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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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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As a child, one of my defense mechanisms was to try to be funny. My mom tried to nurture that by putting me in acting class. But I got bored when we stopped pretending to be trees and actually had to work.
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Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.
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I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.
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I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually barely, how much work it is to be a teacher. It's an incredible amount of work.
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I want a girl who's passionate, driven - a girl who believes in herself.
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I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.
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I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.
