Barbara Amiel Quotes

I've done all my tricks. I'm tired of myself.

I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.

I think it starts to feel really redundant when you start to do something the same way over and over again. I don't think it's good to become so dependent on a certain writing process.

In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

I hate anything that seems like something that has been done.

I don't know what I want, but I do know that I don't want the usual stuff, the cliched stuff is just too mind-numbing. They sell, I know, but it makes me sad to know that.

I don't want to return to places and sing the same songs a second time.

It gets so boring you know just to do the same thing over and over again.

They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze.

When I feel I'm repeating myself, I'll probably pack it in.

I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.

I don't really like groups that make the same statement over and over again. It's good, but kind of predictable.

My greatest fear: repetition.

Everybody is doing the same old thing.

Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.

I don't want to see a movie twice. I don't want to do anything twice.

There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.

It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.

I don't want to repeat myself.

Publishers just want you to write the same book over and over again. But why would I want to do that? It would be like putting on a threadbare dressing-gown day after day.

Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews.