The first thing I do after work is take off my TV makeup with a gentle cleanser. I also try to exfoliate twice a week. Waking up with dull, flaky skin is no way to start the day.
Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun.
I think some of the things I deal with Hopper probably has dealt with also, since it's somewhat the same environment and I have pretty strong reactions to what this country looks like. It looks pretty dull and spare, and you like this and dislike it and it's very complicated.
Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.
It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man.
It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
I watch people who are not driven by creativity any more, and I think how dull it must be to produce the same kind of thing. If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.
I think I'm dull. I would rather watch other people.
People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn't the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.
What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.
The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.
Even I would find a book about my life pretty dull.
And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
It evolved out of the idea to make a kids TV show. And it actually turned out to be a bit dull and a bit regulated and too many people looking over your shoulder and it wasn't really.
I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.
We live in a homogenized world, where it's hard to get excited when everything is slick and professional. The interesting things are the dull things.
I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
It's very hard to dramatise something factual and not make it look overdone, but also not to make it look so under-dramatised that it's dull.
Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.
You can imagine the kind of dinner parties I had to go to at a young age... pretty dull.
If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
I don't seem to require a lot of sleep. I just - if I get four, five good hours, I'm fine. But sleeping is sort of dull. There's a lot of other good stuff that you can do without just lying down and closing your eyes.
No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.
Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?
I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. For example, it is essential to use a sharp knife: the sharper the knife, the more fluid and precise your work and the less likely you are to get hurt. Dull knives are a danger - they slip far more often.
American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them.
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.