Boxes Quotes - Page 31

• Hollywood is designed to check the box office on Monday morning and see: "How'd we do? How much?" It's another facet of this whole culture of accumulation and consumption. Black people are caught up in it, white people are caught up in it, white actors, black actors, female actresses - everybody's caught up in it.

  Danny Glover

  Monday, Morning, White

  Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. February 8, 2012.

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• I have a lifetime project which consists of boxes and boxes filled with envelopes on which people have written my name. I've always thought of it as a kind of double portrait, and a portrait of our relationship, which in some cases means nothing. But it makes me feel connected.

  Micah Lexier

  Mean, Names, People

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2013.

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• Some songs seem to achieve the quality of a geometric object - a ball, box, or cone - and I don't mess with 'em.

  Peter Blegvad

  Song, Quality, Balls

  Interview with Franklin Bruno, believermag.com. November 1, 2009.

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• All the kids made their own git-tars. Made mine out of a box and bit of stick for a neck. Couldn't do much with it, but that's how you learn.

  Muddy Waters

  Kids, Sticks, Necks

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• I keep myself locked as a box when it matters, and broken open when it doesn't matter at all.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Broken, Matter, Locked

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• Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.

  Kareena Kapoor

  Office, Actors, Want

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• I have this brand, I have my name. And I'm going to do what I want because people will buy it. People will enjoy it. So don't tell me I have to follow this formula and sit inside the box. Because I don't.

  Sasha Grey

  Names, People, Want

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• Yep, I'm a geek. Ever since I got the Millennium Falcon for Christmas in 1978. And I still have it, in perfect condition, just without the box... but I still play with it!

  Joseph Gatt

  Play, Perfect, Geek

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I pretended I had urgent business at the prosecutor's table which, in one of The System's obvious tells, was always millimeters from the jury box.

  Sergio De La Pava

  Tables, Obvious, Jury

  Sergio De La Pava (2012). “A Naked Singularity: A Novel”, p.82, University of Chicago Press

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• I don't want to have my face on the cover of a Wheaties box. I wanna have my face on the cover of a Rice Krispies box. "Snap, Krackle, Mitch and Pop"!

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Want

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• The fellow who can pay only twenty-five cents to see a ball game always will be just as welcome at Comiskey Park as the box seat holder.

  Charles Comiskey

  Games, Twenties, Balls

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• There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Dream, Eye, Mind

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.32, Grove Press

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• Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.

  Walter Bagehot

  Government, Presidential, Waiting

  Walter Bagehot (1930). “The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays”, p.44, Lulu.com

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• I find that it's a very odd thing to think of competition when you're talking about what I still think of as art. I don't think of competing with actors or filmmakers at all. You do compete, in a way, at the box office, but we're far enough apart when both films are coming out that I'm not concerned with that either.

  George Clooney

  Art, Thinking, Talking

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• Hollywood's thinking is very typical. And it's just really predictable too. And I think at Hollywood, these box office movies are flopping. I mean, there hasn't been an original thought coming out of Hollywood since the '80s.

  Andrea Tantaros

  Mean, Thinking, Office

  Source: deadline.com

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• He has an awareness of what's happening around him on the edge of the box which is better than most players. As a kid he always had a knack of arriving in the penalty area just at the right time, but he's proving just as effective from outside the box because he's using his experience in the right way. It doesn't matter who I am thinking about bringing into my midfield, Paul Scholes will be included, as he would in any side in the world.

  Alex Ferguson

  Kids, Player, Thinking

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• U.S. News Organizations observe the anniversary of September 11 with investigations about the nation's continuing vulnerability to terrorism. First, the New York Daily News reports that two of its reporters carried box cutters, razor kinves, and pepper spray on fourteen commerical flights without getting caught. Then ABC News reports that it smuggled fifteen pounds of uranium into New York City. Then Fox News reports that it flew Osama bin Laden to Washington, D.C., and videotaped him touring the White House.

  Dave Barry

  New York, Cities, Organization

  "Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)". Book by Dave Barry, 2007.

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• It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet somehow that's the area I find the most poetic, the juiciest.

  Arca

  Trying, Poetic, Grey Areas

  "Arca's Warped Beauty". Interview with Philip Sherburne, pitchfork.com. November 19, 2015.

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• There are so many parts of music that it's actually a pleasure for me to work with an orchestra, or a jazz band, or a choir, and use every element that the musical tool box can offer. The world of music I love so much, and I can change the costume depending on the part, and I'm actually in the film.

  Alexandre Desplat

  Musical, Tools, Band

  Source: collider.com

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• I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know, and I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Fighting, Nails, Grim Reaper

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• The weaving of mankind into one community does not imply the creation of a homogeneous community, but rather the reverse; the welcome and adequate utilization of distinctive quality in an atmosphere of understanding.... Communities all to one pattern, like boxes of toy soldiers, are things of the past, rather than of the future.

  H. G. Wells

  Past, Community, Understanding

  H. G. Wells, Walter Warren Wagar (2004). “The Outline of History: The Roman Empire to the Great War”, p.658, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• To the west, the Pacific Ocean, which revulses me, for its vastness cannot be fitted into any box.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Ocean, Vastness, West

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• Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

  Tom Hanks

  Movie, Book, Numbers

  "Fictional character: Forrest Gump". "Forrest Gump", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• If you can't smile and have fun, you're in trouble. So if somebody in the stands says hello, I'm going to say hello back. Why shouldn't I? I know what I'm doing in this game. I'm still going to be ready to hit when I step in the box.

  Carlos Delgado

  Fun, Games, Steps

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• I love the slider. I'll throw it anytime. It helps the curve. The last five feet, it dives toward the left-handed hitter's box. It's a pitch that looks like a fastball coming in. It's a pitch I throw when I need a ground ball with a man on base.

  Kerry Wood

  Men, Curves, Feet

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