I have a fascination with the nasty things people do to each other and the way relationships go wrong, and how there can be this very dark underbelly to seemingly normal, mundane domestic life. They’re the stories in the newspapers I always find interesting. That’s not a very nice thing to admit to, is it?
I grew up in a super suburban place where the mundane middle-class issues were similar to what Ray Davies was singing about. All the topics he was singing about were middle-class woes and humanitarian woes – human-being woes.
It’s embarrassing that we’re in the 21st century and we don’t even know what makes gravity work. I’m getting older and thinking maybe I should tackle more than the mundane. I may fail, but at least I will have tried.
Even the mundane task may have something to teach you – especially if it’s a task you haven’t performed before.
Communicating with people was found to be like suffering judgment. In fact, it was almost impossible for me to dwell upon earthly matters, and equally impossible for me to bring the mind down to mundane thoughts and general conversations.
Newt Gingrich’s rhetorical tics are well-known – his fondness for the word ‘frankly,’ his eagerness to frame even the most mundane development in dramatic world-historical terms, and his eagerness to accuse his enemies of practicing ‘machine’ politics.
I didn’t like mundane life.
Life has to be everything. It can’t be all sad. It can’t be all peaches and cream. Because the lows have you appreciate the highs. And the highs give you perspective on the lows. If it’s not everything, it becomes flat or mundane.
Francois Truffaut’s ‘The Soft Skin’ starts with a very mundane scene of a family and a man driving to the airport. Yet the music is like a thriller, and you don’t understand why. It’s not until later that you learn it’s because the movie is a thriller.
I’ll be, like, grocery shopping or doing something totally mundane, and once a day, you’ll hear a Cyndi Lauper song on the radio. It is astounding what an icon she is, not just in popular music but in popular culture.
If you’re doing creative work, that work should never feel trivial – even if what you’re doing is for hire or lightly intended. Even the mundane doesn’t have to be trivial.
Where the grifter is shameless, the grafter shrinks from exposure, which could only endanger the racket. He is greedy but not creatively ambitious. He toils in mundane self-dealing, insider trading, bribe taking, witness tampering, and other forms of workaday corruption.
The Internet makes writing about restaurants easier and more interesting in quite a few ways, one of the main ones being to do with the mundane business of checking what’s on the menu.
I end up talking about really mundane things with my fans, and then they’re kind of like, ‘This is boring. I want to go talk to somebody else.’ I think I bore my fans to death by over-talking to them.
The ’90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets; you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.
Banning cash transactions over R3 lakh will allow banks to diversify their banking activities into new areas and not mundane ones.
The daily work on special effects is fairly mundane.
My mentor in college was Stephen Shore. I loved his color palettes and his taking mundane things but finding them fascinating.
Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.
With larger-than-life films, you are lifted from your mundane, ordinary life because you empathise with the hero, and people see themselves in him.
We always see Aung San as a strong, tough woman. There are two stories running in parallel. You see the contradictions between the East and the West, and you see someone who does mundane and normal things – someone who’s supposed to be a housewife – and then someone who’s become important and imprisoned.
I don’t know if you saw, in the first ‘Celebrity Big Brother,’ Jack Dee was in it, and tried to escape by digging a hole with a spoon. That just made me think: that approach would be perfect on ‘Taskmaster’ – trying to achieve something impossible with something mundane.
I used to tweet about the most mundane things – like ‘I just bought a soya latte’ – but now I try and make it a bit more interesting.
Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people’s daily lives with a sense of achievement.
When you become famous at 19, it does a number in your head, so you find romance in the mundane – isn’t it so great that a guy would pick me up at my house and take me to a restaurant?
One of the major complaints for long-running shows is that they become mundane.
I have enjoyed everything that I have done during this journey in a certain way trying to break through the mundane way of philosophies in designs and going towards my instincts.
I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences.
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