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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You know, when I put out records that may not work or connect with the audience, it's because I'm pushing myself as an artist creatively, because I'm just bored doing what everyone wants me to do.
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People will not be bored. They may listen politely at a dinner table to boasts and personalities, life history, etc. But in print they choose their own companions, their own subjects. They was to be amused or benefitted
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I'm so secluded. Very alone.
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Scoring goals is the best feeling you can have. I always look up at the stand for my family straight afterwards; it means everything to me that they travel to every game.
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In '83 I started travelling round Europe with my slide show. It wasn't until I moved to Europe and got accepted in a big way in Berlin in the '90s that I got acceptance by the big art world in New York. I didn't really get to be known, or in the market, til '93 in New York.
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I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.
