It's very hard to dramatise something factual and not make it look overdone, but also not to make it look so under-dramatised that it's dull.
Julia Sawalha
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Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare
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A story about my life would be utterly dull.
James McAvoy
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My life's actually been quite dull; it's not all that glamorous.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
William Congreve
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I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
Heinrich Heine
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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.
Oswald Spengler
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I think I'm dull. I would rather watch other people.
Mia Kirshner
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No one wants to see or read about a dull subject. I don't consider myself a dull subject.
Jayne Mansfield
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There's certainly never a dull moment in the Stewart clan.
Penny Lancaster
MomentNeverDullClanCertainly
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Something that I've always been. Always lively. I don't want to be dull.
Craig Sager
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Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.
Thom Filicia
BoringMoreBeingFarThanDull
I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull.
Helen Fielding
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
DeathAdviceYouNothingDullVery
How dull it is to have people defining you.
Octavia E. Butler
PeopleYouDullHowDefining
I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things.
Jerry Robinson
InterestingMoreAlwaysHeroesDull
I'm a dull person.
John Updike
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
Joseph Conrad
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If a book isn't teaching me something, pulling something out of me, then it will be dull for me and the reader.
Scott Spencer
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I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
Hilaire Belloc
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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Charles Lamb
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You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one.
Red Barber
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