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I think privacy is important, and it's important you don't bore people with your own boring self.
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
I like to go full bore into something. If you have a backup plan, then you've already admitted defeat.
People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
Of course, it's no fun getting old and getting sick and dying; we all know that's coming, and it's a bore.
Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore.
Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
I prefer to write about what we refer to as 'the supernatural' versus everyday life. Humans, by themselves, bore me.
Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV.
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore me.
I didn't get fat even when I was pregnant. You have to work very hard at staying slim, and it's a bore. But it's worth it.
I have three pieces of advice I want you to remember: Don't ever grow up. Don't become a bore. Don't let The Man get to you.
If Romney were a chair, he'd be a squishy, expensively upholstered easy chair that bore the imprint of whoever last sat on it.
Physical violence is always a bore in films today. We don't see how much it hurts. We don't learn the true consequences of it.
I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.
If you're bored, it's because someone else is fulfilling his dream. Become a bore. It's the most interesting thing you'll ever do.
People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you endlessly with their broken hearts.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it.
I can't stand these autobiographies that start with, you know, 'I was born in Acton, and I went to such and such a school.' They just bore me.
I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English, and then just art. Then I passed out.
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
Of course, bankers were always interested in making money. But when bankers had clients, they bore some responsibility for the clients' welfare.
I don't want to bore people with things that don't matter to them. I want to share parts of my life that are universally true with other people.
Once you realise you're carrying around lots of pain, I think go to therapy so you release yourself. You don't want to be a problem bore, poor me.
Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.
Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the grooves they create.
It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.
We estimated that we could make one of four cylinders with 4 inch bore and 4 inch stroke, weighing not over two hundred pounds, including all accessories.
The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.
In Australia you can be a little bit more attacking, in places on the subcontinent you've got to find ways to get batsmen out, you might have to bore them out.
I don't know - sometimes I catch myself being dark, and it's annoying. I think, 'Get over it.' I bore myself. But sometimes, like everybody, I'm sure I am obsessive.
I feel like it's my duty to share my experience with self-acceptance. I don't want to bore people and talk about myself, but the biggest struggle for me was my body.
I love the physical thing of being on the earth that bore you. I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.
I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise.
My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the brunt of so many things in society.
A lot of the things that bore adults don't bore children, and people forget that. In some ways, boredom is a projection of adults because we can't remember what childhood was like.
We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips.
Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may have to put up with tedious people, but not in novels.