Bland Quotes
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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
John Cleese
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It would be presumptuous of me to tell you that we are the only intelligent life form that ever existed. I thought my high school principal was an alien - he was so bland. - on alien encounters
Jason Behr
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[On her career prior to "Gilmore Girls" (2000)]: "I kept playing the bland friend, and my line was like `Let`s go get a sandwich!`".
Lauren Graham
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I didn`t decide to be a writer. I wanted to be an actor and I turned out to be very bland, so I would always get cast as a character from Twelefth Night called Fabian, who hides behind the hedge and doesn`t have any funny lines. So I decided I would have ...
Richard Curtis
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If I have a choice between a nice, bland hero or a really interesting, detestable character, I`d rather do the detestable one. Good guys can be pretty boring. I love playing characters who celebrate the power and joy and beauty of greed. As the bad guy, y...
Peter Gallagher
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[on the widespread unemployment of actors and their fear of it] The truth is I love the insecurity part of it, it keeps me on my toes. I think you become bland and predictable without the stress and angst. There`s a certain lethargy that sets in.
Liam Neeson
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It would have been great to light up and smoke cigarettes, for instance. It would have been great to have the killing a little bit more real and not wussed down. It`s all rather bland. I remember doing a sex scene with Halle [Halle Berry] - I mean frolick...
Pierce Brosnan
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I have a dread of being considered bland, but I`ve had to reconcile myself to the fact that that`s what I am.
George Segal
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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
John Cleese
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You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can`t say I`m very impressed with the food in America. it`s all sort of bland. Like turkey sandwiches.
Anne Dudley
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There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn`t just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland.
Johnny Winter
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The very people who were railing against communism in a way want to create the same kind of bland society, but based on capitalism.
Philip Kaufman
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Olivia Newton-John - Australia`s gift to insomniacs. It`s nothing but the blonde singing the bland.
Minnie Riperton
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It`s just that if you`re not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly - not so much the good things but the bland things - the ordinary things - the weaker things get repeated- the stronger things get suppressed and held down and hidden.
Robert Adamson
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It was blah blah bland. Niche travel is coming into focus and the people who know something about it will sell some travel. I think a travel agency that focuses on niche travel can sell you a ticket to Paris.
Larry White
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Instead we were filling the newspaper with bland, harmless stories, and if there was anything sensitive we would run agency copy and sort of try and downplay it.
Armon Bassett
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I`m always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.
Rose Tremain
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I think I heard it once on Top Of The Pops and thought it was very bland,
Alison Goldfrapp
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I tested a lot of old cornbread recipes and most of them were bland or tough.
Jeremy Jackson
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Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he fell back on an old habit of looking ahead to the next defeat.
Loudon Wainwright
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But, in the end, even a song that`s as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn`t get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan`s love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still ge...
Billy Bragg
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But, in the end, even a song that`s as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn`t get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan`s love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still ge...
Ernie Pyle
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As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland... because you`re going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things.
Gerard Butler
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After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn`t do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland.
Robin Wright
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A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it`s pretty much the same every week.
Adam Baldwin
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Moderation? It`s mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It`s the devil`s dilemma. It`s neither doing nor not doing. It`s the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world...
Dan Millman
Keywords: afraid :: and :: apologetic :: bland :: compromise :: confusion :: devil :: dilemma :: disguise :: doing :: fear :: fence :: for :: happy :: in :: is :: it :: makes :: mediocrity :: moderation :: neither :: no :: nor :: not :: of :: one :: sitters :: that :: the :: wobbling :: worldSource: quotationspage.com
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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
John Cleese
