Boxes Quotes - Page 40

• I just don't fit into the box.

  Liz Phair

  Fit

  "Liz Phair Interview" by Melanie Haupt, www.austinchronicle.com. March 14, 2003.

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• Once I'm already in my room, I still have to open a door to get into my bed. It's like a giant box. It's like the boy in a bubble.

  Michael Phelps

  Boys, Doors, Bed

  "Michael Phelps: Ready for London games?". "60 Minutes" with Anderson Cooper, www.cbsnews.com. May 6, 2012.

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• I'm thankful for Sarah Palin's vice presidential bid, which taught us that Alaska is not in a box off the coast of California.

  Paula Poundstone

  Alaska, Taught Us, California

  "Thanksgiving Is Not Just for Leftovers" by Paula Poundstone, November 26, 2008.

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• I like to do 'Garfield Mondays': lasagna and napping in a box.

  Chris Pratt

  Monday, Garfield, Lasagna

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• How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I'm sure I'll end up there, or I'll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I'll get more tourists to Graceland that way.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Glasses, People, Tourism

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• The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.

  Harold Prince

  Successful, Ideas, Office

  Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 24, 2010.

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• I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.

  Anna Quindlen

  Husband, Silly, President

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• Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings a certain freshness and a reality to it, as long as it doesn't go too far out of the box.

  Robert Redford

  Reality, Thinking, Long

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. July 1, 2004.

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• I've never been someone who's been given work because of the way I look or because I have some box office appeal. I get work because people know I'm swinging as hard as I can, trying to connect, giving it my level best. I have a face for radio, but here I am doing what I do.

  John C. Reilly

  Here I Am, Office, People

  "Conquer Your Shortcomings". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. December 15, 2011.

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• I think everybody involved in a movie thinks about the box office. It's the 'biz' part of showbiz.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Thinking, Office, Involved

  "Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges Talk R.I.P.D., Childhood Memories, On-Set Injuries, Creating Roy the Cowboy, and More". Interview with Perri Nemiroff, collider.com. July 15, 2013.

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• The more that I can work in different mediums, the more I can grow, and learn from different actors and different types of actors and directors and different styles of acting and build a tool box.

  Christina Ricci

  Meaningful, Style, Acting

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• I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.

  Tim Robbins

  Fun, Office, Acting

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• Although not considered a martial art, boxing is really a martial art. It's a very limited martial art as long as you agree to just box... but in an actual physical fight against someone who's just a wrestler, you're going to get killed.

  Joe Rogan

  Art, Fighting, Long

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• So what 'Twilight' does is show how women/girls can drive box office and they can support a tent pole movie. They're an extremely passionate fan base. This coincided with the 13 year old boys starting to stay home and play video games and work on their home media stuff. They're no longer going to theaters in droves.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Girl, Twilight, Home

  "A Conversation with Melissa Rosenberg – Writer of the Twilight Series". Interview with Melissa Rosenberg, www.indiewire.com. November 20, 2012.

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• Hollywood's famous for putting you in a box.

  Mickey Rourke

  Hollywood

  The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. November 10, 2011.

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• I love doing collaborations - it's always good to do something that's out the box.

  Kelly Rowland

  Collaboration

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• It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, New York, Past

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• Living and working for four decades in a Bologna apartment and studio he shared with his unwed sisters, Morandi painted little but bottles, boxes, jars, and vases. Yet like that of Chardin and the underappreciated William Nicholson, Morandi's work seems to slow down time and show you things you've never seen before.

  Jerry Saltz

  Bottles, Four, Littles

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• Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box.

  Adam Savage

  Thinking, Long, Mind

  "Under age gun: when less time can mean better problem-solving" by Adam Savage, www.wired.com. February 11, 2013.

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• In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the electrical system. Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore. The car is effectively a black box.

  Adam Savage

  Simple, Car, Black

  "Potentially awesome outcomes: Adam Savage on the courage to try". www.wired.com. October 30, 2012.

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• Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Literature, Appearance, Function

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• People say you should do it this way, someone else suggests that, yes, there's financing, but maybe you should use this actor. And there are the threats, at the end - if you don't do it this way, you'll lose your box office; if you don't do it that way, you'll never get financed again... 35, 40 years of this, you get beat up.

  Martin Scorsese

  Years, Office, People

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• I always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese-box effect, in which you keep opening it up and opening it up, and finally at the end you're at the beginning.

  Martin Scorsese

  Chinese, Film, Ends

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• I've got mad energy for days. That's what people can't get their minds around. They say, 'Oh, he's going to crash.' They try to apply all these common terms to a guy who is not common. I don't fit into their little box.

  Charlie Sheen

  People, Mad, Guy

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• Very few people know this, but I love organizational products and tools. One of my favorite places to shop are container stores where you can get bins, boxes and crates to organize your life.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  People, Favorite Places, Tools

  "Kimora Lee Simmons Dishes About Online Shopping, Her Favorite Things to Buy, and Hypothetical Hoarding" by Danica Lo, www.glamour.com. April 9, 2012.

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