Del Toro said that it would be boring to make a slavish adaptation.
"It would be boring to just ski down the slope, " says Verneri Hannula.
Thorkil Sonne, the founder of Specialisterne, a Danish firm that finds high-tech jobs for autistic people, says they can focus on repetitive tasks that might be boring to other workers.
More than anything else, I realized, it had to be boring to be crazy, to think the same sequence of thoughts and come up with the same set of bizarre conclusions, to voice those conclusions using the same words, several times an hour, day in and day out.
When people are mindful of balancing skill and challenge so that cooking, or shopping, is neither so easy as to be a boring chore nor so hard as to be an anxious-making annoyance pushing the limits of competence and time then enjoyment can be found and increased.
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"While it's possible to fetch the contents of all those files, I'll leave it to someone else to decide what files should be grabbed and which are going to be boring, " he wrote.
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"There are a lot of things you need to explain and tell to the Western audience (that) would be considered boring" to a Chinese audience, said Jeffrey Chan, CEO of Hong Kong-based Distribution Workshop.
Another 52 percent said 2013 will be rather boring compared to 2012, about the same as last year.
Plus, to his credit, he seems to understand that the battle with the bottle is not something that can be decreed by autocratic fiat, but rather that it is going to have to be a long, drawn-out (boring) campaign if it is ever to be effective.
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Where is it written that math, grammar and spelling have to be boring?
"It's almost as if they were afraid of their title, " and the resulting film was too boring to be either an exciting piece of good cinema or a fun few hours.
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The campaign promises to be both boring (Mr Berlusconi is way ahead) and bitter (the left hates losing).
They seem to be pretty boring right now, what they have out there.
The majority of chief executive officers attending the World Economic Forum in Davos this week say they believe 2013 is going to be rather boring.
Whatever happens, Mr King is likely to be thwarted in his ambition to make monetary policy boring.
But however hard he tries, he will not be able to make it entirely boring.
Rather, B-schools should be encouraging students to learn the boring, but critically important, discipline of business valuation.
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Instead of delving into the Affordable Care Act title by title, which could be extremely boring, I am going to discuss it in relation to the pain we are feeling and what we can most easily fix.
Titled the Jewelry PC, Moneual's unit will be in one of two styles by jewelry designer Lee Charles Buckingham, and will include real diamonds and other precious jewels on top of what looks to be an otherwise boring home theater PC.
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Dividends can be boring things, but when it comes to your portfolio, they can be a saving grace.
But how boring would it be for my readers to keep coming back to all five lists, only to discover the same handful of movies repeating over and over on every list?
We moved across the city for boring, practical reasons, to be closer to my wife's new office.
But the car itself is the perfect antidote to millions of boring appliances rolling down the road, a reminder that life is to be enjoyed.
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But they don't need or care to be inundated with it 24 hours a day, and forcing me into one ecosystem every place I wander to online seems to be unnecessarily homogenizing, where the world of the internet is bound to become a more boring, less awesome place.
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Vice-presidents were once expected to be solid and reliable but mostly boring.
However, boring will be very attractive when bond prices start to melt.
However, if your viewers are consistently dumping out of your videos before they finish, you are conditioning them to turn you off and to make judgments that you may be boring them.
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