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• It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.

  Norm MacDonald

  Attitude, Way, Jokes

  "Norm Macdonald hits the road for sake of laughs". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. July 24, 2011.

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• Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating.

  Sol LeWitt

  Thinking, Doing You, Ends

  Interview with Saul Ostrow, bombmagazine.org. October 1, 2003.

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• Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.

  Johnny Knoxville

  Uranium Mining, Acting, Coal

  "The school of hard Knox" by J Rentilly, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2002.

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• Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

  Samuel Johnson

  Long, Boredom, Return

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• When you see a fashion show, you see those seven minutes of what was six months of tedious work of, you know, going up an inch and down an inch, changing it from one shade of red to another shade of red. So it's the same as any creative process. The result is what we see, but the process is really labor intensive and work.

  Marc Jacobs

  Fashion, Creative, Six Months

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• I find aspects of the industry tedious and hard to manage.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Aspect, Hard, Manage

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• Kind 'Guardian' readers have been forwarding me round robin Christmas newsletters for years now: lengthy missives full of perfect children, exotic holidays, talented pets and endless, tedious detail. The notes that accompanied them revealed they had inspired in the original recipients everything from mild irritation to absolute rage.

  Simon Hoggart

  Children, Holiday, Years

  "Glad tidings we bring ..." by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2004.

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• When stuck years ago in a job I hated, my only friend was the public bench. As the tedious mornings dragged on, how I would long for the lunch hour, when I would be able to escape the torture of the office and stroll over to the churchyard and into the comforting wooden embrace of one of its benches.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Morning, Jobs, Years

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. February 03, 2006.

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• I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously; I find that a very tedious attitude.

  Joan Collins

  Country, Attitude, Thinking

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• Michael Palin decided to give up on his considerable comedy talents to make those dreadfully tedious travel shows. Have you ever tried to watch one?

  John Cleese

  Travel, Giving Up, Watches

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• Most screen violence is tedious.

  Nick Cave

  Violence, Screens

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• It's so tedious that everyone must be defined.

  Steven Morrissey

  Defined

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• Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is.

  Max Muller

  Caring, Years, Progress

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that's another story.

  Susan Orlean

  Sports, Team, Believe

  "Football U." by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 7, 2011.

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• I am grateful for emphasis on reading the scriptures. I hope that for you this will become something far more enjoyable than a duty; that, rather, it will become a love affair with the word of God. I promise you that as you read, your minds will be enlightened and your spirits will be lifted. At first it may seem tedious, but that will change into a wondrous experience with thoughts and words of things divine. Gordon B. Hinckley

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Grateful, Reading, Promise

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• I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Book, Reading, Gentleman

  FaceBook post by Marilynne Robinson from Feb 15, 2012

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• Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Gossip, Political, Scandal

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.9, Oscar Wilde

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• Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom

  Charles Baudelaire

  Fate, Winter, Bored

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• When Josey woke up and saw the feathery frost on her windowpane, she smiled. Finally, it was cold enough to wear long coats and tights. It was cold enough for scarves and shirts worn in layers, like camouflage. It was cold enough for her lucky red cardigan, which she swore had a power of its own. She loved this time of year. Summer was tedious with the light dresses she pretended to be comfortable in while secretly sure she looked like a loaf of white bread wearing a belt. The cold was such a relief.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Summer, White, Light

  Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.1, Bantam

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• People are more open about seeking help these days. They recognise the fact that the alternative to having a shrink is that you bore your friends stupid. So I figured that I might as well give someone 100 bucks an hour to hear my woes. At least someone can make a living out of listening to my tedious problems.

  Hugh Laurie

  Stupid, People, Giving

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  Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Christian, Jesus, Confusing

  Corrie ten Boom (1974). “Tramp for the Lord: The Story that Begins Where The Hiding Place Ends”, p.63, CLC Publications

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• When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.

  John Steinbeck

  Wise, Jobs, Children

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• No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Hero, Men, World

  Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.115, New Directions Publishing

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• I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Reading, Government, Speech

  Pierre Elliott Trudeau, C. David Crenna (1987). “Lifting the Shadow of War”, McClelland & Stewart

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• I really enjoy my time off. If I'm going to go to work, it has to be something I really believe in, or else it's totally tedious.

  John C. Reilly

  Believe, Enjoy, Working It

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. September 15, 2004.

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