Bored Quotes - Page 12

• I love travel because you may be uncomfortable, hungry, hot and sweaty, cold and shivering…but damn it, you will never be bored.

  Tony Wheeler

  Hot, May, Cold

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• We have to face the fact that most men and women out there are more stale than they know, more bored than they care to admit.

  John W. Gardner

  Men, Care, Faces

  "Self-Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative Society". Book by John W. Gardner, 1964.

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• I'm taking probably the biggest risk of my career in playing the part in Filth. If you stop taking risks, then you get bored, or you just keep playing the same part, over and over again. Eventually audiences get bored of that, as well.

  James McAvoy

  Careers, Risk, Filth

  Source: collider.com

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• I was four or five, and my mother gave me a big black tablet, because I kept complaining that I was bored. She said, "Then write something. Then you can read it." In fact, I had just learned to read, so this was a thrilling kind of moment. The idea that I could write something - and then read it!

  Joan Didion

  Mother, Writing, Ideas

  Interview with Sheila Heti, www.believermag.com. December 2011.

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• Whenever I'm done with an album cycle, I still wanna write music. If I'm bored when I'm at home, which never happens, my first instinct is to go to the piano and bang something out.

  Avril Lavigne

  Home, Writing, Piano

  "Avril Lavigne Chats With Us About Her New Album (Out Now!) and Her Obsessions". Interview with Mickey Woods, www.glamour.com. November 6, 2013.

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• I get tired of the same albums, the same look and singing the same songs. When I get bored I paint, I plant trees and just do something different. I get far away from singing.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Tired, Tree

  "Yes! Jason Mraz returns to his 'coffeehouse performer' roots". Interview with Mike Nunez, www.floridatoday.com. February 11, 2015.

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• I started as a director, but I was too bored with actors. I preferred to act.

  Peter Stormare

  Directors, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• Whenever I get distracted or bored, my eyes wander over to that chalkboard and I read the words. Some of them grow on me, and others annoy me. I attack the latter with eraser and chalk, and keep nudging at them until I like the way they look and sound. Others never make the cut at all and simply get erased. Perhaps one day I will sell these on eBay to RPG players who need names for characters or alien races.

  Neal Stephenson

  Character, Eye, Cutting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I try to make films where the audience forgets the filmmaking and gets engrossed in the story as it unfolds. I don't want them to ever feel bored, or that they're being told what to think, or to feel depressed. I don't like films about victims - I want to celebrate brave survivors like Brenda and the wonderful women in the film.

  Kim Longinotto

  Thinking, Brave, Trying

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In Ireland every place you visit and every person you meet has a story. And they love to tell you their stories. Everyone is interested in everything; in a land of storytellers, you will never be bored.

  Maeve Binchy

  Land, Stories, Storyteller

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• I'm sick of over-trained heroes. I'm really bored with that. Guys that are just ripped to shreds and full of skills. That's boring me. Give me the mechanic that picks up a weapon. Now I'm interested. That's my hero.

  Bruce Campbell

  Hero, Skills, Giving

  Interview with Nerdlocker, moviepilot.com. November 9, 2015.

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• For me, when I see movies where I kind of know who the characters are and what the situation is, I get bored. To me, it's, "How do I tell a story that will keep the audience engaged?" A great story does that: it's not exactly what you expect.

  Richard Shepard

  Character, Doe, Stories

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• I don't draw every day. I tend to draw intensely during certain periods of time. I draw to amuse myself on occasion, when I am bored and drawing is the only fun to be had.

  David Shrigley

  Fun, Drawing, Periods

  Interview with Jason Polan, believermag.com. October 1, 2011.

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• I guess when I'm frightened or in pain or maybe very bored I've tried to hold myself together by imposing a narrative order on the experience as it happens.

  Ben Lerner

  Pain, Order, Together

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I love the water more than anything. I'm not very good at sunbathing - I get really bored. I love swimming and I love being like a fish and getting in the sea and just - I don't know, it feels right.

  Beth Orton

  Swimming, Love Is, Sea

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.

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• Secularism produces a bored soul

  Dennis Prager

  Soul, Produce, Secularism

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• Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

  Bill Gates

  Teaching, Skills, Different

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• ...boredom is all about perception. It's a self-diagnosis, plain and simple. If you don't realize you're bored, you're not.

  Susan Maushart

  Simple, Self, Perception

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• I've never been interested in the convention of dialogue that facilitates narrative-it's always sort of bored me. I find myself zoning out just listening to cadences of voices and tonality and this sort of thing.

  Rick Alverson

  Voice, Listening, Narrative

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• You get bored if you do the same thing too much.

  Shawn Ashmore

  Too Much, Ifs

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

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• I think it's necessary to let kids get bored once in a while-that's house they learn to be creative.

  Kim Raver

  Kids, Thinking, House

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• People are afraid of immortality because they believe they won't find something to do and will get bored! What to do if we become immortal? We can just walk! It is better than dying!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Believe, People, Dying

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• A beautiful road is a beautiful friend; you never get bored with it!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful

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• A man with a great curiosity will never get bored even if he lives millions years!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Years, Curiosity

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• For each human being there is an optimum ratio between change and stasis. Too little change, he grows bored. Too little stability, he panics and loses his ability to adapt. One who marries six times in ten years won't change jobs. One who moves often to serve his company will maintain a stable marriage. A woman chained to one home and family may redecorate frantically or take a lover or go to many costume parties.

  Larry Niven

  Jobs, Party, Moving

  Larry Niven, John Brunner, Jack Vance (1973). “Three trips in time and space: original novellas of science fiction”

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