Bored Quote by James C. Scott

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

— Robert Harris

I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer. I was headed for a life as an English professor, but that just wasn't…

— Scott Turow

I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough for me.

— Michael Korda

Apart from being an actor, I'm an academician. I wanted to pursue something with which I could bring about a change in society.

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

I was in college, and I studied everything, but was really not good at anything until I found philosophy, and, then, political science. I…

— Michael Kelly

I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.

— Cheryl Strayed

I was a reasonably good student in college ... My chief interests were scientific. When I entered college, I was devoted to out-of-doors natural…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.

— Bel Powley

Obviously, I carved out a pretty successful path and career for myself. But I'm kind of fascinated with, for lack of a better term,…

— CM Punk

I am in the representational business, a portraitist. I have tried to walk an amused line amid hyperbole, documentary detail, cruel characterisation, occasional affection,…

— Michael Wolff

Before I came along, my field was dominated by myth, superstition, deceit, and outright fraud. I overcame it by the simple application of logical…

— Arthur Jones

If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished - there will always be work you haven't done.

— Julia Child