Boxes Quotes - Page 36

• I think it's just easier for people to put you in a box or a lane because you look similar. I think that's unfair for anybody in any situation.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Thinking, People, Looks

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Somebody, my daughter or my wife, gave me a music box for Christmas. It plays "My Funny Valentine" on celeste, you know? So I had Bobby [Irving] just play "Jean Pierre" with the changes on celeste.

  Miles Davis

  Daughter, Valentine, Play

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• Box office figures are not something that can decide the success of a film on its own, but they are one of the many yardsticks that help me measure how well a film has been received.

  Aamir Khan

  Office, Yardsticks, Helping

  Source: www.danielpillai.com

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• To be quite honest, numbers don't tell you everything because audience reactions differ. Some of the biggest films at the box office are not necessarily films that everyone has loved, they just opened to a good response.

  Aamir Khan

  Numbers, Office, Honest

  Source: www.danielpillai.com

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• I'd really like to see smart sex writing, writing that can take sex apart and try to put it back together, that doesn't just put a box around "sex writing" and give it glaring neon lights but assumes that sex is part of everything else in our lives.

  Rachel Kramer Bussel

  Sex, Smart, Writing

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• We have to do commerce differently because the WalMart system of big box chain retail will soon die. This means rebuilding local main street economies (networks of local economic interdependency).

  James Howard Kunstler

  Mean, Rebuilding, Walmart

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• I am a sur le motif painter, always in-the-field, with a French easel that folds up into a box, with backpack straps on it. Many of the sites I haunt are desolately beautiful. Few other people go there. I am gloriously alone, unmolested, and absorbed in attempting to see what I am looking at.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Beautiful, People, Fields

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• In the Leach Pottery we did most of our work on the wheel. [Bernard] Leach did a little work in the studio, which was press-molded forms, plastic clay pressed into plaster forms to make small rectangular boxes and some vase forms, which he liked to make. These were molds which had been made to an original that he had modeled in solid clay, and during our work there, sometimes I would be pressing these forms as a means of production.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Mean, Pottery, Littles

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I recall that I had a terrible struggle finding anything antireligious in the school libraries.But many years later my family moved into a house where a woman had left a box of books containing 20 volumes on the history of the Inquisition. I found out there was a word for people like me: "heretic." I was kind of delighted to find I had an identity.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Book, Struggle, School

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• Everybody knows that the boat is leaking. Everybody knows the captain lied. Everybody got this broken feeling, like their father or their dog just died. Everybody talking to their pockets. Everybody wants a box of chocolates and a long-stem rose. Everybody knows.

  Leonard Cohen

  Dog, Father, Talking

  "Leonard Cohen On Poetry, Music And Why He Left The Zen Monastery". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 21, 2016.

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• I never put myself in a box. I like to have various different types of songs and different genres and situational songs. No matter is going on, I have something for that time or era.

  Adrian Marcel

  Song, Matter, Eras

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?

  Shane MacGowan

  Play, Calling, Tradition

  Source: shanemacgowan.com

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• Often it's the latest novel that I've written that is my favourite. I'd been dreaming it for so long, living and breathing its story so that when it finally arrives as a newly published book, smelling wonderful and fresh out of the box, there is nothing like it.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Dream, Book, Breathing

  Source: www.altblackpool.co.uk

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• If you have a structure beforehand, you're sort of stuffing your story into a pre-assembled box. You don't want that to happen. What you want in your writing is to have a sort of wildness that occurs. And then, out of the wildness, a structure emerges.

  Colum McCann

  Writing, Stories, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Doesn't it seem ironic that people fear that we might become alienated by communicating with each other through computers, when we are already staring at these boxes in our living rooms for seven or eight hours a day, slack-jawed and saying nothing to anyone on either side and not talking back to it.

  Howard Rheingold

  Eight, Talking, People

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

  Abdallah II

  Hard Work, Government, Needs

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• I have spoken honestly about being born into a home where there was discord and chaos. I saw my mom have a rough time with my dad being very controlling, which is why I push back whenever I feel like someone is trying to box me in. It makes me run for the hills.

  Christina Aguilera

  Mom, Running, Dad

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• I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.

  Alan Alda

  Asking, Steps, Good Enough

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• My golf score is really bad. I don't know. I'm definitely not a good golfer. Off the tee box, I can drive it about 275, and I'm in the fairway about 99% of the time. It's my next shot that needs work.

  Jason Aldean

  Golf, Needs, Next

  "Jason Aldean: At my show, 'you're going to have a good time'". Interview with Jacque Wilson, www.cnn.com. May 22, 2012.

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• In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions.

  Sherman Alexie

  Night, Assumption, Cop

  "Encore: Living Outside Tribal Lines". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. May 31, 2013.

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• Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.

  Margaret Atwood

  Borders, Stuff, Flow

  "Narrative Magazine’s Friday Feature: Margaret Atwood Interview, In Which She Talks About “A Handmaid’s Tale”, “The Year Of The Flood” And Having Fun". Interview with Jo Scott-Coe, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

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• On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

  Cecil Beaton

  Mixing, Principles, Gum

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• In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred.

  Michael Behe

  Eye, Cells, Black

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• From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.

  Richie Benaud

  Inspirational Sports, Humanity, Grass

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

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• I like very much to ride horses. I like soccer, I have had a passion for boxing since I was a child, although it would be stupid for me to box.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Soccer, Horse, Children

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