Doors Quotes - Page 40

• I have a problem with cabinets being messy and people just shoving things in and closing the door. I will lie in bed and not be able to sleep because I'll say to myself: 'I think I saw something in that cabinet that just shouldn't be there.'

  Charlize Theron

  Lying, Sleep, Thinking

  "Charlize Theron and 8 More Stars with OCD". abcnews.go.com. March 22, 2012.

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• People will never know how hard it is to get information, especially if it's locked up behind official doors where, if politicians had their way, they'd stamp 'top secret' on the color of the walls.

  Helen Thomas

  Wall, Color, People

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• Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.

  Marlo Thomas

  Paper, Fame, Lost

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• When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Talking, Sky, Space

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May, 2008.

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• If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.

  Pete Townshend

  Simple, Laughing, Temples

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• I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped.

  Tracey Ullman

  Missing, Rubber, Next

  "Q&A: Tracey Ullman" by Devin Gordon, www.newsweek.com. September 19, 2004.

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• A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.

  John Updike

  Wall, Writing, Numbers

  John Updike (2009). “More Matter: Essays and Criticism”, p.183, Random House

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• I always say leave things at the door. Whether it's at your audition or at your house, leave the problems of the day away. Keep persevering, stick to yourself. Don't do what other people ask, do what you want!

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  People, House, Want

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• By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

  Peter Ustinov

  Today, Size, Danger

  Christian Science Monitor, 1962.

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• Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.

  Peter Ustinov

  Wedding, Hate, Night

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• I think that would be ungrateful if I were upset because I'm seen as attractive or sexy. That's opened so many doors for me in my life.

  Sofia Vergara

  Sexy, Thinking, Ungrateful

  "Emmys 2012: 'Modern Family's' Sofia Vergara on Playing Pregnant and Loving Her Looks". Interview with Rebecca Ford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 22, 2012.

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• I'm like a little kid when it comes to music. I mean, the music is always blasting wherever I am that people always knock on my door and say, 'It's too loud!' But I think music gives so much inspiration.

  Donatella Versace

  Inspiration, Mean, Kids

  Interview with Nicki Minaj, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 8, 2011.

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• When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel.

  Denzel Washington

  Life, Success, Faith

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• I just feel like if I start opening the door to talking about my university experience, then people just kind of... own everything. There was a lot of stuff a couple of years ago saying that I was bullied at Brown and awful things like that, none of which were true.

  Emma Watson

  Couple, Talking, Years

  Interview with Emma Rosenblum, www.glamour.com. September 3, 2012.

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• It's quite stressful knowing that every time you walk out the door, someone is going to be giving you a very good look up and down, judging everything you wear.

  Emma Watson

  Knowing, Giving, Judging

  "Watson a sorceress of style". Interview with Katie Ellis, www.perthnow.com.au. May 9, 2011.

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• You just have to believe in yourself when you've got something, and just keep pounding on the door, because if you pound long enough, somebody is going to open it.

  Cynthia Weil

  Believe, Long, Never Quit

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• When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

  Simone Weil

  Lying, Insomnia, Grace

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• To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

  Simone Weil

  Tyrants, Morality, Kind

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.10, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Fashion, Ideas, Feelings

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• If you're walking with your lady on the sidewalk, I still like to see a man walking street-side, to protect the lady from traffic. I grew up with that, and I hate to see something like that get lost. I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing.

  Betty White

  Hate, Men, Sides

  "Follow a lady's word: Betty White dispenses some relationship advice for the average male". Q&A, www.heraldextra.com. May 13, 2011.

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• I got an internship with the casting director of The Girl Next Door. I would hold the clipboard and help them in their casting sessions and get them lunch.

  Olivia Wilde

  Girl, Lunch, Directors

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• An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.

  Billy Wilder

  Entering, Actors, Window

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• I'm a born entertainer. When I open the fridge door and the light goes on, I burst into song.

  Robbie Williams

  Song, Light, Goes On

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• Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

  Tennessee Williams

  Success, Congratulations, Artist

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• A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Men

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 42e), 1980.

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