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!
