Boxes Quotes - Page 21

• To seek out making films that are unique and insightful, boundary-pushing and genre-bending, and not films that fit into the neat, little boxes that people "want" (expect) women to be making. In some ways, I guess for me, any filmmaker should strive to be a good director first, regardless of their gender, race, sexual orientation etc.

  Rania Attieh

  Unique, Race, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.

  Carl Sandburg

  Facts, Illusion, Shuffling

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.319, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The press box at Wrigley Field in Chicago is an extended narrow shed, two rows deep, that is precariously bolted to the iron rafters just underneath the park's second deck. To gain access, one must climb a steeply angled ramp and clamber down a little starboard companionway, guarded at its foot by a uniformed minion and then proceed giddily along a catwalk that hangs directly above the tiered, circling rows of seats and spectators behind home plate.

  Roger Angell

  Home, Feet, Two

  Roger Angell (2013). “Season Ticket”, p.266, Open Road Media

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• Box-office poison? Mr. Louis B. Mayer always asserted that the studio had built Stage 22, Stage 24 and the Irving Thalberg Building, brick by brick, from the income on my pictures.

  Joan Crawford

  Office, Bricks, Income

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• When television killed comedy and love stories, the movie makers went in slugging. They offered the downbeat, the degenerate as competition. This seems to me to be a sad campaign for Hollywood to use to combat box office disaster.

  Joan Crawford

  Office, Competition, Degenerates

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

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• White people don't have that problem, they get to go through life never having to fit into a box, and it's really more so true for white men because even just being a woman, you sort of have to walk around other people's assumptions of you and it's so exhausting and there's a sense, especially among young people of wanting to just live your life, not having to wear the weight of that pressure - pressure that people of color feel, that gay people of color feel, that women of color feel.

  Justin Simien

  Gay, Men, White

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I guess it's a bit like not claiming your brother at school. This kind of disowning of the thing that you're most like. You want to be something cool, like Michael Jackson say, with a boom box over your shoulder and wearing leather. But you know deep down you're just a hayseed.

  Ketch Secor

  Brother, School, Over You

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I had a lot of anger against the way things 'should be done' - conforming to social norms, ticking boxes to gain acceptance. Frustration at the pointlessness and predictability of smalltalk. Oh and a lot of anger about tea, which the British seem to use to avoid actually saying anything.

  Rupert Friend

  Acceptance, Frustration, Tea

  "Rupert Friend Talks Directing Short Film Debut 'Steve,' Starring Knightley and Firth". Interview with Maggie Lange, www.indiewire.com. September 26, 2012.

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• I've seen so many people in my life struggle tremendously to fit into those boxes or to live up to those expectations or pressures put upon them by whatever society's concept of 'normal' is. I get frustrated by rules and regulations. I'm frustrated by things that are exclusive to one particular life choice.

  Jennifer Westfeldt

  Struggle, People, Expectations

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• 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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• When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box.

  Gloria Steinem

  Boys, Roles, Gender

  Source: www.elle.com

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• My cartoons appear in newspapers, which are full of words, but there's something about having it in this little box that confounds people's expectations.

  Tom Tomorrow

  People, Expectations, Cartoon

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You're free because you don't have to expose yourself, and you can go wild, and let your id completely out of its box, and nobody will see you because you're operating through a surrogate. It's an opportunity to crack open your shell, to melt down yourself, and just let yourself go. It's a form of catharsis for me.

  Wayne White

  Opportunity, Catharsis, Cracks

  "That's what art really tries to do. Just strip away all the pretense and it's trying to entertain and excite". Interview with Julie Thomson, logger.believermag.com. October 9, 2013.

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• I carry a knife with me so I can cut images out of cardboard boxes. I'm always cutting cardboard. Especially every Thursday, which is recycling day.

  Micah Lexier

  Cutting, Knives, Thursday

  "A Believer Excerpt From Sheila Heti’s Interview With Artist Micah Lexier". Interview with Sheila Heti, www.mcsweeneys.net. October 11, 2013.

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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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• Society wants to put us in a box and say, OK, you do this and you do that and you do this, and I'm like, no, I like this, I like that.

  Pharrell Williams

  Want

  "Transcript: Pharrell Williams In Conversation With NYU Tisch & NPR Music". "NPR Music on Monday", www.npr.org. October 26, 2015.

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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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• The first time I knew what I wanted to do with my life was when I was about four years old. I was listening to an old Victrola, playing a railroad song...I thought that was the most wonderful, amazing thing...That you could take this piece of wax and music would come out of that box. From that day on, I wanted to sing on the radio.

  Johnny Cash

  Song, Years, Listening

  "Music's Man in Black". Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you're staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It's very simple when you look at it.

  Kevin Hart

  Winning, Simple, People

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• But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it.

  Robert Sternberg

  Self Esteem, Done, Research

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• Respondents had been so overwhelmed by their in-box they'd declared "e-mail bankruptcy.

  Susan Maushart

  Mail, Overwhelmed, Bankruptcy

  Susan Maushart (2011). “The Winter of Our Disconnect: How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother Who Slept with Her iPhone)Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale”, p.79, Penguin

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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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• And, to be honest, if weed is a gateway drug, then I really did hop the fence, but sometimes I can't help but miss the sticky-sweet warmth of a good old fashioned hot box.

  Kris Kidd

  Weed, Sweet, Missing

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