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Cardboard cutouts of cheerleaders operated by arthritic monkeys would move more fluidly. -- Courtney Summers
Cardboard is another material that's ubiquitous and everybody hates, yet when I made furniture with it everybody loved it. -- Frank Gehry
My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine. -- Toots Thielemans
I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box. -- Ellen Goodman
I love a cardboard coffin. Both Mummy and Daddy went off in cardboard coffins, painted - Daddy's was rifle green. Beautifully made. -- Joanna Lumley
Most of my films have a lot of character development and exploration, whereas in most horror movies the characters are just cardboard. -- Larry Cohen
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I don't have a desire to make films that have cardboard cut-out or Hollywood stand-in replicas of humans. I need the real deal. -- Lynn Shelton
I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money. -- Jessica Lynch
In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives. -- Terry Brooks
As movers and the moved both know, books are heavy freight, the weight of refrigerators and sofas broken up into cardboard boxes. They make us think twice about changing addresses. -- John Updike
Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago. -- Erma Bombeck
I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout. -- Rick Springfield
My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage. -- Jessica Raine
On the good days, my mother would haul out the ukulele and we'd sit around the kitchen table - it was a cardboard table with a linoleum top - and sing. -- Carol Burnett
I live in Vegas, and I see people by the side of the road with cardboard signs who seem like they might have tried that spending their way out of debt thing. -- Penn Jillette
The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding. -- Chris Van Allsburg
I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts. -- Emma Watson
I could party in a cardboard box with people who are funny and don't care. For me, it's really about who I surround myself with, so I just try to always be with hilarious people. -- Kesha
People in south Manchester overwhelming want to be able to recycle more than they currently can - especially cardboard and plastics - and want more frequent and accessible collections, particularly for those living in flats. -- Lucy Powell
I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head. -- Felix Dennis
A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books. -- Frank Gehry
Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.' -- Olivia Wilde
I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some kind of cardboard and it had metal hinges. It was kind of faux industrial looking, and I used to carry my books in it rather than a backpack. I didn't want to have normal student accoutrements. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
My uncle Shawn used to stay with us when we were really young, and I used to come downstairs and see him break dancing on this piece of a cardboard. I probably always thought they were cool since then. I never knew his comedy, but I used to always see him break dancing. And he was terrible at it. -- Damon Wayans, Jr.
Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style. -- James Wolcott
My breakdancing crew used to go to the mall and squat a piece of cardboard there; we had our jam box, and I'd spin on my head and make about forty bucks a day, which was pretty good back then. I was only 14 years old, so I would chase the girls around the mall and eat some pizza and have some change left over. -- Vanilla Ice
If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried. -- Laura Wade
My first playpen was a cardboard box. -- Michael Lee-Chin
Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea. -- Yip Harburg
where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard. -- Ezra Pound
Honestly, I would eat cardboard rather than go back to eating animals. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality. -- Alexander McQueen
Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent. -- Isabel Allende
To say that Agatha Christie's characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs. -- Ruth Rendell
To live without the creative potential of our own destructiveness is to be a cardboard angel. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
You know you're lazy when you run out of toilet paper and use the cardboard roll to wipe with. -- Dane Cook
Trying to explain or define grace is like catching the wind in a cardboard box or describing the color green. -- Cathleen Falsani
I had a dream about you last night... you sat in a cardboard box and said you were a tree. -- Nicole McKay
I usually start by doing one or more color studies of the subject on a piece of canvas taped to cardboard. -- Mary Beth McKenzie
Say, it's only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea, But it wouldn't be make believe, If you believed in me. -- Billy Rose
I could find David Beckham naked in a cardboard box on my doorstep and I would drop him off at the pound. -- Olivia Wilde
One thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse. -- Jack Handey
You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table. -- C. S. Lewis
It's what's on the record not what labels on it. You know, that's like getting a box of cornflakes and eating the cardboard. -- Elvis Costello
Without stories we end up with stereotypes -- a flat earth with flat cardboard figures that have no texture or depth, no INTERIOR. -- Eugene H. Peterson
My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books. -- William Nicholson
I carry a knife with me so I can cut images out of cardboard boxes. I'm always cutting cardboard. Especially every Thursday, which is recycling day. -- Micah Lexier
I feel as though the cardboard box of my own reality has been flattened and blown open. Now I can see the edge of the world. -- Tom Hiddleston
I feel that I see John Lennon now as not a celebrity. I did then. I saw him as a cardboard cutout on an album cover. -- Mark David Chapman
People tend to look at dancers like we are these little jewels, little cardboard cut outs, and yet we have blood and guts and go through Hell. -- Susan Jaffe
The most common way to identify a soldier is by the disc around his neck. But these were made of compressed cardboard and so they've all but disappeared. -- Chris Roberts
And thus Charles found himself wandering around a hotel, trailing federal agents as he held a cardboard coffee cup holder in each hand, instead of out killing misbehaving werewolves. -- Patricia Briggs
Now I got a time machine at home. It only goes foreword at regular speed. It's essentially a cardboard box and on the outside I wrote time machine in sharpie. -- Demetri Martin
Cryptography [without system integrity] is like investing in an armored car to carry money between a customer living in a cardboard box and a person doing business on a park bench. -- Gene Spafford
I don't want to give this impression that I grew up in Liverpool in a cardboard box in abject poverty, but that didn't mean there weren't anxieties in my childhood about money. -- Cherie Blair
Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit card information from someone living in a cardboard box to someone living on a park bench. -- Gene Spafford
I love when people walk into my house and start grinning: "This is too much - this is so you!" Why give people brown cardboard when you can give them embroidered, crystal-flecked organza? -- Kimora Lee Simmons
The negative way [of describing God] is a cardboard prop of Christianity to conceal its unknowable God. When this prop collapses, theistic agnosticism emerges, complete with its package of contradictions and non-sensical utterances. -- George H. Smith
Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask. -- Charles Bukowski
Once upon a time there were three little foxes Who didn't wear stockings, and they didn't wear sockses, But they all had handkerchiefs to blow their noses, And they kept their handkerchiefs in cardboard boxes. -- A. A. Milne

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