Bored Quotes
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I always think, OK, this is good, but I'll do it better next time. "And so we beat on, boats against the current. . ." It may not be the recipe for a life of contentment, but that imperfectability is what makes writing such an engaging endeavor, something you can do for the rest of your life and not get bored.
Debra Dean -
I'm realizing now that I was always really curious about inviting people into a space and sharing information that way. But I didn't have any context for it. It was just fun because I was homeschooled and lonely and bored, and I'd do things to get people to come over.
Esperanza Spalding
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I went into acting because I'm easily bored. Acting seemed to give vent to a lot of different feelings.
Chad Everett -
If I ever get bored with golf, I'm going to start over and play lefthanded.
Michelle Wie -
The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.
Esther Duflo -
Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.
Nick Harkaway -
I was thinking too fast. It seems like a person has the tendency to get bored, because he always wants to try to do all these accomplishments.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience -
I think that very often younger writers don't appreciate how much hard work is involved in writing. The part of writing that's magic is the thinnest rind on the world of creation. Most of a writer's life is just work. It happens to be a kind of work that the writer finds fulfilling in the same way that a watchmaker can happily spend countless hours fiddling over the tiny cogs and bits of wire. ... I think the people who end up being writers are people who don't get bored doing that kind of tight focus in small areas.
Diane Ackerman
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The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work.
Benjamin Bratt -
I think that I get bored easily with things.
Lauren Conrad -
Cocaine is yucky. I did it once: I was at a party; I was bored. I was like, 'Alright, I'll do a line.' Then I was just bored longer.
Bonnie McFarlane -
If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely.
Ethel Waters -
Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.
Albert Camus -
My acting career wasn't going where I wanted it to. I wasn't getting good parts. I got so bored with myself that I started writing.
Susan Strasberg
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I guess when I'm frightened or in pain or maybe very bored I've tried to hold myself together by imposing a narrative order on the experience as it happens.
Ben Lerner -
If you're bored of the songs, you're bored of the songs. There's not much you can do.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace -
I think I would be bored if I were winning all the time, even though it would be nice.
Mirai Nagasu -
You don't have to be tired and bored. Get interested in something. Get absolutely enthralled in something. Throw yourself into it with abandon.
Norman Vincent Peale -
I used to be the youngest person on the set [of Bored To Death]. Now I'm very often the oldest person on the set. I feel lucky about that, to be honest. Lena [Dunham], by the way is a doll to me. So much fun to work with and really open.
Richard Masur -
Maybe my life isn't all that interesting but at least I'm busy. Busy doesn't mean happy. I know that. But at least I'm not bored. Being bored is the worst.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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There's nothing wrong with being happy somewhere, even if it's the little pond you grew up in, as long as you are in fact comfortable vs. bored.
Carolyn Hax -
Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.
Scott Westerfeld -
If I'm winning, I have to act like I'm not bored. If it's A tough match, I have to act like I'm having A good time. I'm a drama queen.
Serena Williams -
I can't remember the last time I was bored.
Carolyn Murphy