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Rachel Johnson Journalist
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"Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring."

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Tim Wu Legal Scholar
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"I'm afraid when too many people know too much about you, it actually makes us all a lot more boring because you're afraid to express yourself."

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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
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"Evil is just sort of ultimately boring. The good thing is just complicated. It's more provocative to me and more stimulating to me."

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Simone de Beauvoir Philosopher, Writer
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"Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me."

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Robin Morgan Feminist, Writer
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"guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring."

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"Many parts of my life are perfectly ordinary, if that's what you mean. One could even call it boring, but that's what I like about it."

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Lara Stone Model
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"I did easy yoga and I found it a bit boring. I'm now doing a more difficult one now and I'm enjoying it a bit more. I occasionally still work out with my trainer Tracy Anderson."

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Katie Stelmanis Singer-songwriter
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"I love playing the new songs live. I hate playing a new song and then having to play an old song again, it feels really boring."

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Freeman Dyson Theoretical Physicist
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"The world is just - it's wonderful when you look at all the detail. It's just amazing. Nothing is boring if you look at it carefully."

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