Boring Quotes - Page 34

• The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.

  Amy Poehler

  Writing, Truth Is, Hard

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.2, Pan Macmillan

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• The things keeping you back-these embarrassing, boring, stupid obstacles-are the heart of what it is to be human. They’re the whole reason for making and needing art. So you might as well go ahead and begin in whatever way you can right now.

  Miranda July

  Art, Stupid, Might

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• Perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring."
  I smile. "You don't think I'm perfect?"
  "No. You're delightfully screwy, and I wouldn't have you any other way.

  Stephanie Perkins

  Thinking, Perfect, Way

  Stephanie Perkins (2014). “Lola and the Boy Next Door”, p.14, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Be boring. (It’s the only way to get work done.)

  Austin Kleon

  Done, Way, Work Done

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• If you pay attention, everyone is a novel. The most boring person, if you sit down and really listen, is someone interesting.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Interesting, Attention, Down And

  "Their Time Is Now". Interview with Philip Galanes, www.nytimes.com. February 7, 2014.

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• The time for boring ethical discussions around disability is over. It's only through feelings of admiration, aspiration, curiosity and envy that we can move forward.

  Viktoria Modesta

  Moving, Envy, Feelings

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• The brain doesn't pay attention to boring things.

  John Medina

  Brain, Attention, Pay

  John Medina (2014). “Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School”, p.68, Pear Press

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• I want everyone to know I'm coming out of retirement because it's time to free the MMA world of the virus that's known as Tito Ortiz. We've been suffering through his boring fights for too many years, and it's about time that someone beats it out of him once and for all.

  Stephan Bonnar

  Retirement, Fighting, Mma

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• I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Journalism, Language

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny About Thi”, p.235, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Before Girls on Ice, mountains were just mountains. Valleys were just valleys. Now when I see them they're full of questions and stories. Girls on Ice encouraged a new kind of curiosity in me about things I would have thought boring before. Now I'm considering to pursue Geology after high school. Girls on Ice opened a door to new thoughts and interests for me to consider for my future.

  Chloe Smith

  Girl, School, Doors

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• Billy Graham is a boring, racist charlatan.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religion, Racist, Charlatans

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• I guess for my skin, I clean it and moisturize and try to drink water. How boring is this though? I'm convinced that it comes from within. If you're happy and healthy, it shows.

  Olivia Wilde

  Water, Healthy, Skins

  "Olivia Wilde Talks Adventures in Beauty". Interview with Taylor Barringer, www.elle.com. March 27, 2013.

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• When brands talk about themselves in real time, it’s just boring faster.

  Jay Baer

  Real, Social Media, Faster

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• And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.

  Christian Bale

  Bored, Parent, Routine

  "New Again: Christian Bale". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 17, 2012.

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• My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.

  Christian Bale

  Dad, Influence, My Dad

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• I keep hearing I'm a crazy party guy... I'm not. I'm boring... At least by party standards.

  Brad Pitt

  Crazy, Party, Guy

  "A Conversation Runs Through It". Interview with Bruce Handy, content.time.com. October 13, 1997.

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• The villain is usually the most interesting part. But it has to be a smart thing. Just dumb cliché villains with a Russian accent and big muscles and a mean face, I don’t know. My Russian accent isn’t that great, and the muscles aren’t that big and the mean face is not enough. You know what I mean? It gets very boring. Tedious stuff.

  Christoph Waltz

  Smart, Mean, Interesting

  "Christoph Waltz On Set Interview THE GREEN HORNET". Interview with Andre Dellamorte, collider.com. July 13, 2010.

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• I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. 'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

  Andrew Scott

  Mind, Acting, Serious

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Why be boring? Have some fun. Rock shows should be like movies: I don't go to a movie hoping it'll change my life.

  Alice Cooper

  Fun, Rocks, Should

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

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• Being young isn't about age, it's about being a free spirit. You can meet someone of 20 who's boring and old, or you can meet someone of 70 who's youthful and exciting. I met Fred Astaire when he was 72 and I was 21, and I fell in love with him. He certainly was a free spirit.

  Twiggy

  Free Spirit, Age, Mets

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• I'm boring. I stay home, watch TV, and eat a lot of fast food. That's really exciting, isn't it?

  Robert Pattinson

  Home, Watches, Tvs

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• I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.

  Kat Dennings

  Reason, No Reason

  "Is this it?". www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2009.

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• To me, the difference between New York and London is that things are boring and staid in London.

  Theo James

  New York, Differences, London

  "Theo James (AKA Mr. Pamuk on Downton!) On His New Show Golden Boy, NYC, and More". Interview with Anna Moeslein, www.glamour.com. February 26, 2013.

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• I know I'm flawed - but perfect is boring anyway! Flawed is good!

  Priyanka Chopra

  Perfect, Flawed, Knows

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• There was nothing the matter with me that was not also the matter with everyone else. I was not as interesting as I thought I was. My major problem, inadequate or inappropriate love from my parents, was as common as dirt. And one rainy day, all the boring poignancy of these realizations detonated in me like an atom bomb, burning the dead shadow of each former torment or preoccupation onto solid rock. Those silhouettes, that record would remain: the museum where I used to be.

  J. D. Daniels

  Rainy Day, Rocks, Museums

  J. D. Daniels (2017). “The Correspondence”, p.25, Random House

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