Bored Quotes - Page 38

• I don't write non-fiction because I get bored. Some of my writing is autobiographical, but not the way readers imagine. I use my memory of settings, events and people. I weave history into my stories, but my narratives are made up.

  Sefi Atta

  Memories, Writing, People

  Source: www.percontra.net

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• I always write too long in the beginning, then it is a matter of going through it over and over again on subsequent drafts, looking for anything that slows down the narrative. It can be hard, cutting out parts I love, but I try to make the book as tight as possible so that the reader doesn't get bored.

  Chevy Stevens

  Book, Writing, Cutting

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• The most dangerous thing is a bored teenager. They have the stigma of being Indigenous, Aboriginal, and all the trappings that come with it. The connection does come a lot more from those kids, desert or not. They're stepping out into the world.

  Warwick Thornton

  Teenager, Kids, Connections

  Source: aboriginalartandculture.wordpress.com

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• When you get questions that annoy you the art is answering them differently. If you're bored with it, then everyone will be bored with it.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Art, Annoying, Ifs

  "Don Hertzfeldt’s Animated Short “It’s Such A Beautiful Day” Screens At IFC". Interview with Kathleen Massara, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2012.

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• There's a kind of edge to what you're doing, the kind of leading edge of what you're doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. "I've pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can't I'm just fed up with that. Let's do something else."And you always think "Oh my God I've never done anything at all like that before." But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they'll say, "Oh, yeah that's typical Eno.

  Brian Eno

  Thinking, Retrospect, Outsiders

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• If a film or any piece of work doesn't entertain, it fails - and that is using the word entertain literally, meaning it holds you there and you become absorbed by it so that you don't walk away and get bored and so on.

  Mike Leigh

  Pieces, Film, Failing

  "Big Think Interview With Mike Leigh". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• When you have to worry about paying the rent, you're never bored. You're just happy to have that job. But once you don't have to worry and reach the point where it's no longer about the money, you're able to look at other opportunities outside of your comfort zone.

  Martin Short

  Jobs, Opportunity, Worry

  Source: deadline.com

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• I'd love to see us get to a point where you can make a movie and not worry about the limits of the violence. Then I think they'd get so violent that people would get bored of it.

  Eli Roth

  Thinking, People, Worry

  Source: deadline.com

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• I worked in Bhs, but I was only there for a couple of weeks before I got fired because I needed the Saturday off to go to drama club. I was useless - I was so bored. There was nothing to do, so I'd go and do a circuit of the store, throwing jumpers on the floor, then go and pick them up. It wasn't rock 'n' roll rebellion, it was just to look busy. They tried to teach me how to work the till and I'm useless with numbers, so I was making it all up as I went along. I must have lost them tons of money.

  Joanna Page

  Couple, Drama, Numbers

  "Within minutes of meeting James Corden, you'll want to sleep with him". The MIRROR Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. June 13, 2008.

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• Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view. Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry.

  Ernst Haas

  Taken, Reality, Views

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• People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilisation; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.

  Kenneth Clark

  Boredom, Long, People

  Kenneth Clark (2015). “Civilisation”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• Stress is not the spice of life any more than arsenic is. And without it, you won't feel bored.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Stress, Arsenic, Spices

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• Writing can be wonderful therapy, and cheap at the price. At the very least, you eventually get bored by thinking about anxious topics and move on.

  Ralph Keyes

  Moving, Writing, Thinking

  Ralph Keyes (2003). “The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear”, p.91, Macmillan

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• The worst sin, the ultimate sin for me, in anything, is to be bored.

  Ted Turner

  Boredom, Sin, Worst

  Ted Turner, Janet Lowe (1999). “Ted Turner speaks: insight from the world's greatest maverick”, Wiley

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

  Lord Hailsham

  Boredom, Boring, Ashamed

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• I'm not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there's going to be this number of seasons, and I know exactly what's going to happen. I would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.

  Alan Ball

  Journey, Numbers, Would Be

  Interview with Scott Tobias, tv.avclub.com. September 7, 2008.

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• I'm kinda tired. I was up all night trying to round off infinity. Then I got bored and went out and painted passing lines on curved roads.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Tired, Humor

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• Nobody wants to know what I'm doing 24 hours a day, they'd be painfully bored, trust me. At the same time, if I'm doing something interesting or funny, I like being able to share that with my fans.

  Josh Duhamel

  Interesting, Fans, Want

  "Josh Duhamel: It Doesn't Take Much To Make Me Cry". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. January 14, 2013.

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• It's challenging and interesting for me to work on projects that are unique and unconventional. I'm so bored with seeing the same recycled material.

  Nina Dobrev

  Unique, Interesting, Challenges

  "The Final Girls" Star Nina Dobrev Talks the Surprising Horror Film, "Vampire Diaries", and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 9, 2015.

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• And when you're with a great crew like we had, it becomes a thrilling, again, collaboration, which is to me one of the great aspects of the process that you go through. I find myself at this point in my career, getting potentially, incredibly bored if I stand around a lot, so that's why I really like the pace of television.

  Glenn Close

  Careers, Collaboration, Pace

  "Glenn Close Embraces Damages". Interview with Evan Jacobs, www.movieweb.com. October 24, 2007.

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• I think I was really bored at school. I was quietly clock watching for years. I went to 10 schools because my dad was in the Army and we moved around a lot.

  Ridley Scott

  Dad, School, Army

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I like to be around entertaining people. Even if they're bored, and you're in a convalescent home, there's something entertaining about that, in a way.

  Amy Sedaris

  Home, People, Way

  Interview with David Wolinsky, tv.avclub.com. May 6, 2008.

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• I think I do have a sort of terrible propensity for boredom and for being bored, even though I am absolutely of the opinion that one shouldn't be bored and that there is no excuse for it and that it is a personal failing.

  Geoff Dyer

  Thinking, Boredom, Opinion

  "Geoff Dyer, Journey Man". Interview with Lucas Bscher, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 28, 2012.

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• People say, "Why is it that you love to act?" And you want to say, "Well, most of acting is sitting in your trailer, either bored or worried about the scene coming up." A lot of it is about things you don't really like, so it's a wonder why acting is such a huge draw, why everyone loves it so much.

  Anjelica Huston

  People, Acting, Sitting

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 30, 2009.

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• Every night I get up on stage, I love it. I never get like, 'Oh, I'm bored, I want to go home.' I never, ever get like that.

  Zakk Wylde

  Home, Night, Want

  Source: www.guitarmessenger.com

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