Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.
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Related From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles... JONES VERY The simplest conception of the origin and plan of the Iliad must, we think, prove the most correct. ... JONES VERY As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural... JONES VERY We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on wh... JONES VERY Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must b... JONES VERY Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would ha... BEN SHAHN Simon was Simon. They told me I had a very commercial look. DEVIN JOHNSON We're on alert but it's very hard to prevent suicide attacks with hundreds of vehicles on the roads. GENERAL MOHAMMED AKBAR One of the very first serious books I read when I was growing up was 'Atlas Shrugged.' MIKE POMPEO By shipping nuclear waste on trucks and trains and barges, we may very well be creating hundreds, ev... TOM DASCHLE I don't dash it off. I spend dozens or hundreds of hours to get a result that is very subtle, rich a... HOLLY DOWNING I had to learn to dismiss people who would criticize me based on nothing, but I also had to learn no... JUSTIN TRUDEAU There will be hundreds of new companies that will be created to develop these very simple data devic... DAVID ROSE On my second swim at Deception Island, the water was very clear and I was looking at hundreds of wha... LEWIS GORDON PUGH At its best, Purple Ronnie puts little thoughts out there, on very high-volume selling items, that p... GILES ANDREAE I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disab... CHANNING TATUM I have help, but I'm very hands-on in everything I do. I do normal stuff, I'm a normal mothe... KIMORA LEE SIMMONS There's another disaster that could happen very soon. ANGELINA JOLIE Let me tell you, he was a very fair, very shrewd, very bright, very friend, very family-oriented. He... KIRK PURDY I'm so secluded. Very alone. YVES SAINT LAURENT I don't think at first they were taking it very seriously. They just felt there's no way the courts ... DEREK BYRD Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforwa... ZAYN MALIK I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor a... SPIKE LEE It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I ... BILLE AUGUST This was a military organization run on military lines -- the very, very thing that at the time the ... MICHAEL WARE I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am. DAVID CASSIDY Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images... FRANCIS BACON I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these ... JUNOT DIAZ To me, being creative is a very fragile thing. The environment in which one can create is a very par... HOLLY HUNTER But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on ... G.K. CHESTERTON Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforwa... ZAYN MALIK Hundreds of juveniles, from a minimum age of 12 have been detained. The number of 12 to 14 year olds... AVI ZELBA It felt like a very, very weird thing to go on the set on September 13th. I would never want to glor... MIA KIRSHNER No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very ... RACHEL COHN This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him ... VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES We're selling hundreds a day. Everybody feels you have to be part of the MP3 culture. It's very usef... ABE BROWN The GAO report reveals that the (law) has created a millionaires' club of very few corporations whic... CLAY SHAW Hunter meant a lot to me. He was another hero and someone that I got to know very well because I pla... JOHNNY DEPP Computers absolutely changed my life. Before I had a computer, I had never written one thing. Not on... PENN JILLETTE It's a very bittersweet thing for me. If it wasn't for my work, I would probably have run for anothe... PAMELA SMITH Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop o... LARA ST. JOHN would be completed very soon. SHAUL MOFAZ At a very early age I began to thump on the piano alone, and it was not long before I was able to pi... JAMES WELDON JOHNSON But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very domin... BEATRICE WOOD No one except Hollywood stars and very rich Texans wore Indian jewelry. And there was a plethora of ... RUSSELL MEANS And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural w... VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES The very best thing that could happen to a voice, if it shows any promise at all, is when it is very... JESSYE NORMAN God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear. RUBY DEE One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be ver... HARRIET BEECHER STOWE I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, ... SALLY RIDE There are certainly hundreds of individuals who we have been watching very closely and continue to w... CHARLES CLARKE We have no savings and we're essentially moving the airplanes from one very very good base to anothe... HAROLD GEHMAN From what I understand, girls spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars on a dress alone. A lot of thes... CATHY LYONS It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, an... BILLE AUGUST Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the ve... ARISTOTLE We spent $250,000 on an armored bus and hundreds of thousands on security guards, bulletproof vests,... JOEL FOX Of course it's easier, because your pool of applicants is greater. Outside of the very, very rich an... AL WALKER I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would ... HANNAH KENT It was very hot, very rugged and quite inaccessible. But I had a fantastic time. The work is the thi... DOUGRAY SCOTT From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, l... LARA PULVER I am very excited and very pleased, I knew it would be close. I am ready to start another week of ha... LAUREN SMITH Winning the Whitbread was a very major thing for me. I'd always been well reviewed, but this mad... JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT It was very important for me to make that putt and I'm very glad that I did. That helped me a lot wi... MICHELLE WIE My books have occasionally been of mixed success. It's not like I have gone from triumph to triu... KAREN JOY FOWLER I would be reluctant to speak on his behalf of what he has been convinced of or not, but I think we ... LAKHDAR BRAHIMI The venture business is a bit of an apprenticeship business, so the firm I worked for didn't let... FRED WILSON I squeeze my eyes shut and try to reach for him across the hundreds and hundreds of miles, to send m... SUZANNE COLLINS My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very inter... SHIRIN NESHAT I think it was very good for her because she ended up going to high school for only three years and ... ANDREA HALL Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than th... BRIAN ENO I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very ... WILLIAM MORRIS I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alterna... ROBERT ATKINS Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of huma... NATALIE DORMER One thing about me is that I'm very much like the Black Madonna. I love to reinvent myself and t... LIL' KIM I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read the... GAIL Z. MARTIN We're going to bring this thing to a resolution very, very soon, ... We need some time to work [deta... MIKE MOORE A migratory bird that is infected cannot get very far, let alone to Europe. IBRAHIMA DIOP We want to start talking (soon) and make sure we let them know we want them. They've let us know the... DENNIS MORGIGNO Really the topic of breakfast cereal is generally a very boring one. JOSH HOMME Steve Howe met Paul Simon and said that Paul was very approving of our version of 'America.' CHRIS SQUIRE The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me. J. I. PACKER I think it's science and physics are just starting to learn from all these experiments. These ex... ROBERT LANZA Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes. JEREMY BRETT It's become a primary target. It's a softer target, as you know, but it is a primary target to attac... MARTHA RADDATZ One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things... HARRISON BIRTWISTLE Very few people could make me fight out of my system. Burley was one. ARCHIE MOORE Nothing on 'Relapse' and very little on 'Recovery' was produced by me. EMINEM People think it must be wonderful being in movies or on television, but it can be very tough on a ch... ANGELA CARTWRIGHT Books didn't figure in my family very much. . . . However, my grandmother's attic was full of old, o... WILLIAM H. GASS One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very ... ERIC CLAPTON We'd read about it, but seeing it was another thing entirely, ... He was only 17 when he came to Aus... BIBLE It was very, very successful. On Friday alone, which is usually a very slow day, we had more than a ... CLAIRE ICK I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother woul... RICK JAMES There are hundreds of thousands of people impacted and this will be a very slow moving recovery effo... ANITA FOSTER Our premise, from day one, was [tablet sales] would be very, very slow. LESLIE FIERING We're very happy about the scholarship award. KATY TAYLOR The festival presents a broad diversity of traditions and it is very inclusive, in terms of traditio... JULIA OLIN Not being able to work would make me very unhappy. IAN HART I'm very comfortable with myself and my sexuality, but it doesn't define me. I also read boo... EVA MENDES This is a group that likes to play, and more importantly, they really like one another. I'm very, ve... SKIP PROSSER
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