Jonathan Lethem Quotes
I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.
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I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.
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You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.
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I think after a time there won't be anything left to be interesting for mankind. Computers are about to do everything for us. Cellphones are smarter than we are. We'll embrace spirituality because we'll be bored of everything else.
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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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My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.
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You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.
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I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.
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I'm never bored.
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I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.
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You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.
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I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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If there were teenagers who had a video camera and saw what I did on a daily basis, they'd be bored out of their mind.
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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
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When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.
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Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a Mayfair salon, which is much more satisfying, not to mention cheap.
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And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.
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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 get super bored playing bland, normal girls.
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If the leading Negro classes cannot assume and bear the uplift of their own proletariat, they are doomed for all time. It is not a case of ethics; it is a plain case of necessity. The method by which this may be done is, first, for the American Negro to achieve a new economic solidarity.
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I had to let my ego go a long time ago.
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Everybody wants to talk about sectarian conflicts of the war in Iraq, but the fact of the matter is, Sunnis have lived with Shias in harmony more in the confines of Iraq, in that land, than they have been in conflict. That's an historical fact.
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I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.
