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• Cocooning is about insulation and avoidance, peace and protection, coziness and control - a sort of hyper-nesting.

  Faith Popcorn

  Home, Protection, Insulation

  Faith Popcorn (1991). “The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life”, p.33, BookBaby

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• Be neither attracted nor repulsed. You are watching a movie. If the visions are beautiful or horrible, Don't get caught up in them. Enjoy your popcorn.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Buddhism, Meditation

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• In everyday life I am quiet and reserved, not the housekeeper type but cool and relaxed. I don't get up in the morning wearing false eyelashes and I don't wear fancy underwear when I'm cooking popcorn. I'm a nice little ducky.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Morning, Nice, Eyelashes

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• I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film.

  William Shatner

  Kids, Watches, Coke

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• God bless the popcorn film. Especially movies where you can take the kids, because I remember looking forward to seeing these movies with my parents, and if I can give that back, I'm gonna do it.

  Nicolas Cage

  Kids, Giving, Parent

  "Nicolas Cage Interview BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. November 17, 2009.

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• What if I was the sexual equivalent of popcorn? Suitable for light snacking only?

  Rachel Vincent

  Light, What If, Kaylee

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “My Soul to Save”, p.193, Harlequin

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• The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human history and cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons. Not to fall asleep is distinguished. Everything else is mere popcorn.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Philosophy, Real

  1975 Humboldt's Gift.

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• Send me out into another life. But get me back for supper.

  Faith Popcorn

  Another Life, Supper

  Faith Popcorn (1991). “The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life”, p.37, BookBaby

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• Just before consumers stop doing something, they do it with a vengeance.

  Faith Popcorn

  Vengeance, Consumers

  Faith Popcorn (1991). “The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life”, p.104, BookBaby

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• America is a consumer culture, and when we change what we buy - and how we buy it - we'll change who we are.

  Faith Popcorn

  America, United States, Culture

  Faith Popcorn (1991). “The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life”, p.13, BookBaby

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• You can trust a crystal ball about as far as you can throw it.

  Faith Popcorn

  Future, Balls, Crystals

  Faith Popcorn (1991). “The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life”, p.102, BookBaby

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• I make my films like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.

  Oliver Stone

  Missing, Next, Film

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• Half of the popcorn sh-t that's out there, we know it's popcorn. But we're like, "It's my guilty pleasure." I feel like we have more guilty pleasure than actual f - kin' pleasure.

  Saul Williams

  Half, Guilty, Pleasure

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Scandal has made wine and popcorn seem like a viable, even healthful, meal.

  Lena Dunham

  Wine, Meals, Scandal

  "Lena Dunham Opens Up: The 10 Women Who Changed Her Life". www.glamour.com. February 16, 2015.

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• If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning). Trying to find some sense and order in this mess may be as futile as trying to ... reconstruct the economy of Iowa from a bowl of popcorn. [On searching for evidence of the Big Bang.]

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Science, Order, Iowa

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it's a superficial experience isn't it?

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Character, Grieving

  "'Game of Thrones' author George R.R. Martin: Why he wrote The Red Wedding". Interview with James Hibberd, ew.com. June 2, 2013.

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• I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn - small, tasty delights - and I like to gorge on them now and then.

  Walter Kirn

  Book, Memorable, Gorges

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• Pop guns! And bicycles! Roller skates! Drums! Checkerboards! Tricycles! Popcorn! And plums! And he stuffed them in bags. Then the Grinch, very nimbly, Stuffed all the bags, one by one, up the chimbley!

  Dr. Seuss

  Gun, Bags, Plums

  Dr. Seuss (1995). “Six by Seuss”, Prop Pub Juv

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• Gluttony, do not eat thy neighbor's wife's popcorn.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Wife, Obesity, Neighbor

  Song: Bank Of Bad Habits, Album: Barometer Soup, 1995

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• [Leonardo DiCaprio] invited me into his dressing room, and then we went into his hotel room where we stayed. We shared caramel popcorn. I think that was the coolest thing, sharing popcorn with this movie star. And then we wrestled! I always share that story with people.

  Quindon Tarver

  Stars, Thinking, People

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can’t invent more time.

  Daniel Handler

  Window, Steam, More Time

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• I like going out to popcorn-munchers.

  Guy Maddin

  Going Out

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Popcorn-can cover / screwed to the wall / over a hole / so the cold / can't mouse in.

  Lorine Niedecker

  Wall, Winter, Poverty

  Lorine Niedecker (2002). “Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works”, p.218, Univ of California Press

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• Sometimes I work upstairs projecting the movies, and the rest of the time I'm just selling tickets or popcorn.

  Kyle Parker

  Tickets, Sometimes, Selling

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Whatever moisture is left in the popcorn when it gets from harvest to bag to your popper is what's going to determine how well the corn pops.

  Ken Kercheval

  Bags, Moisture, Harvest

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