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• The truth was that I'd been spending years running away from myself. I hid myself in drama, silliness, stupidity, banality. So afraid to grow up. So afraid to involve myself in relationships where I might be expected to give the same love I got - instead of sixth-grade shenanigans. I bored myself with all the when I grow up nonsense, but I was worried it would never happen even as I longed for it.

  Megan Crane

  Running, Growing Up, Drama

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• I cannot stand superheroes. I do not understand any of its appeal. It has just bored me to death since I was a little kid.

  Roz Chast

  Kids, Superhero, Littles

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• We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, Vanity, Boredom

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• The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Talking, Boredom, Together

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• I was never much of a reader when I was a boy. Books bored me. I liked action. But I spent a lot of time thinking about things. I'd imagine all kinds of situations and how I would handle them.

  Ray Kroc

  Book, Boys, Thinking

  Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.16, St. Martin's Griffin

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• The home was a school. Farm and cabin households, though bookless save for the Family Bible and The Sacred Harp, taught the girls to spin, weave, quilt, cook, sew, and mind their manners; the boys to wield gun, ax, hammer and saw, to ride, plow, sow and reap, and to be men. Nobody need ever be bored. Amusement did not have to be bought.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Girl, Quilts, War

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• I was bored at school and bored in a lot of the kitchens. It seemed like all I was doing was putting things into saute pans.

  Homaro Cantu

  School, Kitchen

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• Marijuana does not lead to harder drugs. People will get bored of the pot and move on down the line to stronger drugs to get the high they need. They either stay with pot or quit.

  Steven Machat

  Moving, Marijuana, People

  "A Cannabis Crusader Brings the Fight for Legal Weed to America’s Heartland". Interview with Stacey Chillemi, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2016.

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• Just because I am increasingly bored by sabermetric arcana doesn't mean anyone else has to be; it remains good for people who like that sort of thing.

  John Thorn

  Mean, People, Remains

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I have no ear for music. When I attend a concert, I endeavor gamely to follow the sequence and relationship of sounds but cannot keep it up for more than a few minutes. Visual impressions, reflections of hands in lacquered wood, a diligent bald spot over a fiddle, take over, and soon I am bored beyond measure by the motions of the musicians.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Reflection, Hands, Musician

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• Most songs have bridges in them, to distract listeners from the main verses of a song so they don't get bored. My songs don't have a lot of bridges because lyric poetry never had them.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Lyric Poetry, Bridges

  "Bob Dylan: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• I get bored very easily, so I love doing different things, changing, doing a job for a month and then doing another one for six months and then moving into a different group of people. I love being able to stop. That's one of the greatest benefits we have in our profession.

  Jeremy Irons

  Jobs, Moving, Love Is

  "Actor Jeremy Irons". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. September 7, 2012.

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• I like horror, but I tend to like it as seasoning. I'd get very bored if I was told I had to write a horror novel. I'd love to write a novel with horror elements, but too much, and it doesn't taste of anything else.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Elements, Too Much

  "Master Shaper". Interview with David Carroll, www.tabula-rasa.info. 1997.

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• [To become a poet] The most important thing is to pay attention. The next would probably be to read; it's so important to pay attention. It keeps you from being bored, and I might add it keeps you from being boorish.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Important, Next, Add

  Interview with Scholastic students, www.scholastic.com. 2002.

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• I tell people that I'm not necessarily any good, it's just that there is nobody like me. I just promise you will not be bored.

  Andy Andrews

  People, Promise, Nobody Likes Me

  "Andy Andrews Interview: Modern Day Will Rogers Details His Latest Novel, 'The Noticer'". Interview with Melissa Parker, smashinginterviews.com. November 19, 2013.

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• I always wanted to give people the more exciting version of what I think a comedian should be - because I didn't grow up with comics, I grew up with rock 'n' roll. And when I saw a lot of comics, no matter how good they might have been material-wise, I would get a little bored with them after 10 minutes, only because I feel comedians don't really know performance.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Wise, Growing Up, Thinking

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I'll never be bored of it.

  Amy Winehouse

  Song, Writing, Knows

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• With each film, i need an artistic challenge so I don't get bored! I like to tackle challenges.

  Roman Polanski

  Challenges, Needs, Artistic

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling bored and alienated. That's because we lost contact with the important things in life like work that you enjoy, or the garden, nature, your family and friends.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Writing, Garden, Things In Life

  "How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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• If I wanted to be bored by 6,000 pages of unreadable dreck, I'd read War and Peace four times.

  Lewis Black

  Funny, War, Humor

  "Lewis Black: Taxed Beyond Belief". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• I don't know how long i could be a vet before i got bored and started shagging stuff.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, Long

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• I love to compete. I competed in 40-50 matches internationally all across the world. I'm young, I'm healthy, and I love to compete. If I don't compete, I'll get bored.

  Henry Cejudo

  Healthy, World, Young

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• You have to leave the window open for better classes to come along as you go. You can't grow too proud of your script. You have to let the thing shape itself. It guarantees the best classes will always be used and it also keeps you from going braindead. If you grow bored and uninspired working on something, the audience will be able to tell.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Guarantees, Shapes, Proud

  Source: www.notcoming.com

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• The job has left me with a healthy disregard for what you might call Public Life. I have no desire now to go to receptions, to be seen at gatherings of the great and the good, to stand and be bored to death by men in grey suits.

  Michael Longley

  Jobs, Men, Healthy

  Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk

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• I was trained as a political scientist and the profession bores me, to be frank. I am truly bored by mainstream work in my discipline, which strikes me as a kind of medieval scholasticism of a special kind.

  James C. Scott

  Discipline, Political, Special

  Source: www.gastronomica.org

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