Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Bored Quotes from famous persons: Jason Isbell, Sade Adu, Godfrey Hounsfield, Prince Charles, Don Ellis. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Bored Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.
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I don’t get easily bored. I’m not that kind of person.
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On a farm, you can get very bored.
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You don’t want to see me all the time. You get bored.
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When you have an iPad and 75 books on it, it’s so easy to go, ‘I’m bored, I’m just going to read something else.’
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School bored me. Being educated and being intelligent are two different things. I thought I was smart enough. And I wanted to be an entertainer. I stopped going to school as a way of saying I was mature, a way of saying I was going to choose who I was going to become.
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We’ve worked on hundreds of cars and there’s always something different so it’s hard to get bored of individual vehicles.
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There’s a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don’t write a boring story about a boring place.
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I started modeling at 14. It’s simple. You respond to what the photographer wants and wear other people’s ideas. I got bored with it, though, so I went to university.
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I always get bored with my hair. That’s why I would always change it throughout my career.
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I would get very bored if I just did one thing.
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If you’re not challenged, you’ll get bored.
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I don’t really plan too much ahead when I write, because otherwise, I get kind of bored.
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If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you’re writing, ask yourself what’s bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
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One thing any backpacker will tell you is that it’s tedious and monotonous. You’re bored sometimes, so you really have to make the fun in your head.
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I love going to work out now. It gets out aggression and my trainer really shakes it up so I don’t get bored.
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I don’t like to stagnate. I’d get bored doing similar films.
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My acting career wasn’t going where I wanted it to. I wasn’t getting good parts. I got so bored with myself that I started writing.
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I’m not bored; I’m not a guy who has nothing to do.
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I get a little sick of myself as a solo artist. I get a little bit bored.
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I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop. At the time that I am bored or understand – I use those words interchangeably – another appetite has formed. A lot of people try to think up ideas. I’m not one. I’d rather accept the irresistible possibilities of what I can’t ignore.
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I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that’s too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.
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I never get bored of a workout, because I feel great after a session.
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I know I’m never going to be as successful as my dad, but I get bored doing nothing. I couldn’t go from vacation to vacation and have no motivation.
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I doubt the terrorists saw 9/11 as a teaching opportunity. And we’re not really a culture geared to anything as humble as ‘learning.’ But I was disappointed in how quickly everyone wanted to get back to normal. It was as if we watched terrorism on TV for a while, then got bored and turned back to ‘American Idol.’
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You can get a bit bored of finding out about yourself. I know nothing about politics, for instance. There’s nothing that’s stopped me picking up a newspaper in the past, and it’s something I really should start to do.
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I was really, really stagnating and getting bored in the steady work of television and didn’t really know what movies I would be making that Hollywood would be making, and then I went on to ‘Game of Thrones,’ and it was just like, everything I’ve been waiting to do was handed to me by really nice people.
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I don’t like to get bored and don’t like to repeat myself.
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When I moved out to Los Angeles to get some film and television work, and couldn’t get any… I became a little isolated, a little terrified, and it’s a good place to get writing, because you’re so bored. So I wrote a few screenplays, and people notice those.
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Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, I thought maybe I could write a mystery series about a midwife in Elizabethan England. I had an elaborately convoluted title and an elaborately convoluted plotline, and at that point I got stupendously bored.
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Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they’ll enjoy it.
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Well, I motorcycle, I hunt, fish, I do all that. I keep busy. I’m never bored. I’ve never been bored.
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At the end of the ’90s, I was very bored with the usual models, so I discovered a new generation that impressed me with their fresh look. I still keep working with models like Gisele Bundchen and Kate Moss, and I am still looking for new, interesting faces. Life is about discovery, and you should never stop searching.
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Getting bored is not allowed.
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Rap music started because they were bored of other music so they created something really new.
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I’m addicted to change and therefore I get bored easily. Results have always motivated me, which has led me to developing ways to measure things that historically have not been measurable.
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Follow me around. I don’t care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They’d be very bored.
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I don’t know how to get bored. I need to learn to rest.
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I’m so bored of all these girls who have written about 20 books by the time they’re 25.
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I like to warm them up with stand-up, get them into my world and tone, and then bring other characters on. There’s so much you can do theatrically on stage. You keep changing the direction and angles, and then people don’t get bored.
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There’s a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don’t understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don’t understand boredom.
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I can’t remember the last time I was bored.
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To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who’s waiting to see the doctor. It’s not the kind of wait where you get bored.
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Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums.
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I was on ‘The O.C.’ and had a small part, which wasn’t very challenging. I was a bit bored, so I started shadowing directors and they finally gave me a shot. From there, it led to directing other television shows. I am trying to direct a feature film, so we’ll see what happens.
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Acting is so much about waiting… waiting for an audition, waiting for the right part to come along. It’s nice to write your own thing, write about what you’re feeling and then go out and perform them. It’s a nice thing to have and not get bored.
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Sometimes you need to get bored but when you get bored you persist in what you’re doing and you get better.
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Every few years, I change my look for the simple reason that I get bored. If you Google Image me, you will see so many different looks: long hair, short hair, clean shaven, beard, etc.
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Since I was a little kid, everybody was paying so much attention to what I looked like, not what I was feeling. You start feeling tired. It’s like eating soup every day. You eat the same soup, and you get bored, so I developed my inner self.
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Teaching’s hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.
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Sometimes, when you have someone behind the counter who’s supposed to assist you and help you out, just being completely bored and uninterested – sometimes it’s a little bit frustrating, you know?
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We can be bought, but we can’t be bored.
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Work is making a living out of being bored.
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I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.
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I guess I get bored easily, and thank God. I don’t want to all my life pound only the same key, although some artists do it very effectively. I’m not trying to denigrate anybody.
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You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.
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I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.
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I like being a storyteller. I’m bored with myself; I like to write about others. I have a lot of names in my songs: Karen, Margaret, Mary Kay. Even if it’s about me, I want to put it through someone else. The music is the soundtrack to the story.
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I’m so much more gratified by my life now that I have an expertise. I wake up every day thinking about a fairly small set of scientific questions all related to the psychology of achievement, and I’ll never get bored of those questions. That’s something I couldn’t say to you when I was 22 or 25 or probably even 31.
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I get bored really fast.
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I’m a bit bored of going to the gym! I’m like, ‘Someone put me out of my misery – I can’t do this anymore!’
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Racing‘s been good to me, but I’m bored of it.
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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with keeping myself entertained, on the assumption that if I get bored, my readers are going to be even more bored.
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When I was a kid, we sat around the house. If I got bored, I’d have to figure out something to do.
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Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.
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I love information. I can never get enough. I get bored easily.
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I love to act. And between action and cuts, when you work for somebody great, it’s wonderful, and I still love it. The moment where you create, that instant is still magic to me. But, all the rest, I get bored with it – all the waiting, and the fact that you have to make appearances, that you have to share your life.
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I’ve never been bored in live theater.
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I was an electrician, and I started acting as a hobby because I needed a distraction – I was bored! And only when I started did I think, ‘Sheesh, what have I gotten into?’ I had to go after it fully; I just had to.
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Whilst I’ve got these opportunities, and whilst I still love doing it, acting is something I can see myself continuing forever until I get bored of it.
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If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I’ve got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
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I was bored one day, so my dad took me to this acting school. I liked it more than having fun – I liked it for an actual job.
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It’s street theater. You have to make it entertaining so people don’t get bored and walk away.
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I’m bored. I’m not unprofessional. I’m just bored.
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Dynamic change is always my favorite thing. As soon as I feel like I’m doing all of the same stuff over and over again, I’m bored and sad.
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I get bored quite easily, so I like to keep my mind entertained by challenging myself.
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I find that, for me, personally – and this is in everyday life – if I’m not growing, if I can’t be stimulated in a conversation, then I am bored. And I’m not good when I’m bored.
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I was getting a little bored with my hair. It’s kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It’s amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.
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I get bored very quickly.
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I hate doing interviews. I get really bored talking about me.
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For a woman who’s a widow and pretty much a loner, I can walk out, and I’m surrounded by NYU kids. The energy jumps off the sidewalks, and I never feel sad or bored.
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My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to read early on – not only in English, but in Hindi, too. My teachers didn’t like the fact that I was reading more quickly than they were teaching, and as a consequence, I would sometimes get bored in class.
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I feel like I’m the most creative when I’m bored.
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I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That’s just so not me.
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I get bored easily.
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I need some challenges in love or I’m bored.
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If you don’t want to get bored with what you’re doing, you have to change.
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If you are not bored by life, and your primary motto is enthusiasm and if you like your friends, family around you, it all translates into your designs. That’s what keeps the creativity alive.
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The only rule is never be bored.
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Help is a conversation. If one side talks too much, the other side will get bored. So make sure you help back when you can.
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Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!
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I got quite bored when I was hanging in the air. I want to do it without a parachute next.
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I’m twitchy. I think I’ve got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very… well, I guess ‘bored’ is the word.
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I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn’t doing.
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That’s the problem with ADHD: I have no focus; I get bored.
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That’s one of the great things about acting – you get to pretend you’re somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.
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Basically, I’m a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you thing, ‘really, what an ordinary person‘.
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Probably the TV show I’ve watched the most is ‘How It’s Made’ on the History Channel. I could watch 24 hours of ‘How It’s Made’ and never get bored.
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Every party is the same, too many people, too little food, and you have to wait around. I’m extremely bored with parties.
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You have to refresh yourself with anything that you do all the time and re-tweak it, so the level of integrity associated with what people have learned to love is still the same. And so we don’t get bored and fall asleep.
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School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.
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I get bored very fast, so I would like to do something new. Something like a restaurant is attractive. It does seem to be a very tough job though.
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I love working. I feel guilty about doing nothing; I get bored.
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When I watch a movie, I don’t make a sound or move. The more I’m into the movie, the more bored I look.
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The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you’re bored, because that boredom will show in your work.
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Auditions are just torture. I’m trying to get better at it. It’s a very difficult thing to do. You go into a tiny room with a camera with somebody who is doing this with 100 other people, and they’re so bored, and then you have to be like, ‘Hey! I’m gonna show you what I got!’
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For years, there was no man in the house when my husband was off on law cases in the Far East. Without writing, I would have been bored and unfaithful, maybe both, and the children would have been hideously over-protected.
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As soon as I know how to do something, I usually get bored with it.
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Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don’t have a change, you’re bored. It’s the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about.
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I was really bored, pretty antisocial, and not much of a joiner, and people thought that was a problem. I hated high school. In a way, it was good… I think, for a writer, it’s good to be comfortable with being on the outside.
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I’m never bored.
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I’m never bored.
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I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I’ve taken it out of the slideshow.
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Most filmmakers aren’t very interested in history. They worry constantly that people will be bored.
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In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like hipster bars and farmers‘ markets and indie-rock festivals. Like everyone else, they want the vibrant and they will not be denied.
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One of the most common criticisms of romance is that the genre is too prescribed: If every romance novel ends happily ever after, don’t the stories lack complexity? Don’t the readers get bored?
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I’m getting bored performing the same songs over and over. Songwriting comes and goes.
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Eventually you get bored and you want to work.
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I don’t care if a flight attendant is fat as long as she doesn’t sneak back to the galley for a gossip when she should be pushing down the food trolley. I get annoyed when the food trays are slapped down on my seat by bored and disinterested men and women. I look for warmth and comfort, not cold efficiency.
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I love being in Hyderabad, as I never get bored like I do in Mumbai.
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I’ve purposely stayed away from reading much about postmodern theory, and most everything I have read just bored me to tears. I don’t think anybody’s written about it, or very few have, with any verve.
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Apart from hard work and being in the right projects, you need to re-invent yourself. I’d be bored doing the same thing over and over, and the audience wouldn’t like it, too. The trick is to break that monotony.
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The subjects I wanted to write about – the mystery of the human soul, evil – didn’t interest newspapers, and news reporting bored me.
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Luckily, the public school system that I was in had a really great drama program, so I plunged into that. It really sort of kept me afloat because I was bored in school.
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I do films which get me out of my comedian routine so that I don’t get bored being a stand-up comedian. And with films, it’s here today, gone tomorrow. So stand-up comedy is here to stay for me.
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Yet there are some people – Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he’s a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I’m doing it right now and you all seem bored.
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One of my biggest problems is I get bored too easily, and I like to experiment too much, to the point where I confuse myself and I confuse my fans.
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I was working at the NSA. I don’t know, I was just bored. I just knew that’s not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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I don’t like to be bored.
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When I graduated high school, I bought a guitar and, at first, didn’t really think I’d get into the songwriting thing as much as I did. But after learning a few songs of other people’s to play on the guitar, I got bored with that and just started writing songs on my own, and that’s kinda how it came about.
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If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they’d get bored in a day. ‘Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here’s Matt researching in aisle six of his local library‘. A few hours of that and they’d go home.
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I’ve always really enjoyed writing different things because I get bored very easily.
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Just because I might be bored doesn’t mean I have to look boring. I’d rather look fabulous, like I’m having a great time.
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I found at a certain point in my acting career that I was just bored. I had too much energy. I had too many ideas.
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By the time I went to Yale, I’d been acting for a long time and I was really tired of it. I was restless – and a little bored – and I was really eager to investigate different parts of myself.
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I am truly bored with 99 per cent of conventional novels. I do think it’s a somewhat desiccated form.
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I’m usually working either on a picture book and a young adult book, or a middle grade book and a young adult book. When I get bored with one, I move to the other, and then I go back.
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My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I’m not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.
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A woman has so many facets, and when you create an image, you have to play with all the different moments of your femininity, not just one thing, because everybody can get bored.
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I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it’s something I’ve been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it’s because I’m intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.
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You don’t burn out from going too fast. You burn out from going too slow and getting bored.
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I’m someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.
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You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.
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I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren’t outrageous but then act like they are.
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I was an only child and was obviously really bored, so I would entertain my parents by imitating cartoon voices like Scooby Doo, Boo Boo and others.
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I have two main hair people I work with. They’re always with me. I’m like, ‘I’m bored! I wanna change my hair!’ That’s the good thing about a weave. You can do whatever with it.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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I get bored quickly. Always have. Short attention span.
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I think that I get bored easily with things.
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I have to be absolutely drawn to the project. If you’re ashamed or bored by it at the beginning, it’s going to be a pretty nightmarish thing.
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As far as pleasures, you’ve got to have limits. You shouldn’t have too much of good things, so you’ll always have a desire for more and you won’t get bored.
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There’s a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along.
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I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.
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If you’re happy with what you’re doing, then you don’t get bored.
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People who find that they have a lot of drama in their relationships need to allow themselves to get ‘bored’. At first, it will feel excruciating, and they may find themselves confronting a very real fear underneath all that drama: being truly close and therefore vulnerable to another human being.
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I don’t get bored.
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I can be bought, but not bored.
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I like to entertain in all aspects. When you’re with somebody and you’re out, you want to be entertained. I like to be around entertaining people. Even if they’re bored, and you’re in a convalescent home, there’s something entertaining about that, in a way.
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People get bored very quickly.
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It’s great to surprise people. If you do the same thing all over again, which people expect you to do, they’re going to get bored.
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My vacations last one hour. Then I get bored, impatient.
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I always knew that I was kind of bored; the regular life of a child didn’t fit me.
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I was really bored and unhappy in school, and I used to act out and do horrible things.
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Sometimes I get kind of bored if I go like a month or so and I’m not doing anything. At first I’m like, ‘Cool, I’ll have a little time off and I’ll get to hang out with friends,’ but then after a little while goes by I’m like, ‘Oh,’ and I really wish that I could go back and start doing work again.
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I cannot stand superheroes. I do not understand any of its appeal. It has just bored me to death since I was a little kid.
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I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.
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True confession time: I never know where a book is going. I get a gut feeling the story is there, then pursue it with the enthusiasm of a hunting tiger on a trail. If I knew where I was going, I’d get bored out of my mind and stop writing.
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While my friends were outside practising to be Tony Hawk or Michael Jordan, I was inside playing Mozart, increasingly disillusioned and bored.
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I’m big into not drawing conclusions for people. I think that’s what makes for the most exciting, compelling films. I get bored when the politics of the filmmaker are the subject of the film that I see.
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I get bored of music really easily, so I always try and make music that makes sense, but then it’s just a little bit wrong.
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Poetry has never been written with the intention of making young people irritated, bored, anxious or humiliated, and yet the consequence of the test and exam system often does just that.
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I was crushingly bored talking about politics 30 hours a week.
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If I played characters who were like me, I’d be super bored.
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I don’t want to wake up and be bored. That’s probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I’ve been on for a long time and had success with? I don’t plan on giving it up any time soon.
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I literally have a song about how bored I was and it’s actually a really cool song that’s interesting because I created something out of nothing.
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I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I’m repeating something I’m good at. So I’m always looking for new challenges.
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I guess to long story short it, I was really just working day jobs when I moved to New York and trying to pay the bills, working in restaurants and as a receptionist, and at one of those reception jobs, I just got so bored, I started a blog, honing my writing skills a little bit.
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If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they’d get bored in a day.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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In some of the great cities of Europe – Paris, Vienna, Prague, and Brussels – tourists bored with life above ground can descend below. All these cities have sewer museums and tours, and all expose their underbelly willingly to the curious. But not London, arguably the home of the most splendid sewer network in Europe.
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I get bored of vacation.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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I was really bored of making downtempo albums.
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If you’re bored and you look bored, that’s your fault.
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Many of us grew up with a kind of puritanism against shopping. But shopping can be much more than how it is cast. If you are bored or you have problems, it can be a way of lifting your spirits, by doing something light and superficial. Why not?
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I will say that when I first came out to the States to work on ‘Jericho,’ that was the only time that I’ve ever been frightened about a job, because in America they tell stories over such a long time, and I was petrified that I’d get bored.
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I grew up in a city, I’m a city person – I go on holiday and I’m bored.
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I find myself thinking: Oh God, now what? I always have to have a new plan, otherwise I get very, very bored.
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I really look forward to that opportunity to be a student and discover things. That keeps it interesting for me. And I sometimes get easily bored, and there are still some things I wanna talk about instead of repeating something.
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Sometimes I think that we are living in a simulation controlled by the reigns of a destructive child who often gets bored or distracted, leaving us trapped inside feedback loops for years at a time.
