Boring Quotes - Page 40

• When it comes to rock music, I'm not much of a player, but I do have entry-level chops. I'm more knowledgeable as a listener, and Revival gave me a way to write about rock and roll without being preachy or boring.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Player, Rocks

  Interview with Catherine Elsworth, www.goodreads.com. November 2014.

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• It's always interesting to play people different from yourself, it would be boring for me to play myself.

  Sydney Pollack

  Play, People, Interesting

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, "Le jeu et les moi." It's impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound. It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.

  Agnes Varda

  Beautiful, Song, Nice

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you've blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that... wrll, it's because the national anthem is boring.

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Country, Humor

  "Billy Connolly: Live 1994". DVD, 1994.

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• All illegal narcotics are medicinal. Boredom is a disease worse than cancer. Drugs cure it, with little or no side effects if used as directed. Life's temporary for a reason, it gets boring after awhile. You should be inventing new drugs is what you should be doing! Newer, crazier drugs... and more holes, that's what you ladies need!

  Doug Stanhope

  Funny, Cancer, Humor

  "Doug Stanhope: Deadbeat Hero". Comedy, August 24, 2004.

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• Any medium can only live up to the strengths of the people working in it. If it's been used to tell bad or boring stories, it's not a problem with comics; it's a problem with the writers of those comics.

  Marjane Satrapi

  People, Stories, Problem

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Interesting, Answers, Ugliness

  "'Evil Can also Be Beautiful'". Interview with Matthias Matussek and Joachim Kronsbein, www.spiegel.de. March 27, 2006.

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• That's why I love improvisational theater so much - you do it [scene] once and then it's done. You don't get bogged down with a lot of preplanning and repetition. If I do something and it gets a laugh, I don't want to do it again. Why bother? I'm just repeating myself. It's boring.

  Amy Sedaris

  Laughing, Done, Want

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I have no ideals. I have no will that the world should be any better or worse or anything... Because I know that for every genius there exists a robbing murderer. There is nothing to do about that. The world is such that if you want to find the intensity within the genuine, you will at the same time find the criminals around the nearest corner. And if you eliminate that genetic quality in the human being, then everyone will become very inactive and very boring, but on the other hand we get rid of criminality.

  Odd Nerdrum

  Hands, Quality, Criminals

  Source: sturm-lie.be

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• Advertising agencies don't care about a better world in the end. They are servants of their client: what the client wants is what they get. Their only problem is to not lose the budget. I think its a shame because advertising is so boring and it can be so interesting. They should ask more artists to make interesting campaigns.

  Oliviero Toscani

  Thinking, Artist, Agency

  Source: valuet.wordpress.com

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• The myth of objectivity made nonfiction increasingly unread. In feature articles, we could be playful in the opening and clever in the end but in the middle it was back to the boring basics.

  Lee Gutkind

  Clever, Objectivity, Nonfiction

  Source: speechwriting-ghostwriting.typepad.com

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• Being an assistant in a computer lab was the worst job I ever had. It was boring. That was when I was in college.

  Chris Carmack

  Jobs, College, Labs

  "Nashville's Chris Carmack on The O.C. and the rules of the death row meal". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. September 22, 2015.

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• There might be lots of boring thoughts coming from someone else, but the way they come across, they would be mind blowing because they would come in such a way so foreign to me. I think I would mostly be surprised, but alarmed also. There will be something within each of us, despite our differences, in thought processes to connect us.

  Matthew Carter

  Thinking, Differences, Mind Blowing

  Source: darkagefiction.wordpress.com

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• I have a boyfriend who knows how to settle me. He puts his hand on my chest and tells me boring stories. On one of our first nights together I woke up apologizing for my snoring and he pulled out two earplugs he had worn to bed so he could hear what I was saying.

  Amy Poehler

  Night, Hands, Two

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.140, Pan Macmillan

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• Different drinks have different metaphorical weight. Wine's heady, gin is poisonous, vodka's cold, and beer is plain boring. In real life, I'm a big fan of boxed white wine, much to the dismay of my more refined friends.

  Cate Marvin

  Real, Wine, Beer

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• While I've lived in cities for most of my adult life, I really prefer the quiet, boring, mundanity of the country. It's the best place for me to work, think, and invent.

  Jacob Hashimoto

  Country, Thinking, Cities

  "An Interview with the Artist: Jacob Hashimoto". Interview with Pari Ehsan, www.paridust.com. September 26, 2014.

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• Usually horror in your personal life can translate into some good music. Sometimes. Sometimes it can be really maudlin and boring, and kind of personal.

  Bob Schneider

  Kind, Sometimes, Horror

  Source: www.roomthirteen.com

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• You don't see what's gone before. A lot of that can be long, long boring hours in the gym, long, long hours on the track or, for the likes of Paula Radcliffe, long hours out on the road in the rain running and running.

  Jill Douglas

  Running, Rain, Long

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Very good training to just be a person is growing up in Canada. People say a lot of things about Canada, like that it's boring, but if you look around the world, you can praise boring. It's a very civilized place to grow up. I'm very proud of it.

  Mike Myers

  Growing Up, People, Training

  Source: collider.com

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• I live the most boring life, away from what you see me on camera doing. The other 300 days out of the year [not touring], I'm just the most normal person in the universe. I'm a wife. I'm a mother to my doggies. I'm a maid, and I clean the house. I'm pretty boring.

  Carrie Underwood

  Mother, Years, Wife

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a bit obsessive. I've just bought this Wi-Fi radio, which can pick up 7,500 stations from all over the world. I'm boring my wife to death with it. I've got a thing about technology, so I've got four sat-nav systems and loads of gadgets, including a 100% accurate watch. Any new development and I'm there buying it. My best trait is that I'm happy and optimistic.

  Tony Blackburn

  Optimistic, Technology, Wife

  "Interrogation: Tony Blackburn". Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 25, 2007.

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• Sometimes when my fans come up to me, they think it's going to be entertaining, like I'm going to tell jokes or do bits, and then instead of that I end up talking about really mundane things with my fans, and then they're kind of like, "This is boring. I want to go talk to somebody else." I think I bore my fans to death by over-talking to them.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Thinking, Talking, Fans

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I think the reason why I'm so alluring to networks is because on the surface I'm like a quintessential relatable, boring white guy. A great many sitcoms have been anchored by a boring white guy, so I feel like what they want to mine from me are my more generic qualities.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Thinking, White, Guy

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I don't feel one could even remotely touch the idea of intimidating others, but because I've understood the other side of the experience, I will occasionally, if I smell that could even be in the air for a few minutes, say to the director, "Please, you must tell me anything you want. Please say all the things you think might be terribly hurtful like, 'That was boring.'"

  Kenneth Branagh

  Thinking, Air, Ideas

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 4, 2010.

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• The Christian life is anything but boring.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, Church

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