Jonathan Lethem Quotes
I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.Jonathan Lethem
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I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.
Laura Dekker -
You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.
Cameron Diaz -
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.
Damian Marley -
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.
Earl King -
My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.
Vikram Seth -
You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.
Felix Dennis
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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.
Vikram Seth -
I'm never bored.
Jack Prelutsky -
I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.
Ina May Gaskin -
You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.
Natasha Leggero -
I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.
Gary Coleman -
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Samuel Butler
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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.
Ian Harding -
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.
Samuel Hoffenstein -
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.
Rachel Johnson -
And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.
Zoe Kazan -
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.
Oliver Reed -
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.
Ian Gomez
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No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote.
Gary Ackerman -
I will offer a prayer to the Trinity, May the Eternal grant me to praise thee! In the present course, dangerous Our work; destruction is a slight impulse of wrath. They reckon of the saints a tribe, King of heaven, may I be eloquent about thee! Before the separation of my soul from my flesh.
Taliesin -
I started my career wanting to make a 'James Bond' movie, and I couldn't get hired! I made 'The Bourne Identity,' and ultimately the impact of that film was that it changed the 'James Bond' franchise.
Doug Liman -
We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a little boogie woogie. The big bands.
Jay McShann -
I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website - but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
Banksy -
I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.
Jonathan Lethem