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• I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of ambush involved in the experience. You're being ambushed by an unexpected word, or by an elephant falling out of the cupboard, whatever it is.

  Tom Stoppard

  Fall, Thinking, Elephants

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• After that, he tried to go upstairs through the broom cupboard, and then the yard. This seemed to puzzle him a little. But finally he discovered the stairs, all except the bottom on, and fell up them on his face. The whole castle shook.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Yards, Castles, Littles

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world's future.

  Bob Brown

  Real, Future, Gun

  Bob Brown (2012). “Memo For A Saner World”, p.17, Penguin UK

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• I like this thought: Your mind is a cupboard, and you stock the shelves. Let us make certain that our cupboard shelves, and those of our family members, are stocked with the things which will provide safety to our souls and enable us to return to our Father in Heaven. Such shelves could well be stocked with gospel scholarship, faith, prayer, love, service, obedience, example, and kindness

  Thomas S. Monson

  Kindness, Prayer, Father

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• Also, you may not have noticed, but this is a cupboard." "I admit that our private office is of modest dimensions," Kami told him, "But that's the way we like it. Just because we're editors doesn't mean we need special privileges. We're not snobs.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Mean, Editors, Office

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• My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

  Jan Karon

  Writing, Firsts, Hungry

  Jan Karon (2006). “The Mitford Bedside Companion: A Treasury of Favorite Mitford Moments, Author Reflections on the Bestselling Se lling Series, and More. Much More.”, p.72, Penguin

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• In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.

  Carl Bernstein

  Views, Issues, Doctrine

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• 'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.

  Florence Welch

  Dog, Wall, Play

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• Architecture was, or is, a kind of hobby, an inclination I have to fiddling around and building things. Putting up shelves or cupboards, or making tools, or designing houses ... it always has a functional or social motivation. If social changes are in the air, I am gripped immediately by the desire to build, and I think that I accelerate or anticipate changes in my life by doing so, at least in draft. In the case of my house, that was anticipation: in other words, first build, then change one's life.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Motivation, Thinking

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• If there's something in the kitchen I like, it must be eaten. I try not to leave any snacks I wouldn't want to eat on a daily basis in the cupboard.

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  Snacks, Kitchen, Trying

  "Jenna Answers Your Fitness Qs!". www.seventeen.com. March 23, 2012.

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• The cat which isn't let out of the bag often becomes a skeleton in the cupboard.

  Geoffrey Madan

  Cat, Skeletons, Bags

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• Where I'm from we don't trust paper. Wealth is what's here on the premises. If I open a cupboard and see, say, thirty cans of tomato sauce and a five-pound bag of rice, I get a little thrill of well-being - much more so than if I take a look at the quarterly dividend report from my mutual fund.

  Garrison Keillor

  Trust, Paper, Littles

  "The Times Book of Quotations". Book by HarperCollins, 2000.

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• I'm just totally into being strong. There's something about wanting to get a jar or whatever out of a high cupboard, or moving a sofa over because my dog's bone rolled under it, and not having to call anyone for help. There's comfort in that.

  Maggie Q

  Dog, Strong, Moving

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

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• When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard.

  Sylvia Plath

  Light, Numbness, Emptiness

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “The Colossus”, p.72, Faber & Faber

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• What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Heart, Lavender, Favour

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1859). “The Oxford Thackeray: With Illus”, p.339

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• You can’t put the past behind you. It’s buried in you; it’s turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you.

  Claudia Rankine

  Past, World, Flesh

  "Citizen: An American Lyric". Book by Claudia Rankine, July 2, 2015.

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• If I ever saw magic on television I would say: 'I want that. That's what I want from Santa Claus'. So the cupboard in my bedroom was full of boxes of magic tricks, cups and balls, cards and foam rabbits, all sorts of stuff.

  Colin Morgan

  Magic, Saws, Cups

  "Merlin actor Colin Morgan is magic". www.mirror.co.uk. September 03, 2008.

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• Sometimes I’d get mad because things didn’t work out so well, I’d spoil a flapjack, or slip in the snowfield while getting water, or one time my shovel went sailing down into the gorge, and I’d be so mad I’d want to bite the mountaintops and would come in the shack and kick the cupboard and hurt my toe. But let the mind beware, though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

  Jack Kerouac

  Hurt, Mad, Water

  Jack Kerouac (2011). “The Dharma Bums”, p.254, Penguin UK

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• Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.

  William Ralph Inge

  Parent, Special, Pedestal

  William Ralph Inge (2015). “The Victorian Age”, p.5, Cambridge University Press

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• I collect imported teas, I have a few cupboards full! It's like wine, each has it's own flavour and you get into their little nuances.

  Maggie Grace

  Wine, Tea, Littles

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• And you have been forever, and will be forever, and all the worrisome smashings of your foot on innocent cupboard doors it was only the Void pretending to be a man pretending not to know the Void.

  Jack Kerouac

  Men, Doors, Feet

  Jack Kerouac (1995). “Desolation Angels”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long. She edited out, maybe burned, every single photograph where I'm naked.

  Marina Abramovic

  Mother, Book, Long

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• American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington. Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers. ...The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Dollars, Bottles

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• What matters most has an ultimate metallic quality of death. The chasuble and the wagon wheel, the razor and the prickly beards of shepherds, the bare moon, a fly, humid cupboards, rubble piles, the images of saints covered in lace, quicklime, and the wounding edges of the rooflines and watchtowers.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Moon, What Matters, Quality

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• The thing to do,' I said as we gained the lane that leads to Beech Green and Fairacre, 'is to get absolutely everything in the summer and lock it in a cupboard. Then order every scrap of food from a shop the week before Christmas and sit back and enjoy watching everyone else go mad. I've been meaning to do it for years.

  Miss Read

  Summer, Order, Years

  Miss Read (2001). “Village School”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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