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• There's a theory out there that if you're in a public profession you're fair game. I couldn't disagree with that idea more. Especially with children - half the time they don't choose to be in that profession. For people to objectify other people's lives - kids or not - I find very tedious and tiresome. People who have a craft, that's their job. Their job isn't to create fodder for other people who are bored.

  Anna Chlumsky

  Children, Kids, People

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I am trying to change hip-hop music because I do feel there are places people can go with production and the structure of an album that they haven't gone yet. But, like I said, I don't have any delusions of grandeur. I just want to make music that doesn't make me bored.

  El-P

  People, Trying, Music Is

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow motion. It's so bourgeois. I get so bored.

  Marina Abramovic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There was - there still is - a big shortage of good Chinese-English literary translators. So for two years in London, I was stuck waiting, not writing, with several Chinese books I couldn't get translated. That's when I decided to write in English, since I had been living here and had decided to reconstruct my life here. Even if I wrote in broken English, it was better than getting bored and weary and bitter on the long queue of authors waiting to be translated by a stranger.

  Xiaolu Guo

  Book, Writing, Long

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I took four years of violin, but got bored of it - over the years, I've been ADD with instruments. The only two that I've really stayed true to are guitar and piano.

  Mister Lies

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've always liked elliptical writing, whether it's Kafka or Paula Fox, and I'm often bored by writers who explain too much. I think that becomes journalism. Mostly I don't try to explain to readers who somebody is - I just write about the somebody. I'm thinking through ideas. And I have the sense that, if you're reading this, you have some interest.

  Lynne Tillman

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with James Yeh, believermag.com. January 1, 2018.

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• Working with a manuscript with that kind of intimacy is kind of like taking a magnification mirror to your pores. Its horrifying but it shows just where the problems are. Of course, I do get bored of the words after a while. I take breaks from them so that we can breathe. And by the time I'm done with my umpteenth regurgitation, I hate the words. They become flavorless chewing gum. Like how really old gum gets once it starts disintegrating in your mouth. Gum that's lost its elasticity and feels like a sweater.

  Myriam Gurba

  Hate, Done, Kind

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• I'm pushing myself in other, slower directions. Some of the stuff that I'm writing is not necessarily so speedy; it's a different kind of intense that I'm going for now, a more focused intensity. It's good to look at what you've done and think, "What have I not done?" That's why so many artists that have longer careers do change, and sometimes very abruptly, because if you're not interested, how the hell is anybody else supposed to be? If you're bored, everyone else is going to be too.

  Christopher Paul Stelling

  Writing, Thinking, Artist

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• I have always been aware of different movements and directions in art. But, in general, I'm always bored by any kind of generalization when it comes to artists. I think that there are just single individuals, who are valuable, and they work outside of any group.

  Georg Baselitz

  Art, Thinking, Work Out

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• Work is making a living out of being bored.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Making A Living, Being Bored

  "Is Karl Lagerfeld Retiring?" by Julie Kosin, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 19, 2016.

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• I love going to work out now. It gets out aggression and my trainer really shakes it up so I don't get bored.

  Adriana Lima

  Work Out, Aggression, Going To Work

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• But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.

  Audre Lorde

  Hands, White, Racism

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• If you are not bored by life, and your primary motto is enthusiasm and if you like your friends, family around you, it all translates into your designs. That's what keeps the creativity alive.

  Christian Louboutin

  Creativity, Design, Alive

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• I box a lot, I spin and I surf. I try to mix it up. I obviously have to be in shape 24 hours and the gym can be super monotonous, so I just get outside and try to make it fun so my body doesn't get bored.

  Marisa Miller

  Fun, Trying, Body

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• I've realised that when I don't play people who are complex I get very, very bored, and then lazy, and end up being rubbish.

  Sienna Miller

  Play, People, Lazy

  "Sienna Miller: 'Whatever I say, I get myself into trouble'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2009.

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• I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Reality, Forever, Kind

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• If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Thinking, Awards, Two

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• You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, People, Creative

  "Haruki Murakami: 'I took a gamble and survived'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2011.

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• Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  People, Incentives, Pay

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• Texting is addicting. Once you get emotionally involved with constant outside stimulation assaulting your brain, it is hard to stop looking at your machine every two minutes. Without rapid fire words appearing on a screen, you feel bored, not part of the action.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Fire, Two, Brain

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• I like a good boy, but sometimes you get bored.

  Katy Perry

  Boys, Sometimes, Good Boy

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• I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Comedy, Satisfied, Feels

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• I just get bored easily. As I'm sure other people do too.

  Pink

  People

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• I don't like to get bored and don't like to repeat myself.

  Martha Plimpton

  Repeats

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• I am not bored at all. I am not bored in the least.

  Martha Plimpton

  "Q & A: Raising Hope’s Martha Plimpton on being a child actress, guest stars and Twitter". Interview with Lance Carter, www.dailyactor.com. September 27, 2011.

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