Boxes Quotes
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Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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If real, regular, normal, boring life, when you're at home every day, seeing the same people, doing the same things is like sitting at home on the floor surrounded by toys... traveling feels to me like going to Toys R Us with your toy box and getting to trade stuff in and buy new things and explore whole new ideas.
Alex Day
Chameleon Circuit
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On the morning of the fourth day, Jamie tipped a switchblade out of his box of cornflakes. “I think these promotional campaigns have really got out of hand,” he said, freezing with his hand on the milk carton. “One shiny free knife with every packet of cereal bought is not a good message to send out to the kiddies.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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Trying to explain or define grace is like catching the wind in a cardboard box or describing the color green.
Cathleen Falsani
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My first playpen was a cardboard box.
Michael Lee-Chin
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Every actor wants to break out of the box that they put you in and that's where I'm heading, out of the box as fast as I can.
Richard Lewis Springthorpe
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Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.
Sandra Oh
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I was never young. Whoever I was then is dead. That's more of your quills. I don't want a hide full, thanks. I have always figured that you die each day and and each day is a is a box, you see, all numbered and neat; but never go back and lift the lids, because you have died a couple thousand times in your life, and that's a lot of corpses, each dead a different way, each with a worse expression. Each of those days is a different you, somebody you don't know or understand or want to understand.
Ray Bradbury
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I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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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
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It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.
Eve Arnold
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The best hope for Australia is the ballot box and good education.
John Monash
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Boxers are hot, and by boxers I mean guys who box, not the underwear. So get rid of 'em!
Carson Kressley
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If I was Bridget Jones and had a tick-list of things to look for in the perfect man, he would tick all the boxes.
Edith Bowman
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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
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Everyone wants to be liked, so of course you want critical acclaim. After that, box office acclaim isn't bad. More than anything I think you have to try and make something you're proud of.
Cary Fukunaga
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There are a few more boxes coming to you guys. Feel free to open them, and use them.
Bowe Bergdahl
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I look for a sense of reality with everything I did. I didn't work in a studio, I didn't light anything. I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn't have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me and £5 worth of film in my pocket or maybe it was only £2 in those days.
Eve Arnold
