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• I'm not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Bored, Trying, Able

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• The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Powerful, Book, Writing

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life- it is very slow and boring. I'm not interested in that now unless an opportunity was provided for me.

  Rick Moranis

  Movie, Opportunity, Actors

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• I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Guy, Way, Conservative

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• I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Passion, Justice, Artificial

  "The talented Ms Highsmith", www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2000.

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• The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Ties, Secret, Looks

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• Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

  Elias Canetti

  Fear, Pessimism, Pessimist

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• I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

  J. G. Ballard

  Fear, Interesting, Soul

  October 30, 1982 Interview, Re/Search, No. 8/9, 1984.

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• I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

  Kurt Cobain

  Life, Wish, Complaining

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• An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

  Roald Dahl

  Book, Writing, Details

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.10, Penguin

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• I've got no dark secrets, I wasn't beaten up, my parents were kind to me and there was a low crime rate where we lived. Maybe that's where the comedy comes from, as some sort of reaction to the safe, boring suburbs.

  Will Ferrell

  Dark, Parent, Secret

  "The $29 million man". Interview with Jason Solomons, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2006.

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• A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

  Franz Kafka

  Views, Woods, Stairs

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Artist, Information, Faces

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• None of the characters I`ve played are really like me. That would be boring. It wouldn`t be acting.

  Anna Paquin

  Character, Acting, Would Be

  "Child superstar Anna Paquin's vampish turn" by Akin Ojumu, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2000.

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• Boring people are a reflection of boring people.

  Douglas Horton

  Reflection, People, Boredom

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• Have you seen U2's live show? It's boring as hell. It's like watching CNN.

  Sharon Osbourne

  Cnn, Hell, Shows

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• Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.

  Alan Bullock

  Weekend, Alive, Coming Back

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• When I have to go to Cannes, that is boring to me.

  Monica Bellucci

  Cannes

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• There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

  Tim Robbins

  Acting, Actors, Unintelligent

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• A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Depressing, People, Work Out

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• Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Interesting, Made, Concentration

  Hilaire Belloc (1938). “Stories, essays, and poems”

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• On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in.

  Bill Budge

  Reflection, Interesting, Personality

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• I like to take things that are boring-but-important and try to make them interesting. That was definitely what I was after with Eat The Rich.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Interesting, Important, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Trying, Vitamins, Drink

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