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No. I don`t talk about the family. This is kind of an on-going thing that gets, honestly, to be kind of tiresome, only because, you know, you meet people in Boston and they say, `Boy, what`s it like to wake up with Jamie Lee Curtis?` Well, you know what? We`ve been married for 12 years, and we have kids, and it`s not like we`re living some bizarre life here. We go home and we wear sweatpants and the baby takes a dump and we change the diaper. I don`t mean to put you off here, but I just tend not to talk about it.

- Christopher Guest

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

- Robert Wyatt

(When asked if all his older songs were getting tiresome to sing) "No, they`re all fresh; fresh as daisies!"

- Rufus Wainwright

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

- Aaron Burr

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

- Al Eckert

Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.

- Alvin Hellerstein

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

- Andrew Natsios