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Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, The Dreaming (1982)
Context: I won't open boxes
That I am told not to.
I'm not a Pandora.
I'm much more like
That girl in the mirror.
Between you and me
She don't stand a chance of getting anywhere at all.
“I'm more contented and at peace with myself now than I was as a box-office queen.”
Julie Andrews (1935) British actress, singer, author, theatre director, and dancer
Saturday Evening Post (February 1980)
Context: I'm more contented and at peace with myself now than I was as a box-office queen. I'm less uptight. I've even reached a stage where it doesn't shatter me if somebody prints something bad about me.
Tom Stoppard book Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Shannon Hale (1974) American fantasy novelist
Variant: Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.
“I may be number 1-10 at the box office but that still does not mean that I am irreplaceable.”
Amitabh Bachchan (1942) Indian actor
Quotable quotes by Amitabh Bachchan.
“I'm glad to see that royality isn't confined to the box.”
Dusty Springfield (1939–1999) English singer and record producer
Addressing toward her LGBT fans at the Royal Albert Hall charity concert in 1979 <br class="br">As quoted in "Dancing with Demons: The Authorized Biography of Dusty Springfield" by Vicki Wickham and Penny Valentine. (published by Hodder and Stoughton; 2000) https://books.google.com/books?id=1c7rAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT294&lpg=PT294&dq=royalty+isn%27t+confined+to+boxes&source=bl&ots=-uoccPszVB&sig=ACfU3U3pd2JPiognj1LyKsNKLEruai_lig&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiP84OC_OLhAhXFna0KHUyYCZYQ6AEwAnoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=royalty%20isn't%20confined%20to%20boxes&f=false
Baba Hari Dass (1923–2018) master yogi, author, builder, commentator of Indian spiritual tradition
The Yellow Book, 1974
Context: Q: Did you start life like us with lots of demands, and what spurred you to give it up? A: When I was six or seven, I would feel I was inside a box of earth and sky, and I would weep. Once I asked my mother: "Take me out of this box of earth and sky." She said, "I can't." Then I said, "I'm going." (p.33)
“I box in yellow Gox box socks.”
Dr. Seuss book One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
Source: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish