  Ralph Keyes (2003). “The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear”, p.91, Macmillan

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• The worst sin, the ultimate sin for me, in anything, is to be bored.

  Ted Turner

  Boredom, Sin, Worst

  Ted Turner, Janet Lowe (1999). “Ted Turner speaks: insight from the world's greatest maverick”, Wiley

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• You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring.

  Lord Hailsham

  Boredom, Boring, Ashamed

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• I'm not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there's going to be this number of seasons, and I know exactly what's going to happen. I would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.

  Alan Ball

  Journey, Numbers, Would Be

  Interview with Scott Tobias, tv.avclub.com. September 7, 2008.

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• Nobody wants to know what I'm doing 24 hours a day, they'd be painfully bored, trust me. At the same time, if I'm doing something interesting or funny, I like being able to share that with my fans.

  Josh Duhamel

  Interesting, Fans, Want

  "Josh Duhamel: It Doesn't Take Much To Make Me Cry". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. January 14, 2013.

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• It's challenging and interesting for me to work on projects that are unique and unconventional. I'm so bored with seeing the same recycled material.

  Nina Dobrev

  Unique, Interesting, Challenges

  "The Final Girls" Star Nina Dobrev Talks the Surprising Horror Film, "Vampire Diaries", and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 9, 2015.

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• And when you're with a great crew like we had, it becomes a thrilling, again, collaboration, which is to me one of the great aspects of the process that you go through. I find myself at this point in my career, getting potentially, incredibly bored if I stand around a lot, so that's why I really like the pace of television.

  Glenn Close

  Careers, Collaboration, Pace

  "Glenn Close Embraces Damages". Interview with Evan Jacobs, www.movieweb.com. October 24, 2007.

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