Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.
What personality does it take to drive a car around a track 100 times or hit a ball back and forth. That's not very personality is it?
In a sense, touring is crazy. You go city to city playing the show over and over again. But there's something magic about being in front of people, so it's not like going through the motions every night. It's a different experience.
Formula creation is magnitudes harder for computer algorithms than actually executing within a formula. But once the genre is created and the formula is known, then the computer can do the repetitive task of executing within the genre.
If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it.
Usually a video's fun, but after a while, after a couple hours it's like work because you've got to keep doing the scenes over and over and over again.
Everytime you put an album out with any producer you do the same thing.
When I was 17, I had to peel 100 kg of tomatoes every day.
I was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it.
Because I think a lot of people felt like, ultimately - and this isn't the first time I've said this, so I'll bore you again with it - but ultimately it was... I think it felt like homework a bit for people.
The laboratory routine, which involves a great deal of measurement, filing, and tabulation, is either my lifeline or my chief handicap, I hardly know which.
I used to sit on the Circle Line and go 'round and 'round and write.
The thought of continually eating something like macaroni, spat out by machinery, fills me with fear and revulsion, so I make macaroni sculptures. I make them and make them and then keep on making them, until I bury myself in the process. I call this 'obliteration.'
To review ones store is to mow twice.
Life's too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years.
It's a luxurious complaint to have as an actor, but playing the same character for many years can become routine.
I definitely want to go back to the theatre. It is hard work, it is repetitive, but it is intensely rewarding.
I had been on the TV show 'Eight is Enough' for four years. Working on a show like that is like working in a factory.
I get so tired of painting. I've been trying to give it up all the time, if we could just make a living out of movies or the newspaper business or something. It's so boring, painting the same picture over and over.
When you're doing something every week, it's kind of routine.
There is a construct in computer programming called 'the infinite loop' which enables a computer to do what no other physical machine can do - to operate in perpetuity without tiring. In the same way it doesn't know exhaustion, it doesn't know when it's wrong and it can keep doing the wrong thing over and over without tiring.
Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.
Feeding a baby is like filling a hole with putty - you get it in and then you sort of shave off all the excess around the hole and get it back in, like you're spackling.
I'm relatively physically adept and I like throwing myself around. Once, twice, but then you get to nine, ten, eleven and to try and make it look realistic all the time, that's not very pleasant.
There's something about [cyclically] doing something over and over and over that seems to be particularly demotivating.
