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Source: Signposts in a Strange Land

“Many models do yoga, but I find it boring. Id rather be outdoors having fun.”

“Talk to them about things they don't know. Try to give them an inferiority complex. If the actress is beautiful, screw her. If she isn't, present her with a valuable painting she will not understand. If they insist on being boring, kick their asses or twist their noses. And that's about all there is to it.”

Ifs Knows Giving Trying Beautiful Painting Complexes Boring Valuable Actresses Ass Noses Kicks Screws Twists Inferiority Inferiority Complex

Author:John Huston

“I find it difficult to watch myself... I find it boring.”

Difficult Watches Boring

Author:Morgan Freeman

“To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and witty And to be without is to be ugly and boring and stupid and useless.”

Beautiful Money Honest Stupid Witty Ugly Boring Useless Virtuous

Book:The play as theater

Source: The play as theater

“Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns to mud. I am instantly the most boring person you've ever met.”

Mind Persons Turns Asks Fun Creative Mets Details Boring Ask Me Be Creative Mud Boring Person

Author:Melissa Bank

“The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels to the horrible squareness of our institutions, the idiocy of power, the debasement of sexual instincts, and the failure of writers to be alienated enough. The poems and novels of these same rebellious spirits, and their theoretical statements, are grimy and gritty and very boring too, besides being nonsensical, and it is evident by now that polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art either.”

Source: There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction

“People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become.”

People World Years Society Safe Boring Organized Choke

Book:Choke: A Novel

Source: Choke: A Novel

“Nothing can ever be a rule in drama, because then you're saying certain things won't ever happen, and that would be very boring.”

Happens Would Be Certain Drama Boring

Author:Steven Moffat

“A few years ago, Bill Gates was boasting that we'll soon have sensors which will turn on the music that we like or show on the walls the paintings we like when we walk into a room. How boring! The hell with our preexisting likes; let's expand ourselves intellectually.”

Years Shows Turns Walks Rooms Hell Painting Wall Years Ago Bills Boring Likes Gates Boast Turn-on Sensors

Author:Denis Dutton

“I've got no dark secrets, I wasn't beaten up, my parents were kind to me and there was a low crime rate where we lived. Maybe that's where the comedy comes from, as some sort of reaction to the safe, boring suburbs.”

Kind Parent Dark Secret Comedy Crime Safe Lows Rate Boring Reactions Beaten Suburbs Crime Rates Dark Secrets

Author:Will Ferrell

“All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.”

People Want Kind Bills Boring Als Gore Skirts Carols

Author:Carol Moseley Braun

“For most people, life would be boring without meaningful work.”

People Would Be Boring Meaningful Meaningful Work

Author:Tim Ferriss

“The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after.”

Soul Planets Boring

Author:J. G. Ballard

“Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.”

Matter Tragedy Caught Boring Caress

Book:The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

“Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.”

Ifs Play Would Be Games Work Boring

Book:Les Belles Images

Source: Les Belles Images

“It's one thing to tolerate a boring marriage; a boring affair does not make sense.”

Doe One Thing Affair Boring Make Sense Tolerate

Author:Jane Wagner

“I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.”

Long Praise Critics Boring Movie Critic

Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition

Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition

“It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don't forget things like that.”

People Names Forget Boring Likes Like Me Drunk Dylan Dropping Name Dropping

Author:Jeffrey Bernard

“Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.”

Use Painting Photograph Boring Painter Copies

Author:Duane Michals

“I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.”

Belief Boring

Author:A. N. Wilson

“I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.”

Trying Play School Parent Class Teacher Failing High School University Boring Attending School Teachers Alberta High School Teachers Canadian History

Author:Nathan Fillion

“Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.”

Ifs Audience Mines Blue Boring Awful Brown Pairs Articles Denim Corduroy

Author:Ian Anderson

“I'm more boring and more conservative.”

Conservative Boring

Author:John Malkovich

“Fate does not invite ugly boring people to save the world; and if you do try to save the world (without being beautiful, strong, clever, or wise), you will soon die pointlessly and how much adventure is there in that?”

People Ifs World Trying Doe Beautiful Dies Strong Wise Fate Adventure Hero Ugly Boring Clever Invites Save The World Being Beautiful

Book:Ascending

Source: Ascending

“But I would like to reach the point where I could cut up an illustrated magazine at random and see to it that the parts would each become a painting. I cannot properly explain it right now. Already now I am searching for the most boring and irrelevant photo material that I can find. And I would like to get to the point soon where this determined irrelevance could be retained, in favor of something that would be covered up otherwise by artifice.”

I Can Would Be Cutting Painting Materials Right Now Photography Boring Determined Favors Magazines Covered Irrelevant Artifice Irrelevance Covered Up

Author:Gerhard Richter

“What attracted me about my mirrors was the idea of having nothing manipulated in them. A piece of bought mirror. Just hung there, without any addition, to operate immediately and directly. Even at the risk of being boring. Mere demonstration. The mirrors, and even more the Panes of Glass, were also certainly directed against Duchamp, against his Large Glass.”

Art Ideas Pieces Risk Painting Mirrors Mere Glasses Boring Hung Demonstration

Book:Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

“You wonder if God doesn't have an answering machine to screen out the prayers of the venal and the boring? And in which category has he placed you?”

Ifs God Prayer Wonder Humorous Machines Phones Boring Screens Categories Telephones Answering Machines

Book:Half Asleep In Frog Pyjamas

Source: Half Asleep In Frog Pyjamas

“Sex in the nineties is boring. The problem is that it has gone from an active act to a spectator sport. We watch people make love on television and in films. We call 900 numbers to hear what someone would do to us if they weren't sitting in a boiler room of other dirty talkers reading from a prepared script.”

People Ifs Problem Funny Film Reading Sex Sports Rooms Numbers Watches Gone Television Humorous Sitting Prepared Scripts Boring Active Dirty Making Love Spectators Talkers Boiler Boiler Room

Author:Erma Bombeck

“I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm on as myself.”

Giving Feels I Can Helping Actors Boring Interviews Notorious

Author:Rock Hudson

“Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.”

Wanted Found Fun Interesting Months Fame Six Boring Six Months Banquets

Author:Jack Gilbert

“All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches.”

Book Greatness Boring Portions Great Book

Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same. We've obviously made some changes. When we started, it was all about food, clothing and shelter. Now we watch 'Top Chef', 'Project Runway', and 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.”

People Made Stills Home Watches Havens Changed Projects Boring Extremes Clothings Shelter Chef Runway Makeovers Project Runway

Author:Colin Hay

“Just so you know, I'm a really boring interview. I hate doing them.”

Knows Hate I Hate Boring Interviews

Author:Chris O'Donnell

“In my experience, take the Holy Spirit out of the equation of your life and it spells boring. Add it into the equation of your life and you never know where you are going to go, what you are going to do, or who you are going to meet.”

Knows Spirit Holy Who You Are Add Boring Holy Spirit Where You Are Spells Equations Where You Are Going

Author:Mark Batterson

“The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.”

Creating Boring

Author:Samantha Barks

“An action film can have too much action; picture an equaliser on a stereo, with all the knobs pegged at 10. It becomes a cacophony and is, ultimately, quite boring.”

Action Film Too Much Boring Action Films Knobs Cacophony

Author:Shane Black

“Soulja Boy is on his dance, down south, young, 18-year-old, comedic swag. It's really just each person's personality; if every rapper had the same swag, it would be kind of boring.”

Ifs Years Kind Persons Would Be Young Boys Personality South Boring Be Kind Rapper Comedic Swag

Author:Soulja Boy

“It would be terribly boring to be earnest.”

Would Be Boring Earnest

Author:Adrien Brody

“It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family.”

Writing Trying Years Long Jobs Mother Lines Novel Five Army Boring Arrogance Five Years Why Not Long Lines Youthful Arrogance

Author:Antony Beevor

“On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in.”

Kind I Can Interesting Personality Reflection Exciting Boring Robots

Author:Bill Budge

“I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions.”

Knows Littles Felt Rooms Stage Creating Productions Boring Fascinating Charging Boring Things

Author:Bob Balaban

“The showbiz world has to be manipulated to make it more interesting because most people's lives are boring.”

People World Interesting Boring Showbiz

Author:James Blunt

“I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.”

Ifs Trying Drink Boring Smoke Vitamins Balconies So Boring Insufferable

Author:Kate Beckinsale

“When I have to go to Cannes, that is boring to me.”

Boring Cannes

Author:Monica Bellucci

“Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.”

Trying Levels Quality Boring Emulate Animator Mannerisms

Author:Ralph Bakshi

“What do I think of L.A.? It's boring, with some amazing nuggets. Like there are some parts of it that are great, but by and large I think it's quite boring.”

Thinking Boring Nuggets

Author:Jemaine Clement

“As an actor, I don't really think you find yourself. I mean, once you find yourself, I think it becomes boring and you become set in your ways. I think, as an actor I think it's not a bad thing but more of a gift. It's something you're always doing as an actor. You're adjusting constantly.”

Thinking Way Mean Actors Boring Finding Yourself Bad Things Adjusting

Author:Justin Chon

“I coined this term 'freedom thru limitation' back in the '90s because I was sick of art being treated like pop, because of this boring 'anything can be art' theory.”

Art Term Theory Art Is Sick Boring Pops Treated Limitation

Author:Billy Childish

“Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.”

Years Made Action Boring Action Movie

Author:Asia Argento

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