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“You don't have ideas when you're sitting in that sort of sterile little place, and you're not around people. The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone. I just need that dynamic of other people around me to get my work done.”

People Needs Littles Ideas Done Character Scene Sitting Boring Work Done

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“It's so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can't believe how insufferably boring it is. Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.”

People Believe Used Waiting Lines Boring Loops Waiting Around

Author:Al Pacino

“Some fighter’s waist a lot of their energy. Wait for your opportunity and when it comes, avail yourself of it. The idea of boring in and throwing punches helter skelter without reason doesn’t amount to a row of pins. Every time you miss a swing it is worse than being hit.”

Ideas Reason Opportunity Energy Waiting Missing Amount Boring Fighter Throwing Swings Pins Throwing Punches

Author:Jack Johnson

“Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.”

Rocks Down And Clubs Boring Supposed To Be Mentality Punk Punk Rock

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“I realized that my book readings were boring me. I was going to go up there and read a passage and sleepwalk through the whole event and I needed to make it more interesting. I wanted to be running and jumping and do something so that the event would be so exciting. I had to trick myself into having fun every time.”

Book Whole Would Be Running Wanted Reading Fun Interesting Events Needed Exciting Boring I Realized Tricks Having Fun Passages Jumping Book Reading

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.”

Reality Beautiful Evil Boring Monotonous

Author:Simone Weil

“When it comes to rock music, I'm not much of a player, but I do have entry-level chops. I'm more knowledgeable as a listener, and Revival gave me a way to write about rock and roll without being preachy or boring.”

Way Writing Levels Player Rocks Boring Listeners Rock And Roll Revival Entry Rock Music Knowledgeable

Author:Stephen King

“It's always interesting to play people different from yourself, it would be boring for me to play myself.”

People Different Play Would Be Interesting Boring

Author:Sydney Pollack

“There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, "Le jeu et les moi." It's impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound. It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.”

Way Beautiful Song Sound Nice Impossible Subjects Boring Lovely Contradiction Translate Jane Very Nice

Author:Agnes Varda

“Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you've blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that... wrll, it's because the national anthem is boring.”

Country States Humor Funny Values Numbers Terrible Rate Boring Pounds Unemployment Anthem National Anthem Unemployment Rate

Author:Billy Connolly

“Any medium can only live up to the strengths of the people working in it. If it's been used to tell bad or boring stories, it's not a problem with comics; it's a problem with the writers of those comics.”

People Ifs Stories Problem Used Boring Mediums

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.”

Answers Interesting Boring Ugliness

Author:Rem Koolhaas

“That's why I love improvisational theater so much - you do it [scene] once and then it's done. You don't get bogged down with a lot of preplanning and repetition. If I do something and it gets a laugh, I don't want to do it again. Why bother? I'm just repeating myself. It's boring.”

Ifs Want Done Laughing Scene Theater Boring Bother Repetition Why Bother

Author:Amy Sedaris

“I have no ideals. I have no will that the world should be any better or worse or anything... Because I know that for every genius there exists a robbing murderer. There is nothing to do about that. The world is such that if you want to find the intensity within the genuine, you will at the same time find the criminals around the nearest corner. And if you eliminate that genetic quality in the human being, then everyone will become very inactive and very boring, but on the other hand we get rid of criminality.”

Ifs Knows World Want Should Humans Hands Human Beings Quality Genius Ideals Corners Boring Criminals Genuine Intensity Murderer Robbing Criminality

Author:Odd Nerdrum

“Advertising agencies don't care about a better world in the end. They are servants of their client: what the client wants is what they get. Their only problem is to not lose the budget. I think its a shame because advertising is so boring and it can be so interesting. They should ask more artists to make interesting campaigns.”

Thinking World Want Should Ends Problem Care Artist Asks Loses Interesting Shame Don't Care Boring Campaigns Advertising Budgets Servant Agency Clients Advertising Agencies So Boring

Author:Oliviero Toscani

“The myth of objectivity made nonfiction increasingly unread. In feature articles, we could be playful in the opening and clever in the end but in the middle it was back to the boring basics.”

Made Ends Middle Boring Myth Clever Opening Features Articles Nonfiction Objectivity Basics

Author:Lee Gutkind

“Being an assistant in a computer lab was the worst job I ever had. It was boring. That was when I was in college.”

Jobs Worst College Computer Boring Assistants Labs

Author:Chris Carmack

“There might be lots of boring thoughts coming from someone else, but the way they come across, they would be mind blowing because they would come in such a way so foreign to me. I think I would mostly be surprised, but alarmed also. There will be something within each of us, despite our differences, in thought processes to connect us.”

Thinking Way Mind Might Would Be Process Differences Boring Despite Mind Blowing Thought Process

Author:Matthew Carter

“I have a boyfriend who knows how to settle me. He puts his hand on my chest and tells me boring stories. On one of our first nights together I woke up apologizing for my snoring and he pulled out two earplugs he had worn to bed so he could hear what I was saying.”

Knows Firsts Two Stories Hands Together Night Know How Bed Boring Settling Chests Worn Apologizing Snoring

Book:Yes Please

Source: Yes Please

“Different drinks have different metaphorical weight. Wine's heady, gin is poisonous, vodka's cold, and beer is plain boring. In real life, I'm a big fan of boxed white wine, much to the dismay of my more refined friends.”

Different Real Bigs White Fans Cold Drink Weight Wine Boring Real Life Beer Refined Poisonous Gin Vodka Metaphorical Dismay White Wine

Author:Cate Marvin

“While I've lived in cities for most of my adult life, I really prefer the quiet, boring, mundanity of the country. It's the best place for me to work, think, and invent.”

Thinking Country Cities Quiet Adults Boring Best Place

Author:Jacob Hashimoto

“Usually horror in your personal life can translate into some good music. Sometimes. Sometimes it can be really maudlin and boring, and kind of personal.”

Kind Sometimes Horror Boring Translate Personal Life

Author:Bob Schneider

“You don't see what's gone before. A lot of that can be long, long boring hours in the gym, long, long hours on the track or, for the likes of Paula Radcliffe, long hours out on the road in the rain running and running.”

Long Running Hours Gone Rain Track Boring Likes Gym Long Hours

Author:Jill Douglas

“Very good training to just be a person is growing up in Canada. People say a lot of things about Canada, like that it's boring, but if you look around the world, you can praise boring. It's a very civilized place to grow up. I'm very proud of it.”

People Ifs World Looks Persons Grows Growing Up Growing Proud Training Praise Very Good Boring Around The World Canada Civilized

Author:Mike Myers

“I live the most boring life, away from what you see me on camera doing. The other 300 days out of the year [not touring], I'm just the most normal person in the universe. I'm a wife. I'm a mother to my doggies. I'm a maid, and I clean the house. I'm pretty boring.”

Years Persons Mother Universe House Wife Normal Cameras Clean Boring Touring Maids Boring Life

Author:Carrie Underwood

“I'm a bit obsessive. I've just bought this Wi-Fi radio, which can pick up 7,500 stations from all over the world. I'm boring my wife to death with it. I've got a thing about technology, so I've got four sat-nav systems and loads of gadgets, including a 100% accurate watch. Any new development and I'm there buying it. My best trait is that I'm happy and optimistic.”

World Bits Watches Technology Four Wife Development Picks Including Radio Boring My Wife Optimistic Sat Buying Stations Traits Accurate Load Obsessive Gadgets

Author:Tony Blackburn

“Sometimes when my fans come up to me, they think it's going to be entertaining, like I'm going to tell jokes or do bits, and then instead of that I end up talking about really mundane things with my fans, and then they're kind of like, "This is boring. I want to go talk to somebody else." I think I bore my fans to death by over-talking to them.”

Thinking Want Kind Ends Sometimes Bits Talking Fans Jokes Come Up Boring Entertaining Bores Mundane

Author:Mike Birbiglia

“I think the reason why I'm so alluring to networks is because on the surface I'm like a quintessential relatable, boring white guy. A great many sitcoms have been anchored by a boring white guy, so I feel like what they want to mine from me are my more generic qualities.”

Thinking Want Feels Has Beens Reason Guy White Quality Mines Boring Surface Reason Why Great Men Relatable Sitcom Generic Alluring White Guys Quintessential

Author:Mike Birbiglia

“I don't feel one could even remotely touch the idea of intimidating others, but because I've understood the other side of the experience, I will occasionally, if I smell that could even be in the air for a few minutes, say to the director, "Please, you must tell me anything you want. Please say all the things you think might be terribly hurtful like, 'That was boring.'"”

Ifs Thinking Want Feels Ideas Might Sides Air Minutes Please Directors Understood Boring Smell Intimidating Hurtful

Author:Kenneth Branagh

“The Christian life is anything but boring.”

Christian Life Is Leadership Church Boring Christian Life

Author:Johnny Hunt

“The way to become boring is to say everything.”

Way Silence Boring

Author:Voltaire

“As an organization grows and succeeds, it sows the seeds of its own demise by getting boring.”

Grows Business Succeed Organization Boring Seeds Demise

Author:Seth

“That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.”

Art Lying Boring Deceit Confusing Static Repetitive

Author:John Locke

“Being infinite, God is inexhaustibly interesting. It is therefore impossible that God be boring.”

Interesting Impossible Infinite Boring

Author:John Piper

“The gospel is the good news that the everlasting and ever-increasing joy of the never-boring, ever-satisfying Christ is ours freely and eternally by faith in the sin-forgiving death and hope-giving resurrection of Jesus Christ.”

Giving Joy Jesus Christ Sin News Jesus Christ Forgiving Boring Satisfying Resurrection Good News Everlasting Jesus Resurrection Resurrection Of Jesus Christ

Book:Taste and See: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life

Source: Taste and See: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life

“I find that each job that I do, the thing that gets me there is when I'm not smarter than it, when I don't know instantly how that thing is made. Because if I do, then it's boring. Or it would be simple.”

Ifs Knows Made Would Be Jobs Simple Boring Smarter

Author:Michelle Williams

“I began to learn a lot of chords and rhythms. It was a bit boring at the time but came in very handy later on.”

Bits Guitar Boring Rhythm Chords Handy

Author:Alvin Lee

“There's nothing more boring than actors talking about acting.”

Actors Acting Talking Boring

Author:James Caan

“I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Alive Boring Tedious

Author:Paul Auster

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

Ought Boring Bored Boredom Ashamed Being Bored

Author:Lord Hailsham

“Not for the first time Richard reflected that this age's vaunted 'communications industry' had chiefly provided people and nations with the means of frightening to death and simultaneously boring to extinction themselves and each other.”

People Firsts Mean Age Nations Communication Industry First Time Boring Frightening Extinction

Book:The wanderer

Source: The wanderer

“I don't want to go to the heaven that I learned about when I was a kid. To me, it seems boring.”

Want Seems Kids Heaven Boring

Author:Stephen King

“I did an interview where they were harping on and on about sensuality and sexuality... really, I have nothing to say about any of that stuff because it's so boring and I never think about it.”

Thinking Stuff Boring Sexuality Sensuality Interviews So Boring

Author:Scarlett Johansson

“The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.”

Life Life Is Fashion Dresses Boring Cute Fabulous Too Short Life Is Too Short Fashion Designer Life It Too Short Life Too Short Heiress Blending In

Author:Paris Hilton

“The boring people are the worst. I think it's obvious, I think people have always had phobias about flying for years even before 9/11 and everything like that. It just taps into that and it taps into who you are going to sit next to on the plane.”

People Thinking Years Next Worst Who You Are Obvious Boring Flying Planes Phobia

Author:Cillian Murphy

“My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet, unassuming music, and TV shows that win awards. In that way, I am an elitist snob. And proud of it.”

Way Play Shows Winning Sports Player Tvs Proud Taste Quiet Band All Things Boring Awards Tv Shows Documentaries Snob Elitist Scrabble Unassuming

Author:Michael Ian Black

“It is boring to have all the answers. Only political people have answers.”

People Political Answers Boring

Author:Michael Haneke

“I've always felt that dark lyrics with dark music is pretty useless. Maybe that's a strong statement - not useless, but for me, it's just boring.”

Strong Felt Dark Music Is Boring Statements Useless

Author:Andrew Bird

“I find it very strange doing voiceover stuff, because you find you have to enunciate and make stupid faces in order for the point to make sense, because it's playing against the deadpan Simpson face. If you're just speaking in the regular way you speak, it will sound really boring.”

Ifs Way Faces Order Speak Stuff Sound Stupid Strange Boring Make Sense

Author:Emily Blunt

“I just don't ever want to play the girlfriend. You know, the supporting character in the background who just sort of comes in and goes, "Oh, shucks." It's just a boring character.”

Knows Want Play Character Boring Backgrounds Girlfriend

Author:Kristen Bell

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