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Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

— Gertrude Stein

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I think if you're gonna do something as silly and lighthearted as entertainment, then why not be interesting when you're doing it?

— Chelsea Handler

People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.

— Jimmy Wales

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

— Charles Baudelaire

I don't think my life is more interesting than anybody else's.

— David Sedaris

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

The more things you do outside of your norm, the more ideas you get exposed to, the more people you get exposed to, and I think that's interesting.

— Masi Oka

Everything is interesting to me.

— David Morse

What's interesting to me is the fact that creatively, I can do anything now and people will pay attention, and if I suck, hopefully they will stop paying attention very quickly, but if I'm good, then I have my foot in the door, and people have paid attention, and I did a good job, and people are like, 'Oh, wow!'

— Ansel Elgort

Ultimately, I'm not so sure that, as a person, I'm all that interesting.

— Greg Kinnear

✗Opposing Perspectives

I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting - whether it's old cars or taxidermy or knitting.

— Clare Balding