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• I get bored in Hollywood.

  Rosie Perez

  Hollywood

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• I think a person needs to learn from childhood to find himself alone. It means to not be bored when you’re by yourself, because a person who finds himself bored when alone –as it seems to me– is in danger.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Mean, Thinking, Childhood

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• People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  People, Danger, Company

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• ...it seemed appropriate that I should develop some kind of illness. This is a good idea when you are at a loose end because everything, up to and including herpes, is better than being bored.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Ideas, Kind, Illness

  Jeremy Clarkson (2004). “The world according to Clarkson”

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• The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.

  Scott Caan

  Movie, Writing, Kind

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I got a bit bored of just me and my guitar.

  Elena Tonra

  Guitar, Bits

  "Daughter (No 1,116)" by Paul Lester, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2011.

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• I'm bored way too easily. I'm staring at screens half the day. I need to be overstimulated. And how will that express itself artistically?

  Bo Burnham

  Needs, Half, Way

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• I've purposely stayed away from reading much about postmodern theory, and most everything I have read just bored me to tears. I don't think anybody's written about it, or very few have, with any verve.

  Dave Eggers

  Reading, Thinking, Tears

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 23, 2005.

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• The only thing worse than being bored is being boring.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Boring, Bores, Being Bored

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• If they learn easily, they are penalized for being bored when they have nothing to do; if they excel in some outstanding way, they are penalized as being conspicuously better than the peer group. The culture tries to make the child with a gift into a one-sided person, to penalize him at every turn, to cause him trouble in making friends and to create conditions conducive to the development of a neurosis. Neither teachers, the parents of other children, nor the child peers will tolerate a Wunderkind.

  Margaret Mead

  Motivational, Teacher, Children

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• Of course, we can distinguish between males and females; we can also, if we choose, distinguish between different age categories; but any more advanced distinction comes close to pedantry, probably a result of boredom. A creature that is bored elaborates distinctions and hierarchies. According to Hutchinson and Rawlins, the development of systems of hierarchical dominance within animal societies does not correspond to any practical necessity, nor to any selective advantage; it simply constitutes a means of combating the crushing boredom of life in the heart of nature.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Crush, Heart, Mean

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• I get a little sick of myself as a solo artist. I get a little bit bored.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Artist, Sick, Littles

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• If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the company we leave most bored.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Feelings, Satisfied, Bores

  Giacomo Leopardi, Ángel Flores (1966). “Poems and prose”

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• If you want to get a pet for your child, I suggest a chicken so that when they get bored of it after a couple of days at least you can have a nice roast dinner.

  Jo Brand

  Children, Couple, Nice

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• If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Bothering You, Hands

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• Here's what I've learned about raising boys... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. You let 'em get bored, they'll dismantle your house board by board.

  Kenny Rogers

  Boys, House, Boards

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• Keep the child within alive. A child never tires of hearing the birds sing, never gets bored looking at flowers.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Nature, Children, Flower

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• No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the resurrection and the life.

  Joyce Cary

  Doubt, Treasure, Resurrection

  Joyce Cary (1958). “First trilogy: Herself surprised: To be a pilgrim. The horse's mouth”

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• I'm not someone who can lie on a beach and do nothing. I am not sure what you are supposed to do, so I get bored. I prefer to have a purpose, such as going to Alaska to see orca whales.

  Miranda Richardson

  Beach, Lying, Alaska

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• I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.

  Wim Wenders

  Thinking, Might, Juxtaposition

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• I would get very bored if I just did one thing.

  Alexa Chung

  One Thing, Ifs

  "Alexa Chung For L'Oréal Professionnel INOA". Interview with Lisa Niven, www.vogue.co.uk. February 22, 2013.

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• I want to feel something, as a person. I don't want to be bored.

  Pina Bausch

  Want, Feels, Persons

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• I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me. Either they think I'm a pedophile or a deadbeat dad. That's what I get for being a single dad - suspicious looks at the playground.

  Dominic West

  Mother, Dad, Thinking

  "Down to The Wire with Dominic West". Intervie with Sara Bliss, www.esquire.com. December 31, 2006.

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• Law and Order' is completely story-driven and completely characterless, really. If you do that format for five years and you're an actor, you're bound to get bored. It wears on you. And it was really wearing on me.

  Chris Noth

  Order, Years, Law

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I take pictures at a party, I never get bored.

  Jean Pigozzi

  Party, Ifs

  "The Art World's Most Fabulous Women" by Miranda Purves, www.elle.com. November 30, 2011.

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