Doors Quotes - Page 30

• I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.

  Mario Batali

  Italian, Expression, Punctuation Marks

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• In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand, and they are storming city council and county commissioner meetings.

  Bob Beauprez

  Hands, Cities, Colorado

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• We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.

  Robert Benchley

  Men, Uniforms, Comedy

  Robert Benchley (1970). “Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace. For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.

  John Berger

  Art, Italian, Space

  "Past present" by John Berger, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.

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• In a building with apartments, of course, you want to make connections. Life is easier that way. There's salt if you don't have salt; you can knock at someone's door, like in any city. But you know, you can hear the others, and you want to sleep, you get annoyed.

  Juliette Binoche

  Sleep, Cities, Annoyed

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• Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers.

  Sara Blakely

  Journey, Fifth Avenue, Calling

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• Don't give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don't stop beating down their door till you get heard. Don't ever say it'll never happen or it'll never happen.

  Mary J. Blige

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Being Positive

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• My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Block, Fire

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• Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Lying, Locks, Dishonesty

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

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• Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.

  Brandon Boyd

  People, Important, Rewards

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• One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.

  Jeff Bridges

  Father, Feet, Age

  "Jeff Bridges Abides". Interview with Tim McDonnell, www.motherjones.com. November, 2011.

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• Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that he is thinking, with the deeds that he is doing, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is the child of God.

  Phillips Brooks

  Life, Thinking, Men

  "Addresses".

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• The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.

  Alton Brown

  School, Video, Band

  "13 Questions With Alton Brown". Askmen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin their own explorations.

  Dan Brown

  People, Exploration, Sincere

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• I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

  Martin Buber

  Book, Faces, Surrender

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• I've lived next door to people all my life. I don't know how cute they think I am.

  Sandra Bullock

  Cute, Thinking, People

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• I believe in taking chances and living your life. Sometimes doors open and others close and you have to figure out which one you're going to take. I'm always for the one that's challenging.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Believe, Live Your Life, Challenges

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• And call me a pig, but isn't it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they're still laying out the cutlery in achingly hip Barcelona, they're hanging the Closed sign on the restaurant doors of old Amsterdam.

  Julie Burchill

  Pigs, Dinner, Dutch

  "Chill factors". www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2004.

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• In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my material for me. I lived at a place called the Rehearsal Club that was actually the basis for a play called Stage Door.

  Carol Burnett

  Jobs, Angel, Play

  "Carol Burnett: A Woman of Character". PBS Interview, www.pbs.org. August 24, 2008.

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• Every day's an adventure when I step out of my door. That's why I usually wear a hat and keep my head low.

  Steve Buscemi

  Adventure, Hats, Steps

  "Steve Buscemi Interview BOARDWALK EMPIRE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 9, 2010.

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• Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it.

  Nicolas Cage

  Fun, Shock, Stills

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• I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter.

  Michael Caine

  Boys, Acting, Next

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Because there is that sort of feeling that people don't know what to do with gaps in their lives. It's a scary notion, but actually, if you can stand in space just for a little while, a new door will open, or you'll be able to see in the dark after a while. You'll adjust.

  Jane Campion

  Dark, Space, People

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. September 22, 2009.

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• All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Motivational, New Year

  Albert Camus (2013). “The Myth of Sisyphus”, p.16, Penguin UK

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• I always pray for God's guidance in my life and he always provides it. He opens the right doors he shuts the right doors. And I have tremendous faith in him. He just guided my career in an amazing way.

  Benjamin Carson

  Careers, Way, Praying

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