"Nine in the box... that's a football term."
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"I've never been opposed to nudity. I've been opposed to nudity for box-office draw."
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"If I don't feel the same hunger as I once did then I definitely shouldn't box any more."
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"Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?"
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"Enough small empty boxes thrown into a big empty box fill it full."
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"You have this resonant box that sounds cool when you smack it, so why not go for it?"
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"Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to push it back in the box."
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"I tried to make a point of doing things outside the box, of not having basketball consume me."
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"I wouldn't try to put myself in a box or put God in a box."
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"I found myself in too much of a box situation."
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"Never tell the box-office man that you can't hear well or he will sell you a seat where you can't see either."
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"Father! Can I box him? Please!"
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"Ha, but my life is a box of wormgears."
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"The sharpest tools in the box are not always the best tools for the job."
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"I didn't come out of a cereal box."
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"Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about it with wisdom and a point to make before putting it on a shelf somewhere."
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"I have three boxes on my desk: In, Out, and Too Hard."
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"Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed."
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"Life is a buzzer box. Poke it."
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"Superman, Superman, crunchy little Superman. Found you in a Cornflakes box."
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