P. D. James Quotes
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I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.
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I want variety. I certainly don't want any kind of hype if I can avoid it. I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety, I suppose, because - like a lot of people - I'm easily bored.
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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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Meditation isn't snake oil. For some people, meditation might be the most efficient way to reduce stress and cultivate mindfulness. But it isn't a panacea. If you don't meditate, there's no need to stress out about it.
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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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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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It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.
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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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I don't know how to get bored. I need to learn to rest.
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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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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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I got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He'd take me in his car. I'd hear Carlos Santana. I'd hear Queen. I'd hear all these Turkish people, like, bands that he grew up listening to. He was in a band as well.
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Singing in public makes me very uncomfortable.
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One of the things that was probably to Dad's discredit was that he was never a fund-raiser. But he didn't live in an era of TV ads.
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Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.
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Whatever else I am now, I'm never bored.
