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I consider politics very boring.
I think people have the wrong idea of ‘Moby Dick’ as this somber, boring thing.
Harmony is boring.
So much of existence is so boring. To have little moments of stupidity is always welcome.
If you’re you, it doesn’t matter if you’re the most boring person in the world: someone will like you. You’re not trying to be anyone else.
The ’50s were terrifying with nuclear bomb stuff but boring in a social way, and then the ’60s were happening, and remember, there was no AIDS.
My husband gave up all his work to stay at home with the kids, and we split all the duties at home. I do all the boring stuff – like pay the bills, and he does all the exercising for both of us, which I’m very grateful for… I thank him for it regularly.
It gets so boring you know just to do the same thing over and over again.
Maybe philosophy – I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it’s terribly boring.
Because in classical music cello is not regarded as a popular choice, it’s always playing the long, boring notes.
I know one thing – if I didn’t have TV and theatre and radio, the world would be a much more boring place.
Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring – an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.
I’m a pretty boring guy. Compared to Ashton Kutcher, I live a really boring existence.
As much as everyone says that Superman is good, a lot of other people might say that that’s why they find him boring… A lot of Batman fans might say that.
I feel like a total hippie right now. I’m passionate about all sorts of things – a lot of boring, cuddly Hallmark things, to be honest.
I’d hate it if everyone in the world liked me, my music and what I wore. It’d make it boring, and I wouldn’t have anything to work towards. It’s not to everyone’s taste, but I can only be me.
We’re at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we’re still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity… Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That’s boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don’t exist.
‘I Am Number Four’ definitely borrows from a whole bunch of genres and has a whole bunch of different themes throughout. And I think if it was just one stale two-dimensional thing then it would be kind of boring. And I think they did a fantastic job.
The racing is quite boring, sometimes. It’s hard to see how it pulls in fans.
I make things up for a living. It would be pretty boring to just fictionalize real people.
Acting’s boring.
I don’t want to be boring. But that’s not always easy.
Both villains and heroes are a bit boring, really, unless they’re flawed and broken somehow. If they’re not flawed and broken, then clearly they need to be broken and made flawed. That’s what an author does if he or she has any dignity.
It’s just so cool when you meet people who are different than you are. That can give you a different perspective, a viewpoint on life, or inspire you. I mean, what would the world be like if we were all the same? I think it would be very boring.
There’s no conversation more boring than talking about what it’s really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don’t care.
You look at Moto3, the races are very exciting. Moto2 is fantastic, and then MotoGP is boring.
I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.
Usually a lot of moviemaking is boring.
Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.
I love pretending to be other people. The more unlike me they are the better – I find other people endlessly fascinating and myself incredibly boring.
To make films is as boring as watching paint dry – you usually have to do little tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back – the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going.
Given a choice between great food and boring company or boring food and great company, I’ll take the great company any day.
Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet, unassuming music, and TV shows that win awards. In that way, I am an elitist snob.
I do retweet some of the things that people say about the things I’ve done, but I don’t necessarily want to use it to promote myself because I find that it gets kind of boring. There should just be a whole different site for that. Because it’s just kind of boring and gross to use it just self-promotion.
How boring would this world be if everyone was the same?
I don’t like American football. I think it’s boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It’s played on a diamond.
Meat, to me, it’s slightly boring. Hold on, I love meat too, but only once in a while. You get a piece of meat, and you put it in your mouth, you chew, the first five seconds, all the juices flow around your mouth, they’re gone, and then you are 20 more seconds chewing something that is tasteless at this point.
I think we can all be divas, but as an actress, you can’t only be the diva; that would be boring. But sometimes, perhaps, it’s fun.
To me idealized characters are so boring to play, especially having grown up in the classical theater. That’s a great experience, but as a woman, especially, you’ve played a lot of idealized characters. So when you’ve got someone who has weaknesses as well as strengths, that’s interesting.
None of my songs sound the same. None of them. I take R&B beats and put it as a rap song or hip-hop beats and put them as a R&B song. A lot of people are boring. I don’t like boring music. Everybody sounds the same, like they copying.
One of the things that put me off writing for a while was that piece of advice everybody gives new writers: ‘Write what you know.’ Nobody would ever want to read about my boring life! But I do know a lot of things about different societies’ cultures and mythologies. The way people were and are.
American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring.
My story is so boring: Long Island Jewish parents take their daughters to Broadway.
You can’t pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It’s better to create a reaction than to create no reaction. That’s dangerous.
I have a horror of boring someone or, worse still, of someone boring me. I said to my mother when I was seven, ‘But, Mums, if it was only my husband and me in the house together, what would we talk about?’ I’ve never wanted to answer my own question, and doubt I’ll bother now.
There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.
I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring.
To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.
My office. It’s drab and boring but quiet.
I’ve done enough for a while and people get fed up of seeing you, but apart from that, although I’m young, I need a bit of rest. You could say I have become a house husband. It’s not a new man thing, it’s just largely a boring man who doesn’t mind staying in the house thing.
Courtroom dramas can be boring.
I guess for my skin, I clean it and moisturize and try to drink water. How boring is this though? I’m convinced that it comes from within. If you’re happy and healthy, it shows.
When money, rather than innovation or value, is your competitive advantage, that’s when things get boring and stagnant, and monopolies take root.
I have nothing bad to say about Briedis. His style is a bit boring, but I respect him. Briedis is a world champion, so he has to be good.
I hate it when theater people go on about professionalism – aren’t they boring? I try to be as unprofessional as possible. And I’m a little bit politically incorrect.
Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument, and they no longer think they can make the world a better place. That can make them rather boring, I suppose.
Audiences don’t want to see the kind of self-indulgent, boring dance that is so prevalent today.
You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There’s the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
It had become boring to write: ‘I like Clare Balding’. To say: ‘I don’t like Clare Balding’ is much more newsworthy.
Honestly, I’ve been thinking lately about how boring I am. When I do get time to myself, I watch TV.
I’m pretty low-key. I’m pretty boring, to be honest.
Once you do have a child, you want to talk about every detail of it. And it is really boring to all your friends, and it should be. I was really worried about even going there at all.
I’ve always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful thought, as it seems now looking back on it, A war! That should liven things up a bit!
One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It’s why he found shooting on set boring – because he had already composed the film in his head.
There’s this perception of D.C. as a boring town run by old white men, but in reality, there are incredibly young people in charge of really important things.
Too often, bridal shows are boring – I love including a small, unexpected element to make it interesting, like the removable skirts and umbrellas in seasons past.
It’s legendary how architectural lectures can be incredibly boring.
Movies are boring. It’s like watching paint dry. I did a little role in a movie, and it was eight lines. I was there for three days. It’s just horrible. Television is 15 hour days. Movies are 18 hour days. And it’s 18 hours of doing not a thing.
I never analyze stuff with comedy because it’s boring. It makes you stop being funny. Just be who you are and do what you do, and you’re either funny or you’re not.
When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful.
Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.
I tell my friends married life is boring, but that’s just a fun thing to say to make single people feel better.
My favourite animal is the koala, but his life would be boring. I would rather be a giraffe so that I could contemplate the beauty of Africa.
In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring.
My time on television began, and I started playing victims. I did about 10 or 12 years of them, which gets boring, right?
I’m afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.
I found out animation is incredibly boring. You draw and draw and draw, and it’s only a few seconds done in a week.
I’m very boring. I’m a mom. I’m 34 years old.
I’m not boring to be around. Something will always happen.
People think I’m Snow White… the most boring person in the world!
There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.
I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.
It’s hard ‘coz you have got different time zones; you can’t sleep and y’know, it’s boring way for the show to happen, but you do off the stage. Y’know, onstage it’s all better.
Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It’s just not a good way to think. It’s non-thinking. It’s stupid and destructive.
Most people in archeology find their specialties in strange and unique ways. I always wanted to do archaeology, and then the time came for me to actually be in the field, and it was excruciatingly boring. Excavation is really, really boring.
I’ve never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
I hate talking about myself, I find it such a boring topic. I’d much rather talk about other things.
In Britain you’re more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible.
Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren’t relatable, and if you can’t put yourself in the protagonist’s shoes, not only will they not inspire you, but the book will be pretty boring.
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.
Characters can become boring. That’s what’s tricky about television. It goes on and on – you’re playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene.
When I’m doing a movie, I eat the same thing every day. For lunch, it’s tuna salad or chicken salad and cole slaw. That’s it. For dinner it’s either veal and rice, fish and rice or steak and rice. It gets boring; boy, does it get boring.
The things of Catholic life are never boring because we have such a rich tradition and so many stories to tell.
When you’re a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it’s really boring, but it’s not. It’s enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing experience. And then when you’re a working mother you have to pretend that you feel guilty all day long.
It’s not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don’t forget things like that.
One thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but he’s not boring.
Like anything else, acting can become boring – a chore, really – if there isn’t any challenge. And I like taking challenges. Just when people think they have me figured out, I like to surprise them.
What I like about The Sims is that I don’t have a normal life at all, so I play this game where these people have these really boring, mundane lives. It’s fun.
I’m ready for a Christianity that ‘ruins’ my life, that captures my heart and makes me uncomfortable. I want to be filled with an astonishment which is so captivating that I am considered wild and unpredictable and… well… dangerous. Yes, I want to be ‘dangerous’ to a dull and boring religion.
I prize being just a normal dude that wakes up, goes to work, comes home to his wife – like, quite boring.
What can happen if a young reader picks up a book he/she isn’t yet ready for? Questions, maybe. Usually, that child puts down the book and says, ‘Boring.’ Or, ‘I’m not ready for this.’ Kids are really good at knowing what they can handle.
This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted.
Writers keep writing and publishers publishing – it never grows boring.
My middle name should be ‘Drama,’ but I love it. I think everyone should have some kind of stress in their life; otherwise, it’s boring isn’t it?
I’m pretty boring really.
For the most part, yeah, I’m happy with my body, but there are days when I’m like, ‘Ugh! Really? Why is it so hard to fit into my jeans?’ That’s when I say to myself, ‘I look this way because I’m supposed to. If we all looked the same, we’d be boring.’
It’s funny: a lot of roles I do read for mention physical presence – like, ‘built like a quarterback’ – and for me, it’s pretty boring because I don’t want that to be the most important thing. I’m not trying to be Dwayne Johnson.
My daily routine is set: I wake up and go for gymnastics, then dance class, gym, and come back home. That’s my life. I am very boring.
Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.
I have my work and my faith… If that’s boring to some people, I can’t tell you how much I don’t care.
Sanity and clarity are more important for me and I’m willing to give up a lot of shimmer for it. I’m willing to have more boring friends, who are sane.
I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring.
After so much reality TV and confessional celebrity interviews, the public is tired of accessible stars. Who needs them to be ‘Just Like Us?’ ‘Just Like Us’ means just as boring as we are.
People don’t analyze Britney Spears’ lyrics ’cause they’re so obvious, you know? And her image is so kind of blah and mainstream that who really wants to read between the lines, because it’s all so out there in front of you and boring and white bread.
I admire actors that consistently challenge themselves and play a wide range of different roles. Every actor has a reason for being an actor… it’s boring to play the same person over and over again. People like Daniel Day Lewis, who completely transform time and time again, I look up to.
I don’t want to be with someone boring because I’m always laughing. I like to play jokes on people and be sarcastic.
I found reading musical notation frightfully boring.
‘The Daily Mail’ interviewed my friends in Jamaica to find out if I was ever the victim of a vicious homophobic attack because, to them, I’m a gay refugee. But nothing like that happened. So, no surprise, that story didn’t appear. I’m really pretty boring.
‘Fast Food Nation’ was boring and aimed at yuppies, and yuppies don’t eat fast food.
A lot of people view science as dull or boring, and I think the stance we take, using humour, not taking ourselves too seriously… I think people enjoy that. I think it’s quite refreshing.
What could be more boring than a novel that tells you how to think about everything that happens in it?
I understand when people think dressage is boring. But while your standard horse is like driving a Fiesta, our horses are like driving Formula One cars. I can’t breathe without the horse reacting. You are training another being to become really responsive and athletic and powerful.
Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we’ve seen too many of her books on screen.
Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.
I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.
I can’t be bothered to go to the gym, though. I honestly just can’t be bothered – it’s the most boring thing on Earth. I have tried and every six months I go ‘right, I’m going to the gym’. Then I do it for two weeks and get so bored by it.
I don’t try to be completely calculating in everything I say and do, but there’s no way I’m going to talk. There’s no reason to. And that’s why I’m such a boring interview, because I don’t go for the shock value, or smartass answers.
You’ve got to put interesting people around you; you’ve got to work with people who are gonna inspire you to take the songs you’ve written into a completely different direction, because there’s nothing more boring than going to the studio and predictably knowing what is going to happen.
I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
I think if you’re not offending somebody somewhere, then your show is probably just very bland and boring.
Exciting cities stay exciting, and boring cities stay boring.
I think as a species we’re not designed to be able to think more than one year into the future – if that. Even trying to imagine one year from now makes most people feel like they’ve been given a huge boring chunk of homework that’s too hard to do.
Somebody writing a subroutine is unbelievable boring.
Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring.
I like being boring to a certain extent. I don’t have to be flashy. I get to put all of that into a show, and when it’s over, I don’t have to be that.
We have to take risks with art. If we don’t, it all becomes a bit boring.
If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many people’s lives are better, you know it’s hard, and some people think it’s boring.
I wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading is boring, then I haven’t done my job.
I find that each job that I do, the thing that gets me there is when I’m not smarter than it, when I don’t know instantly how that thing is made. Because if I do, then it’s boring. Or it would be simple.
It’s a very dull thing to watch, a writer at work. So dull that whole casts of characters show up just to watch the boring writer writing.
Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
If an actor is bored, then they are boring to an audience. I definitely don’t want to ever be that.
The real romantics are the boring ones – they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs.
I just like surprising people. I never want to get to a place where people see that I am in a movie and they go see the movie and they expect a certain performance one way or the other. That is just inherently boring to me.
I am not a celebrity. I work with celebrities, and it is very difficult. When a celebrity wears a dress, it’s good for business, so brands fight for the red carpet. Me? I don’t like it, because fashion becomes a job about dressing celebrities. And it’s a bit boring.
I’ve become really good at turning down the boring, pretty girl roles, the trophy wife, supermodel, beautiful girlfriend roles. I mean, playing somebody who’s perfect holds no allure for me, whatsoever. It’s just boring.
I don’t really do simple. I’m not really interested in simple at the end of the day, because nothing’s ever simple, and nothing’s ever perfect. People certainly aren’t – I would hope, anyway, because that would be boring, wouldn’t it?
It wasn’t really until the 10th or 11th grade when I started to play well, and football took the place of baseball, which was my love when I was five years old. I don’t know what happened; baseball just got boring to me, I guess.
The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.
When you’re young, everything’s boring, basically.
When you’ve written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it’s pretty boring.
In my experience, take the Holy Spirit out of the equation of your life and it spells boring. Add it into the equation of your life and you never know where you are going to go, what you are going to do, or who you are going to meet.
Most bands out there are basically pretty boring. I try to affect people inside their bodies.
If Adele’s seen as boring, then I’m happy to be boring as well.
Crime is a job and it’s boring. It’s also unpleasant.
But I have to grow out of it, because it’s very boring, really. Even when you’re telling people how crap you are, you’re still banging on about yourself.
What is interesting about me isn’t that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it’s boring. I am sorry, but it’s reducing who I really am, and it’s really boring.
Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
Most screenplays I receive are boring, and some are straight-out bad.
I find weddings really boring. They give speeches, your aunt kisses you on the cheek, and you’re at a boring table. But it’s different when it’s your own.
If you make decisions based upon people’s reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.
I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really – it’s so boring.
I know for sure that nothing is guaranteed. Life always changes. I know for sure that I’m open to all possibilities always… let’s just say my life is never boring.
Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which we scientists draw our nourishment and energy. And also, learn the math. Math is the language of nature, so we have to learn this language.
I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
They all went down in droves because just scenes of palm trees and beaches can get pretty boring.
I would never do something like Speed 2 again. If I’d wanted to make those kind of movies I could have signed up for five of them while it was in the can. It wasn’t worth it to me. That was just an innocuous, boring movie.
I would love to do parts I have never done before, but unfortunately, if you have had success in a particular type of character, the casting agents think, ‘Oh! We’ll have something exactly like that.’ It’s very boring.
I don’t want easy success. It’s boring.
If you’re an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It’s boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.
They were keen for me still to play the piano, which I was going to, but 45 minutes of piano would be extremely boring. I like a bit of light and shade.
You can’t plan everything – if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.
Fittings are boring, but it’s fun when you get to wear something new and go to a new event. I have a massive say in what I wear – I work really closely with my stylist.
I find politicians so desperately boring. I don’t trust them and don’t believe in them.
As I’ve said before, and I still hold to, I truly am the most boring person alive. And if there was a great investigation to be found at the end of the resume, it would be, the most boring person alive.
I don’t feel bad or scared about getting older in terms of my looks or anything like that. I’m not afraid of my face changing. I enjoy seeing my face change. I think it’s really interesting. I wouldn’t want to have same face for my whole life. It would be boring to look at the same face in the mirror for 80 years.
I never thought I wanted to write about the ’50s, because I thought it was the most boring and bland decade to grow up in, and I never wanted to go back there.
Once I turned 40, my whole life changed in the most mature – not boring way but much cooler way. I feel much more like an adult.
I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.
You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring. People will be boring.
Retail is my game. I spend every waking hour thinking about it. I started in the industry at the age of 18 after trying various other things that were mind-numbingly boring to me.
Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.
The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head – chemo-brain they call it. It’s awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned.
We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.
Before ‘Local Hero,’ I’d been knocking about Glasgow in rock bands, drinking too much and generally being 21. My opinion of actors was that they were straight and boring, so you see, I was completely unprepared for being one.
There’s no blueprint; getting married doesn’t make you boring, having kids doesn’t make you boring, having money doesn’t necessarily have to make you boring.
I was a pin-up girl. I did it for 30 years and, quite frankly, it gets a bit boring.
It’s so boring to put on make-up and change clothes five times in a row for one photo shoot.
In some cases I feel like they haven’t appreciated enough that growing up doesn’t mean boring and old and not full of life. I like to talk about that also.
I don’t stick to a routine, because I like to mix things up, which stops training becoming boring and helps shock muscles into firing up.
Not being boring is quite a challenge.
Film work can be very interesting, but it also can be awfully boring because who creates the film? The actors? No. It is the director. It’s his piece of work.
Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that’s a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.
A lot of people stop short. They don’t actually die but they say, ‘Right I’m old, and I’m going to retire,’ and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.
In real life, I am alarmingly boring.
The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.
Waiting in line for something mundane is very boring. Waiting for my doctor to see me and waiting for my dentist to see me, yes, that is boring.
Like a lot of kids, you kind of think baseball’s boring – that’s the perception.
Whatever job you’re asked to do, whether you think it’s mundane, boring, or beneath you, do the best job you can. No assignment should be treated as a task. Before you can climb the ladder, you need to build a good foundation.
You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring. People will be boring.
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
My friends tell me I’m the most boring celebrity they know! A typical night for me is at home in California or watching movies in my pyjamas.
I admired shows like ‘Six Feet Under.’ That was an amazing show. Never boring, always inventive, smart. Loved the characters. Completely original. Those are shows that I admire.
We did a lot of fight scenes in ‘Hitman: Agent 47,’ so you have to learn repetitious movements to music; otherwise, it’s amazingly boring. Michael Jackson was our savior.
Countries aren’t built by boring people.
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
I lead a very boring, normal life.
When you become a parent, that’s a whole new level of life intruding. Nobody tells you how boring and time-sucking it’s going to be! Or how the responsibility feels like an airbag going off in your life.
Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.
It took me years to realize that ‘normal’ is actually super boring and that being myself was harder but infinitely more rewarding.
I guess I’m crazy. If everything was easy-peasy and green lights all the time, it’d be kind of boring.
I know it’s a cliche, but trust me on this. I once dated a Canadian. Canada = boring.
Always there should be a little mistake here and there – I am for it. The people who don’t do mistakes are cold like ice. It takes risk to make a mistake. If you don’t take risk, you are boring.
The only advantage of the CD is that you have a booklet that can tell a bit of a story, but the little covers are just boring. I love vinyl, and I have loads of it. It’s the same thing as digital photography versus film photography. It’s a quality thing.
Humanizing good people is kind of boring and I don’t really see the value in it… humanizing tricky characters is exhilarating, and making audience films out of indie subjects excites me.
I’ve been on ‘Jay Leno,’ and everyone likes Jay, but being on that show is a really boring afternoon. I sincerely like Jay, but I wouldn’t want his job, because I’d have to interview Kathy Ireland, and there’s nothing there I’d want to know.
I don’t want to be one of those people who falls out of cabs drunk. But I don’t want to be known as some boring girl who just sits at home and doesn’t do anything.
I’m so boring.
Why is it surprising that scientists might have long hair and wear cowboy boots? In fields like neuroscience, where the events you are recording are so minute, I suspect scientists cultivate a boring, reliable image. A scientist with a reputation for flamboyance might be suspect.
You know, I’m just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don’t feel pressured to be otherwise.
What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn’t have mistakes, it’s nothing.
Effective listening is something that can absolutely be learned and mastered. Even if you find attentive listening difficult and, in certain situations, boring or unpleasant, that doesn’t mean you can’t do it. You just have to know what to work on.
The food I eat the most is probably steamed, plain white rice. I know its really, really, really boring, but that’s honestly the food I eat the most. No, I like cucumber avocado rolls… I love that.
The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.
I feel like everything you learn as an actor growing up is wrong. You’re supposed to hit your mark, find your light and know your lines. Those are all things that just make things wooden, dull and boring.
I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation.
I hate the gym, so I try to diversify my workouts with swimming and basketball. Indoors, it’s less boring than running. I do find that diet is key. I eat lots of lean protein, no soda, no fast food or fried foods, and a lot of water. But I love food and often cook.
I’ll get up in the morning while they’ve all got hangovers and run my 5 miles. But the women who do run are usually 10 years younger than me and they’re really obsessed about running. That’s all they do. They’re really boring.
If there’s not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.
I’m just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime’s been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you’ve got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that’s why character matters, why you’ve got to make the characters interesting.
My coming out was just so boring.
Am I being typecast as a horrible person? I don’t know. I don’t think so. But if it happens, I’d rather get to play that, because there’s nothing fun about being sweet. Sweet can be so boring, so I’d be happy staying away from that.
I can’t imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
I’m pretty boring.
And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.
I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls.
I seem to be failing in my intention to be as boring as I possibly can be for self-protection.
Law became boring, but like every job I’ve done, it helped prepare me for a career in music.
Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.
Bad for the sake of bad is boring to me and not believable.
With confidence, I think anyone can get a dress and make it their own. I don’t think you should have it off the runway and wear it like they want you to wear it. You know, with their hair and makeup – their woman. I just think it’s boring. You have to make it your own. That’s what fashion is all about.
It can get a bit boring working on accents.
Dude, I love playing drums, and I love being on stage, and I love recording. It’s my life… it’s been my life, all my life, and I don’t think it could ever become boring for me.
Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A’s.
My 12th was my most Christian and most boring year of my life. Try as I did, day after day, to cling to righteousness, I was washed down in suds of sinful surroundings.
I enjoy spending time with my family. And when my family’s not around, when I’m on the road, a lot of sleep. I get my rest. I understand how important my job is and how important rest is to that job. I’m pretty boring.
I don’t live anywhere. I have always dreamed of moving out of my country because Sweden is boring.
The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.
I like policy. It’s why I decided to enter government. The other thing I like about government – you have good days, you have bad days, but you never have a boring day, and that’s important to me.
There are a few writers whose lives and personalities are so large, so fascinating, that there’s no such thing as a boring biography of them – you can read every new one that comes along, good or bad, and be caught up in the story all over again.
Mostly I sat down and said, ‘I’m not going to write a boring story.’ And that actually, surprisingly, solves most of your problems.
Running became boring because it’s so predictable. I got to a point where I knew what my competition could do.
Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.
The only rule is don’t be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.
The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people think you can just throw them into a story and suddenly whatever you’re writing is 28% cooler. But that doesn’t work. All that does is make dragons into some boring cliche.
I coined this term ‘freedom thru limitation’ back in the ’90s because I was sick of art being treated like pop, because of this boring ‘anything can be art’ theory.
We have the script, we have the actors, and we’re trying to figure out what this is, and you don’t know what it is. You have to be open to what it’s going to become rather than have this thing that you’re trying to get to, which is boring.
You’ve got to want to play defence. Nobody really wants to play defence. It’s boring. It sucks. You don’t get the flashiness, the scores, the dunks. But you’ve got to have it.
I think it’s very boring for a director to always do the same kind of movies.
I grew up in a very celebratory town. We celebrate everything, from life to death and everything in between. So a lot of dramatics come into my aesthetic. And I’m an actor, so that adds more to the dramatic – I don’t mean over-the-top. The main thing is never to be boring.
I’ve never been interested in playing the boring ingenue.
When I was a teenager in Milwaukee in the 1980s, life was pretty boring, and I found myself riveted by the sheer melodrama of everyday life of the 1960s.
Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.
I just find that you can become a very boring person living in L.A. I tell you, living there on a day-to-day basis is vacuous: terribly fake.
At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Revolution, which was all about Acts, Trade Unions and the factory system, and I wanted to know about people, because it is people who make history.
I’ve learned several lessons over the years. First, never take yourself too seriously, or work is boring. Next, people make the difference. You can have great technology, but if it’s not complemented by great people, it won’t go anywhere. Finally, customers buy from people they like.
Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.
With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduated from college, for two years your life stopped. If you had been running in the direction of your life, you had to stop and do this other thing which was, if not menacing, just plain boring.
What do I think of L.A.? It’s boring, with some amazing nuggets. Like there are some parts of it that are great, but by and large I think it’s quite boring.
I don’t really want to be doing high budget, where they’ve got cranes and everything. That just sounds boring, having to do the same thing over and over again.
These performers that go on about their technique and craft – oh, puleeze! How boring! I don’t know what ‘technique’ means. But I do know what experience is.
To be a lawyer was too boring for me, for my personality.
I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it’s boring.
I think good tailoring and something that’s well-made never gets boring or tiring.
When we did concerts, we wanted them to be theatrical events – collaborations with designers, choreographers, and directors – because we thought traditional rock concerts were boring.
Perfect is boring.
Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
You can’t make a movie about making movies – it’s boring.
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.
I think privacy is important, and it’s important you don’t bore people with your own boring self.
I think that in order for anything to work on television, you have to have conflict. Nothing can be too happy or it’s boring. People don’t want to watch that – they want to watch things that are exciting and dangerous and sexy and have tension.
Here’s what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing’s unbalanced, there’s no reason to have a play. If Hamlet comes home from school, and his dad’s not dead and asks him if he’s had a good time, it’s boring. But if something’s unbalanced, it must be returned to order.
I guess I can’t be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring.
I’m no stranger to the occasional dodgy juice, but it doesn’t taste very nice and it is bloody boring. It’s not a way to live.
Even if it’s your wedding, if you’re a guy, it’s boring.
I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed – no, I didn’t fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn’t try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
Many models do yoga, but I find it boring. I’d rather be outdoors having fun.
Hugh Jackman is just the nicest person in the world. I know everybody says that, and it’s almost boring to hear, but he is really, really perfect.
Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.
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.
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
I was completely with the reality TV boom for a while. I really liked a lot of the reality TV, and the one that lost me was the ballroom dancing one they do, ‘Dancing with the Stars.’ That was the one where I watched it and I was perplexed. I thought it was really boring.
I’ve always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.
Yoga is the most boring exercise. It’s for people who are too lazy to get on the elliptical. Bikram, where they heat up the room to mimic India’s climate, is especially stupid. People in India are not skinny because they’re doing yoga in 105-degree rooms; they’re skinny because there’s no food.
Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.
My movies are, more or less, very short. I’m terrified of boring an audience.
I was always the ‘boring’ type. I was into the stats and spending hours and hours and hours studying them. I was always more a manager than a player.
If I was staying the same, then I wouldn’t be evolving and changing and that would be boring and that would be unhealthy.
With all the endless varieties and toppings you can add to burgers, there’s no need to keep munching on the boring burgers and ketchup found at all the tailgating events and BBQs.
This is going to sound so boring, but I play golf in Hertfordshire at a club called Sandy Lodge just by Moor Park Tube station. It’s where I unwind and don’t think about anything else.
I was 17, and all I wanted to do was to get away from England and the awful, boring boarding schools I’d been going to there. The last one was taught by monks, and I couldn’t wait to get out.
Computing should be taught as a rigorous – but fun – discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn’t have to be boring.
I got halfway through ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.’ I don’t get it at all. What’s the big thrill? It’s boring.
Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.
When I started to be a writer, I was not going to run the risk of boring you.
Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.
I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.
When I have to go to Cannes, that is boring to me.
Why be boring? Have some fun. Rock shows should be like movies: I don’t go to a movie hoping it’ll change my life.
I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it’s OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
From age 16 on, I found school boring and failed A-level Physics at my first attempt. This was necessary for university entrance, and so I stayed an extra year to repeat it. This time, I did splendidly and was admitted to Sheffield University, my first choice because of their excellent Chemistry Department.
Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that’s what makes it so boring.
When prose gets too stylized and out of control – and Stein is sometimes a good example – when you don’t know what the hell is going on, then it’s kind of boring.
When you work too much, you are boring – that is possible. But to have a happy life, if you can do several things in the correct way, that is perfect.
An action film can have too much action; picture an equaliser on a stereo, with all the knobs pegged at 10. It becomes a cacophony and is, ultimately, quite boring.
Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don’t want to watch them on TV.
Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
I’m not a perfectionist at all. I find perfectionists boring because the real creative heart is in the mess somewhere.
I’m really annoyed by the wave of country music that’s just a list of stuff. It almost sounds like L.A. people writing country music, because it’s just a list of stuff: ‘My pickup truck and my cowboy boots and my Levi’s jeans and my girlfriend with the short shorts.’ It’s so boring!
Opulence doesn’t cost more than boring.
One thing all the way through the show to me is boring. I don’t care how great the artist is. I find that if my audience is very young, and they want to hear very young songs, my show will be dominated by that. But there’ll be some ballads here and there and some swing tunes.
The press don’t like to say nice things because nice is boring. It’s much better to label me the devil. What we do is not brain surgery. We are entertainers, plain and simple, and we’re responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit.
The drums can get pretty boring as a solo instrument.
Obama’s great asset has always been an ability to maintain his air of authority without being baritone about it. He can be boring, but he is never ridiculous or pompous.
For my money, if I’m playing anything then it has to have some sharp angles on it. It’s got to have some edges that you can cut yourself on, otherwise it’s boring.
I’m not gonna name names, but sometimes when reporters are talking, it gets a little boring because I don’t have any jokes to tell because the questions are so serious.
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring – it was peace.
Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.
People’s lives are boring.
Nobody is the same. If we were all the same it would be bloody boring.
To be honest, I’m not a big golf nerd. Golf is kind of boring, not much action.
The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.
If you play the same club every week of every month, it’s kind of boring. It’s great that you can play one night in Brazil and one night in Japan, one night in Europe, and see the world. It’s amazing what you see if you travel around the world.
Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.
It would be terribly boring to be earnest.
I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don’t hang with the cool crowd.
Have you seen U2’s live show? It’s boring as hell. It’s like watching CNN.
Sometimes I wish I could just take a lightweight bag on the plane but instead I’ve got to make sure I’ve got all my medical stuff. That can become a bit boring.
I think it’s difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don’t want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art… But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
I didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.
There’s a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.
I still feel insecure all the time. I feel like it’s just a part of being a human being… I just learned normal is very boring.
I was a nursemaid. And it was pretty boring.
I learnt a lot about how to negotiate the camera: everyone had told me an actor doesn’t really need to do anything on screen, but I realised that wasn’t true. If you do nothing, it’s boring.
I love high-end designers, but a head-to-toe designer look for me is extremely boring. I’ve always mixed it up.
A lot of the rap shows I saw as a kid were boring, but if you went to a Rage show or a Justice show, the kids were losing their minds.
When we think about the past, we think, ‘It must have been so boring.’ It’s actually not.
Boring heroines are, in my opinion, the most common romance mistake. We loathe hanging out with women who define themselves purely through their relationships… why would we want to read about them?
I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way.
When I write the set, I try to create something that will not only be interesting for the audience, but will have a flow for the band, too, so we don’t get boring.
I’m not meant to run around trees. I can’t throw my arms in the air and sing, I find that boring and irritating. Sweet romcoms are not my cup of tea. The film has to be a little twisted and quirky.
I’m very low-maintenance, and that is a problem. I’m not demanding at all, and sometimes I feel that I should be throwing tantrums. But since I don’t party or socialise, and am very low-key, I think that makes me very low-maintenance. Actually, I’m the most boring person at a party.
My agent was ambitious for me. But going out and chasing it? No, I’d rather work in my vegetable garden or play with my kid. I guess I’m kind of boring.
I want people to have a good time. It’s boring only to hear singer/songwriters spilling their guts.
I am boring. I’m fine with boring.
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
I’m a very boring person.
There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me.
If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker.
These days, I am the most boring, methodical runner. I always do the same three- to five-mile loop near my home every evening. I hardly ever miss a day. On the weekends, I might go longer or add in weights.
I find day after day of sunshine boring.
I love ballet, and it’s a little boring for me to go to the gym because I’m used to the dancing discipline – it’s really hard but much more fun.
I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that’s all you’ve got, it’s just boring. Everything I write, whether it’s happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.
I lead an introverted and boring life here in California.
It’s the little things that stick with you though. Like the boring airport layovers and the bus breaking down in Prague. Those were the real bonding moments.
The hard part about writing about a guy like John Brown is that he was so serious, and his cause was so serious, that most of what’s been written about him is really serious and, in my opinion, a little bit boring.
Frankly, I am boring. My life is all about the film set, gym classes, and home.
It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn’t set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I’m traveling, I lose energy and I can’t do as many things as I want. So I have to plan days when I’m not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it’s necessary.
When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.
Really the topic of breakfast cereal is generally a very boring one.
As a kid, I thought movies were boring. My parents would hire VHS recorders for the weekend and watch Bollywood movies. I’d get bored and go out to Stoke Newington common to play football.
Being boring is just wrong, isn’t it? You wouldn’t have got anywhere being boring.
I don’t really like going out for dinner. It’s way better to not have to wait for food… It’s quite boring. I don’t cook anything, though; I just transfer it from the fridge into bowls. I’m more of a transferer than a cook.
As an author, you think you know where the good parts and the bad parts are. And then you read to a group of children, and you learn when you’re boring them, and you hurry through those sections to get to the parts where they’re interested again. You start to get a sense of your story’s rhythm and flow.
Normal love isn’t interesting. I assure you that it’s incredibly boring.
There will be a Skype movie soon… someone will crack the code, and it will be great. Then, there’ll be 30 Skype movies, and we’ll be like, ‘Oh, that’s boring.’
Personally, I like narrating stories that revolve around something new. I’d find it very boring otherwise.
If it’s boring, then it’s tiring.
Being the hot girl… you wouldn’t want that. It’s overrated. Being sexy is actually really boring to me. I’d rather be… I’d rather be interesting.
I feel like I’m so normal. So normal it’s boring.
Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.
Massive self-confidence is boring.
I don’t find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That’s it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell.
I’m kind of boring.
I’m a very boring person.
For a performer, passion is far more important than technical skills. If a dancer’s leg isn’t at a perfect angle, I can see past that, but if someone’s dead in the face, it’s really boring.
Sense of humor is important in life, not just in clothing. How boring to live a life in beige.
It’s all very boring to say that we get along great and all that and sometimes we mock up come aggravation to make it interesting but the truth of it is that we get along so well we’ve never had an argument.
If you’re ahead of your time, who’s going to listen? If you’re behind the times, it’s boring.
I don’t want to sing boring pop songs – I want to sing songs that are meaningful to me.
Personally, I have as little to do with politicians as possible. The ones that I’ve met I’ve found very boring. They’re extremely egotistical, incredibly self-important. If I can help it, I try to stay as far away from them as possible.
I’ve known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong.
My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And sometimes, on the greatest stages, it really does flourish.
Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
Life’s too short to wear boring clothes and apply boring lipsticks, and BTW, I loved my blue lipstick.
There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.
People ask me, how was university; I say it was boring and it wasn’t for me. But if you wanna go, that’s cool. I’m not out to lead people astray, but everyone has their vices.
I think it gets boring (for the audience) for the lead singer to have a guitar hanging on them all the time.
Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.
It is better to predict dramatic things that don’t happen than boring things that do.
I am really interested in eccentric minds. It’s rather like being fascinated by how cars work. It’s really boring if your car works all the time. But as soon as something happens, you get the bonnet up. If someone has an abnormal or dysfunctional state of mind, you get the bonnet up.
Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.
All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I’d like them to say, Carol’s basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol’s kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.
Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.
A lot of people work out to be skinny. That’s so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.
Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it’s a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that are going to make you money.
I do loads of one-pot things because I feel like you can’t go too far wrong. And I make a lot of soups and casseroles, which is so boring, but it’s the only thing I can do!
We don’t want to watch boring characters.
I don’t force myself to exercise; I find going to gyms really boring. I find it easier to go for a fast walk or a jog in Central Park. I wear sensible shoes because my ballet dancing left me with a bunion on one foot after all the pointe exercises.
Call me boring, but I can’t handle negative situations.
I’m truly, truly boring! I don’t change. If people know me, I have not changed.
I’ve sat through boring speeches; didn’t get up and leave.
My job is never boring. It’s always new, exciting, and challenging, and I get a rush every time I go to work. I’m the luckiest person on the planet to be able to do what I love for a living.
I may be boring, but it would be to wake up by my dog and then my daughter.
Life would be pretty boring if I didn’t explore. It’s about letting my ears take me on an adventure to soak in everything I can.
There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.
I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can’t complain about being bored.
I might just be way too boring to ever be a really great actress.
A store is just a collection of content. The Steam store is this very safe, boring entertainment experience. Nobody says, ‘I’m going to play the Steam store now.’
Early in the winter of 2002, I gave my life to the Lord. Before I was one, I always thought being a Christian would be boring. In reality, it has been the complete opposite.
I actually profoundly think the world’s a better place when economics is fairly boring… The more boring the better.
Yes, sports are very often very boring, which is good and necessary: If games were one long highlight, we wouldn’t have any highlights at all.
I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
Modeling is so… not superficial. Well, I guess it is. But it’s boring.
I’ve been offered a lot of police series, but I’m very good at staying away from them. They’re usually based on such a boring formula.
Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing’s funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.
No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.
I woke up find a rather noisy multi-lingual meeting going on. This was great as everyone could participate and even though everything had to be translated into about four different languages it never became boring. After a while the meeting broke up and everyone went for food.
I stopped dieting on plain, boring, unsatisfying food and started eating rich, delicious meals full of flavor and, yes… fat. I got skinny on fat and realized I would never have to diet again.
Making movies is time-consuming and it’s boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It’s like a big machine that moves slowly.
I grew up in Le Mars, Iowa, and even though it’s a great place to grow up and be raised as a kid, there wasn’t a lot to do. It was fairly boring, and I think the way I either escaped the boredom or found a way to keep myself occupied was through movies and TV shows.
I hate it when people lose it, there’s nothing left because they’re not interesting, they’re boring, I hate it, and especially smack, people on smack are the most boring in the world.
The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.
It may come as a surprise to people, but I’m actually quite boring and normal. What do I do? I read books. I drive my kid to school. I have lunch with my wife. I pick my kid up from school. I go home.
I can focus on what seems to be the most boring things for days at a time.
I look at some young commentators who sit down with piles of notes, and of course, what are you going to do if you’ve spent hours preparing all this stuff? You’re going to bloody well read it out. Boring!
I’m boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.
I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me.
I don’t see myself as a philosopher. That’s awfully boring.
But just think what a boring, bread-and-milk world this would be without the boastful.
I don’t personally consider myself Dr. Doom. I call myself Dr. Realist, even though it’s less exciting and more boring than being called Dr. Doom. If you are consistently saying ‘the world is going to end,’ who is going to listen to you?
You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring.
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.
I’m Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all.
The biggest and most interesting crisis in the world is the human crisis, and it never gets boring. It goes back to Shakespeare. You don’t need a gimmick; it’s just man against man and their intolerance of each other.
My hometown is a very boring city. There isn’t a lot of industry – there are a lot of trees. It’s not like Beijing where the sky is always dark. In my city the sky is blue and the sun shines.
I think if you’re everyone’s cup of tea, that probably means you’re a little bit boring, or you’re not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it’s dangerous and scary: where you’re not comfortable.
Cancer taught me to stop saving things for a special occasion. Every day is special. You don’t have to get cancer to start living life to the fullest. My post-cancer philosophy? No wasted time. No ugly clothes. No boring movies.
I paint stupid things; that’s what I do. I can’t think of anything more boring than a really beautiful thing. You have to mess it up. There has to be something a little kinky to keep their attention.
Sometimes when you’re playing a very intense character, a disturbed character, you find other layers. That’s much more interesting to me, rather than just playing ‘intense.’ I find it too boring.
I don’t smoke. I don’t drink. I don’t use drugs. That may be boring for some people, but that’s just me. That’s how I live my life.
Las Vegas has the type of audience – and they haven’t changed since my father’s days – they’re still boring and bored. And there’s only that handful of artists that they really enjoy and know how to respond to.
Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.
Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.
I’m more boring and more conservative.
I’m very boring.
A perfect hero is about as boring as a perfect marriage.
People say to me ‘You’re a big Hollywood star’, and I find it so funny. I still feel as though I’m the girl from Golders Green. I lead such a boring, normal life. I still go shopping in Sainsbury’s. If the ability to do that was taken away from me, I’d go barmy. You lose your freedom. Be careful what you wish for.
Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.
No one thinks they’re irritating. Nobody thinks they’re boring. So if you’re playing a character like that you have to play them as how they think of themselves.
Who the hell ever dreamed up a tie? It’s just such a weird idea, and yet it has been literally hanging around forever as the one constant and boring men’s fashion staple.
I love oatmeal. To me, it’s not boring. I agree that ordinary oatmeal is very boring, but not the steel-cut Irish kind – the kind that pops in your mouth when you bite into it in little glorious bursts like a sort of gummy champagne.
Nowadays, ‘Drag Race’ shows how fantastic and amazing drag queens can be, so audiences won’t sit through a boring show anymore. You have to keep people entertained.
The fact that the talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war.
I think it’s such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn’t really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.
I couldn’t imagine playing someone young now; it would be so boring.
Lidia Bastianich, sorry, but kind of boring. I mean, I love Lidia, but you can fall asleep watching her. And Mario Batali? I love Mario to death… but he’s not romantic or sensual. Those are the things I bring to the table.
If you see a player out in public having dinner, chances are he’s with his boring money manager or some boring rich guy he hopes to design a golf course for.
I am the model middle child. I am patient and I like to take care of everyone. Being called nice is a compliment. It’s not a boring way to describe me.
Quality without results is pointless. Results without quality is boring.
Pretty is so boring now. There are so many different definitions of ‘pretty.’ It’s so much broader than before. The old pretty is boring – nobody cares anymore.
I would dearly love to resist the temptation, if you can call it that, to worry. It’s boring, it’s anti-social, it’s unproductive and it’s depressing.
If the script is boring when I read it, I am sure it would be boring onscreen, too.
Why does the past seem so magical, so fraught, so luminous? At the time it was just, ugh, another boring bloody day. But, to look back on, it’s a day full of miracles and light and extraordinary events. Why is this? What process do we apply to the past, to give it this vividness? I don’t know.
I think I always wanted to be an actor – sounds a bit boring, doesn’t it? And I pretended once that I wanted to be a vet because one of the teachers asked me and saying you want to be an actor sounds a little bit silly. And I do still feel a bit silly saying it. You feel a bit fraudulent.
I’m fair-skinned, so beaches are a bit boring for me. I’m either smeared in lotion or under a shade. However, I do love the sea – diving, swimming and snorkelling.
To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.
Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong.
People started coining the phrase, ‘Bubba Golf,’ whatever you want to call it, which I like. ‘Bubba Golf’ is going to be fun. I mean, why do what everybody else does? That’s boring.
I don’t know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets – the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from.
The last thing businessmen want to do is sit in a room filled with other businessmen. A room full of money is a pretty boring sight – unless it’s yours, of course.
A lot of mainstream photographers seem not to think about what they’re doing or feel any responsibility toward anything. By the time they’re done, the models don’t have any trace of themselves left. This thing about looking young with no wrinkles or expression is all so boring, really.
When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.
Better to be wrong than be boring.
I live in Nashville, and I love to sing. When I’m on stage, I feel like a performer for sure. I know people are looking at me and taking pictures and singing along, and that part’s wonderful, but I do live in Nashville. I live the most boring life away from what you see me on camera doing.
Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.
Let’s face it: fitness is boring. But it’s critical to be extremely dedicated to whatever you decide to take up to achieve a desired result. There’s no way you are going to get there without dedication, which is the key for me.
The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after.
I don’t get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
Science is you! It’s your head, it’s your dog, it’s your iPhone – it’s the world. How do you see that as boring? If it’s boring, it’s because you’re learning it from a textbook.
Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she’s beautiful but don’t have anything to talk about, it’s going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.
I also think there’s too many players who say the same boring answers, they don’t even have to turn up to interviews because journalists answer their own questions the way they ask them. Unfortunately the way it is now players are so afraid to say anything, but I’d like them to be honest.
Fashion people think that the careful Nice companies are boring beyond measure. (Nice people think fashionistas look silly and should Get A Life).
Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.
It’s been a rollercoaster life but it hasn’t been boring.
Lots of opera singers are just boring.
I train three, four, five times a week, protein six times a day, resistance training for at least 45 minutes… it’s so very boring. It’s really painful. It’s laborious.
I was a dedicated, boring student. The last thing I wanted was to be a comedienne.
There are a lot of lousy conferences that pander to sponsors. They end up creating an opportunity for boring speakers who are paid shills for their companies. We still get a few of those, but we really try to police it. Think about who the audience is and what works for them, and deliver high-quality content.
I’ve had such a satisfying life professionally and personally. I hope my tombstone says, ‘Never boring.’
There is a perception within our community and the world that black people don’t love each other. That we don’t fight for each other. That perception is so dangerous. We need positive images to counter the negative portrayals we see every day. And positive doesn’t mean perfect. Perfect is boring.
Every time you get in shape for a role, there’s a different way to do it so it doesn’t get boring.
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
Maybe directors who are more interested in realism and naturalism come from cities, where they see things on their doorstep every day. But growing up as a kid in a very pretty but ever-so-slightly boring town, where not a great deal happened, encouraged me to be more escapist, more imaginative, and more of a daydreamer.
I’m really into football, gadgets, adventurous activities, and cooking new, creative recipes right now – but you’ll never catch me being boring.
You can end up living your life pretty incrementally, and that’s boring.
I lead a very boring life.
When you start using test audiences, it becomes more scientific than it is about the work itself, and that’s boring.
I never work out. I think it is boring, so I run.
Put your own twist to it. That’s how you say relevant. Or things get old and boring.
Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don’t realize it. It’s very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.
You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you’re going to think pretty soon, ‘Well, what’s their secret? What is their problem?’ Maybe, ‘What is their secret?’ is another way of saying, ‘What is their problem?’ There’s got to be some issue, or you’ve got a totally boring book!
‘Middle class’ used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the time they first started work on through retirement and until their deaths. No longer.
If you’re driving around or at home with the stereo blasting pure dance track, it gets boring within about 15 minutes. It doesn’t work at home like it does in a nightclub. You’ve got no atmosphere.
My understanding of this life is that you tour and play for years and years, have some longevity and a steady career. That may sound boring, but I always thought that was less depressing than being a one-hit wonder.
Boring people are a reflection of boring people.
For most people, life would be boring without meaningful work.
If you only ever heard Lady Gaga, she’s the most boring singer in the world.
I think if everyone looked the same, it would be a bit boring.
I like boring things.
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.
I’d like to think that the boring lady who’s talking to me now is a lot sexier and more interesting than the one who’s doing NPR. You know, studious and reserved, and – I bet you’re a lot of fun at a party.
You can’t just talk politics all the time – it’s boring.
Coming tight was boring to me, just the face… it didn’t have enough information.
It’s nice not to be too boring.
I always told my children when they whined… Only the boring are bored.
There’s a constant tension between the excitement of new people and security with one person. If you go with excitement, you create chaos; you hurt people. There’s jealousy, and it gets very messy. If you have security, it can be boring, and you die inside because of all the opportunities missed.
Debates are boring.
I wouldn’t want to be in a Lisa episode. They’re kind of boring. Maybe a Homer one would be better.
Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don’t take yourself seriously, or you’ll become affected, pompous and boring.
Brunch is boring, but that’s part of the charm of it.
I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.
It never gets boring for me because there’s so many different things to explore in the studio. The studio’s become the sanctuary that people have come in and found new things out about themselves, as weird as that sounds. But it’s true, I’m no different. I’ve made some crazy hard records, and I’ve made a jazz album.
People say, ‘Pep won in Barca, but it was boring,’ or, ‘Pep won in Bayern, but it was boring.’ I understand that. But games won, goals scored, goals conceded, titles… sorry, guys, it was good!
Sunday night is curry night. I always order a spinach paneer and a chicken tikka. There’s usually something good on TV like ‘Mr Selfridge’ or ‘Downton Abbey,’ so I’ll watch them before I have to think about blowdrying my hair and all the other boring stuff us girls have to do!
When you’re young it’s boring to be a keeper.
I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it’s boring. I think that’s what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he’s always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow.
Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you’ve got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn’t call it gestural crap.
I’m not comfortable with just me, me, me. That’s boring.
Villains are very, very boring to do. They’re so much easier than heroes.
Without romance, films will be boring. I doubt if people now understand romance, though they may claim it otherwise. I am very romantic in real life.
It’s a personality trait: from the very beginning, I knew what I was concentrating on. I’m only doing the kernel – I always found everything around it to be completely boring.
I thought that subtitles are boring because they’re there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.
If the artist isn’t having a great day or finds it all boring, my role becomes that of a coach. Getting the very best out of the artist. Helping them perform at their very best when it’s game time. One way to get them there is to bring them out of their comfort zones.
I don’t care if people think I’m boring.
The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements.
Going to a pub when you’re not drinking is pretty boring.
I make commercial films only. I don’t make small, boring films.
I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions.
To me, the difference between New York and London is that things are boring and staid in London.
You’ve got to stay focused without being boring – because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Skinny, but dull.
The two hours onstage is great. But I can only play a show and then take a night off. I have to sing for two hours, and then I’ve gotta rest it for a night. So it’s the other 46 hours that are just boring as heck.
Plumbing is usually boring.
The good thing about flying solo is it’s never boring.
I find it difficult to watch myself… I find it boring.
Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.
I’m a boring guy. I don’t play golf. I read, but how many books can I read?
Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is ‘boring.’ The future is going to be boring.
I feel like, sometimes, characters that are just good and nice can seem boring or uninteresting.
I’ve had plenty of good times and have settled peacefully into quite a boring existence that I love. I had enough fireworks and chaos. It is a blissful boring life, believe me.
I am boring. I am boring!
Doing the same character over and over, it gets boring.
The most entertaining songs don’t always come from a nice place. In songs where I think I’m being really sensitive, they seem quite boring actually. I’ve found that the songs that come out of nastier, more misanthropic places are better.
My favorite all-time artist… I would say, I think that must be Sigur Ros, I love that band. It’s like going to the stars for me. When I put the music from Jonsi or Sigur Ros on, it’s so relaxing, it’s warm and it never gets boring to listen to, you always hear new things. Yeah, that must be my favorite band.
Modeling isn’t boring.
Where writers are from is one of the world’ s most boring topics. Where we’re born, gender or race, wealth or poverty – those are the things we spend time talking about. Stop trying to label me. I’m a writer. Worry about whether I’m any good!
It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
I don’t want to compare my city to Zurich; thank God we’re not that boring. Rio is advancing fast, but we’re at a different phase in our civilization.
People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.
When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It’s not very interesting. I don’t want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France.
I’ve found that if you just try to make the film you want, you’ll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, you’re going to make really boring films.
Sometimes I wonder if the world is too interesting and too boring at the same time.
For me, it’s very hard to train too much, just sparring, sparring, sparring. It’s boring.
I don’t like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, ‘Blah blah blah movies.’ I find it incredibly boring.
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.
You have to have passion for a subject to write about it. You can’t expect your readers to feel any excitement if it’s nothing but a boring writing exercise for you.
As soon as things become predictable, they become boring.
I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.
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.
We’re all going to change. Otherwise, it’s boring.
Nothing can ever be a rule in drama, because then you’re saying certain things won’t ever happen, and that would be very boring.
There’s always a concern as an actor that you’ll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.
I’m told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.
There was a time when people were like, ‘Oh my God, Sheamus’ character is boring.’ Well, when you’re just in wrestling matches all the time, and you’re not doing character stuff, then it can be a bit monotonous.
Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!
Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that world. I do not want to be the person I am now in that world then. None of the forms nostalgia can take fits. I found childhood boring. I was glad it was over.
Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.
Certain kinds of people will always have an issue with my music. But that’s fine; it’s OK. I don’t want to be the McDonald’s of music. I don’t want to not turn anyone off. If you were everybody’s cup of tea, you’d probably be boring.
I told my staff that I’m so boring that I didn’t even know I was boring.
When I’m sitting at home in the off season and I don’t have anything to do, I watch tennis on my computer. It’s kind of boring. It’s something to do.
I’m just a believer in keeping all of the creative brain cells moving and working even when you’re not working because the inevitable loneliness and boring drought in the actor’s world, it can eat you alive.
I’m like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I’m very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.
Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?
It is a boring life if you stick to all the rules.
When you’re from a boring town, you have to find things to do. It’s funny: I always knew I wanted to make music, so I was always kind of ahead of my peers. I had an MP3 player by the time I was in the fourth grade.
Sadly, I do my homework. I’ve a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I’ll read C. Fred Bergsten’s defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It’s embarrassing to admit.
Any abhorrent behavior is more interesting to me. I’m always amazed when somebody asks me, ‘Why don’t you write something about nice people?’ Because nice people are boring, that’s why.
If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it’s going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can’t skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what’s going on.
I find talking about acting very boring, having to come out with platitudes about how terribly nice everyone is. I would much rather just do it.
The sad thing is that I feel so boring because ‘Twilight’ is literally how every conversation I have these days begins – whether it’s someone I’m meeting for the first time or someone I just haven’t seen in a while. The first thing I want to say to them is, ‘It’s insane! And, as a person, I can’t do anything!’
I know it’s such a boring interview sometimes with us at ‘American Horror Story’, but I just can’t say a word. I would certainly love to be back, that’s for sure. It’s such a great job.
I’m pretty boring with pizza toppings. I only ever eat margherita. If it’s ever anything else then I’ll just go ‘mmm’, pretend to eat it, then throw it in the bin.
In science, every question answered leads to 10 more. I love that science can never, ever be finished. From a young age, people think, ‘Science is hard and boring.’ We don’t tell children, ‘Yes, you have to learn these formulae and theorems, but then you go on to learn about nuclear reactions and stars.’
Human mind has way too many shades. It would be so boring if this world was all sugar and gloss, just happy, colourful lives. People singing songs is not always the reality. Just like happiness and love, people also feel wrath, jealousy and vengeance!
We’ve made elevator music of Jesus Christ. We’ve made Him the most boring, bland, blah person; and He was the most revolutionary man.
There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don’t want to focus on boring people.
The Cold War was a boring thing. Nobody gets better for it. Tremendous money is wasted. Our lives get more difficult. We look at each other as enemies. What’s good in that? In any case, I will do anything in my power in order to stop another Cold War, with the U.S. or any other country in the world.
An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God – that’d be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that’s called acting… It’s a challenge.
In India, there is a psychological problem that movies going to film festivals are boring. It is a problem with exhibitors.
If you wanted to watch me work, it would be totally boring. It would look like a Warhol film where nothing happens. I sit for 24 hours, then I scratch myself.
I can see that the tennis for the fans could be a bit boring, and these days you have these new modern things which you can do, and you have a lot of time, because you just play a match, and practise, and many times in between you can bring many things to the fans.
To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of ‘disinterest’ strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.
Eating vegetarian doesn’t mean you have to eat boring, humdrum dishes.
If you don’t care for the villain, if you don’t love him and hate him at the same time, then he’s just boring.
I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.
I’m very boring. But I’m a bit obsessed with women that are so incredibly solid in their shoes that they don’t care what other people think of them. I just think there’s something so interesting about that kind of confidence.
Easter may seem boring to children, and it is blessedly unencumbered by the silly fun that plagues Christmas. Yet it contains the one thing needful for every human life: the good news of Resurrection.
I am sorry, but recording an album is just hard work; tedious, repetitive, and not very fun at all. Mixing is a bit better, but still pretty boring.
