Kind 'Guardian' readers have been forwarding me round robin Christmas newsletters for years now: lengthy missives full of perfect children, exotic holidays, talented pets and endless, tedious detail. The notes that accompanied them revealed they had inspired in the original recipients everything from mild irritation to absolute rage.

Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is.

Much protective self-criticism stems from growing up around people who wouldn't or couldn't love you, and it's likely they still can't or won't. In general, however, the more you let go of the tedious delusion of your own unattractiveness, the easier it will be for others to connect with you, and the more accepted you'll feel.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position and made him eat at four o'clock. He liked to direct it. But, to me, directing is tedious. Especially if you're acting in it. And I'm inherently lazy.

Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.

I'm reading more than ever. I used to find it tedious, but now it's like my little friend - it takes my mind off things.

But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.

When you're on a set it can be very tedious and slow. It's just not as big as when you see it on film.

The reason it takes us from November the second to December the sixth to certify is because we have a very tedious, very comprehensive process where we audit by precinct, across the state, every vote that was cast to make sure that every vote that was legally cast is counted.

Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.

All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk. We had so often packed our service trunks that the whole thing had become tedious.

The studio can be quite tedious.

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

Most screen violence is tedious.

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.

I don't like teaching, because it's so repetitive - especially the beginning of class, which is always more or less the same and has to be carefully done. It's tedious. But I know it's necessary for dancers to keep working on technique.

It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing.