Boring Quotes - Page 40

• I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Ambition, Self, Interesting

  "London calling" by John O'Mahony, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2004.

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• For my money, if I'm playing anything then it has to have some sharp angles on it. It's got to have some edges that you can cut yourself on, otherwise it's boring.

  Grant Bowler

  Cutting, Angle, Ifs

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

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• There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.

  David Eagleman

  Numbers, Infinite, Things To Do

  "The Possibilian" by Burkhard Bilger, www.newyorker.com. April 25, 2011.

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• I am boring. I am boring!

  Bobby Fischer

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• Write from the heart, what has meaning to you personally; have the patience and discipline to sit down and do it every day whether you're feeling inspired or not; never be afraid to take chances, in fact, make sure you take chances. As soon as you become complacent, you become boring ... . Read as much as possible, not simply in the genre, or what you think you're interested in, but other things as well.

  Charles de Lint

  Heart, Writing, Thinking

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• She's not perfect, but she tries so hard for me. And I thank God, that she isn't, cause how boring that would be.

  Brad Paisley

  Family, Perfect, Thank God

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• How boring just to be a body.

  Susan Sontag

  Body

  Susan Sontag (1992). “The Volcano Lover”

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• He regarded life as a rather odd club of which he had accidentally become a member and from which one could be expelled without reasons having to be supplied. He had already decided to leave the club if the meetings should become all too boring. But how boring is boring?

  Cees Nooteboom

  Life, Clubs, Odd

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• I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he's always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow.

  Oded Fehr

  Character, Thinking, Play

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• Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.

  Terry Gross

  Real, Life Is, Edited

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• The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Sin

  "He's all the rage" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2002.

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• I have a horror of boring someone or, worse still, of someone boring me. I said to my mother when I was seven, 'But, Mums, if it was only my husband and me in the house together, what would we talk about?' I've never wanted to answer my own question, and doubt I'll bother now.

  Celia Imrie

  Mother, Husband, House

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• In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible.

  Michael Imperioli

  Drama, America, Challenges

  "The king of New York". Interview With Danny Leigh, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2001.

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• I'm really into football, gadgets, adventurous activities, and cooking new, creative recipes right now - but you'll never catch me being boring.

  Harry Shum, Jr.

  Football, Creative, Cooking

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• The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick.

  Kelly Jones

  Song, Guitar, Paris

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• Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.

  Rachel Johnson

  "Rachel Johnson: 'The "Boris's sister" thing pisses me off'". Interview With Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2012.

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• I feel incredibly lucky at this moment in my career to get paid to do basically exactly what I always wanted to do. I appreciate that in general. But you know, like any job, a job is a job, and there are days that are going to be boring, or you have a boss you don't like, or people you work with.

  Nick Kroll

  Jobs, Careers, People

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. October 29, 2009.

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• I am actually really boring and I lead a quiet life. I love being at home, cooking for my boys, watching movies and I like nothing better than to go to bed early with a book.

  Patsy Kensit

  Book, Home, Boys

  "'I've had enough passion to last me a lifetime': Patsy Kensit on why she'll never marry again". Interview with Olivia Buxton, www.mirror.co.uk. April 21, 2012.

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• It can get a bit boring working on accents.

  Kelly Macdonald

  Accents, Bits

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of glory days.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Philosophy, Stories, Glory

  Song: Glory Days

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• Pure entertainment is not an egotistical lady singing boring songs onstage for two hours and people in tuxes clapping whether they like it or not. It's the real performers on the street who can hold people's attention and keep them from walking away.

  Andy Kaufman

  Song, Real, Two

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

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• Fast Food Nation was boring and aimed at yuppies, and yuppies don't eat fast food.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Yuppies, Fast Food Nation, Eating Fast Food

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2008.

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• No one wants to see a boring tube sock.

  Rob Kardashian

  Want, Sock, Tubes

  "Rob Kardashian’s Sock Line, Arthur George, Debuts At Neiman Marcus, Hurts Our Eyes" by Jessica Misener, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2012.

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• You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise.

  Lorrie Moore

  Feels, Persons, Knows

  "Moore's better blues". www.cnn.com.

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• I'm really kind of boring - I'd rather go to bed early and get up early because I really value my time off, my time away from work.

  Mandy Moore

  Up Early, Bed, Kind

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