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• I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.

  Bernadette Devlin

  Horse, Silence, Bars

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• Here's what I've learned about raising boys... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. You let 'em get bored, they'll dismantle your house board by board.

  Kenny Rogers

  Boys, House, Boards

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• Keep the child within alive. A child never tires of hearing the birds sing, never gets bored looking at flowers.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Nature, Children, Flower

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• If you're alive, you can't be bored in San Francisco. If you're not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life......San Francisco is a world to explore. It is a place where the heart can go on a delightful adventure. It is a city in which the spirit can know refreshment every day.

  William Saroyan

  Heart, Adventure, Cities

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• Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn't sustain my interest.

  Aimee Bender

  Struggle, Writing, Character

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• No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the resurrection and the life.

  Joyce Cary

  Doubt, Treasure, Resurrection

  Joyce Cary (1958). “First trilogy: Herself surprised: To be a pilgrim. The horse's mouth”

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• I'm not someone who can lie on a beach and do nothing. I am not sure what you are supposed to do, so I get bored. I prefer to have a purpose, such as going to Alaska to see orca whales.

  Miranda Richardson

  Beach, Lying, Alaska

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• I get bored in Hollywood.

  Rosie Perez

  Hollywood

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• I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.

  Wim Wenders

  Thinking, Might, Juxtaposition

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• I've purposely stayed away from reading much about postmodern theory, and most everything I have read just bored me to tears. I don't think anybody's written about it, or very few have, with any verve.

  Dave Eggers

  Reading, Thinking, Tears

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 23, 2005.

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• I would get very bored if I just did one thing.

  Alexa Chung

  One Thing, Ifs

  "Alexa Chung For L'Oréal Professionnel INOA". Interview with Lisa Niven, www.vogue.co.uk. February 22, 2013.

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• I want to feel something, as a person. I don't want to be bored.

  Pina Bausch

  Want, Feels, Persons

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• I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.

  Eli Broad

  Bankers, Lawyer, My Time

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• What makes you so lavish that you can afford to spend every sober moment feeling angry and bored?

  Ani DiFranco

  Feelings, Unanswered Questions, Sober

  Song: Come Away From It, Album: Up Up Up Up Up Up

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• If I am not moving I get bored very easily.

  Adriana Lima

  Moving, Ifs

  "Adriana Lima Runway Photos at Victoria's Secret Show Amaze Fans Just 2 Months Since Giving Birth" by Jessica Rodriguez, www.christianpost.com. November 10, 2012.

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• There are times when I'm so bored with being healthy and organic that I crave sugar and additives.

  Martine McCutcheon

  Healthy, Sugar, Crave

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

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• I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.

  Zayn Malik

  Games, Play, Drawing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Law and Order' is completely story-driven and completely characterless, really. If you do that format for five years and you're an actor, you're bound to get bored. It wears on you. And it was really wearing on me.

  Chris Noth

  Order, Years, Law

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

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• If I take pictures at a party, I never get bored.

  Jean Pigozzi

  Party, Ifs

  "The Art World's Most Fabulous Women" by Miranda Purves, www.elle.com. November 30, 2011.

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• Facebook isn't helping you make new connections, Facebook doesn't develop new relationships, Facebook is just trying to be the most accurate model of your social graph. There's a part of me that feels somewhat bored by all of this.

  Sean Parker

  New Relationship, Trying, Connections

  "Sean Parker ‘Bored’ By Facebook — And It Seems He’s Not The Only One" By Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2012.

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• I've read plenty of amazing science pieces where the writers don't hang out in labs. I just have fun doing it. And I get rewarded for it; I get gushy, especially when kids tell me they expected to be bored by my books, but weren't.

  Mary Roach

  Fun, Book, Kids

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• One thing any backpacker will tell you is that it's tedious and monotonous. You're bored sometimes, so you really have to make the fun in your head.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Fun, Sometimes, Monotonous

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• When I get a fringe, it's because I'm bored or need a change; I always regret it!

  Chloe Sevigny

  Regret, Needs, Fringe

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• If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer ... We are in the business of reproducing reality from nothing. We are the biggest liars in the world, seeking truth.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Liars, Writing, Reality

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• In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.

  Andre Gide

  People, Awkward, Dull

  Andre Gide (2015). “The Immoralist”, p.60, Lulu Press, Inc

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