Opened Doors Quotes - Page 2

• I like to think I opened doors for other women, although that wasn't my original intention.

  Diahann Carroll

  Thinking, Doors, Intention

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

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• For the longest time I studied revenge to the exclusion of all else. I built my first torture chamber in the dark vaults of imagination. Lying on bloody sheets in the Healing Hall I discovered doors within my mind that I'd not found before, doors that even a child of nine knows should not be opened. Doors that never close again. I threw them wide.

  Mark Lawrence

  Children, Revenge, Lying

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.21, Penguin

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• My last name may have opened doors, but I have to keep them open.

  Lily Collins

  Doors, Names, May

  "Lily Collins' Exclusive Interview". www.seventeen.com. February 1, 2012.

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• I was young and ambitious and had the gift of dancing. I tried out for different things and the gift opened doors for me.

  Shonlock

  Doors, Dancing, Ambitious

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Speaking Spanish and Japanese has opened doors in my career and helped me bridge cultural differences, both in my personal and business life. During my football career I realised quickly what difference language skills can make

  Gary Lineker

  Football, Doors, Bridges

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• Who needs a dream? Who needs ambition? Who'd be the fool in my position? Once I had dreams, now they're obsessions. Hopes became needs, lovers possessions. Then they move in, oh so discretely. Slowly at first, smiling too sweetly. I opened doors, they walked right through them. Called me their friend, I hardly knew them... Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining. Times have been good, fast, entertaining. But what's the point if I'm concealing not only love, all other feeling.

  Tim Rice

  Dream, Moving, Ambition

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• If it wasn't for the British musicians, a lot of us black musicians in America would still be catchin' the hell that we caught long before. So thanks to them, thanks to all you guys. You opened doors that I don't think would have been opened in my lifetime. When white America started paying attention to the blues - it started opening a lot of doors that had been closed to us.

  B. B. King

  Thinking, White, America

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• Being an actor opened doors for me to explore my emotions as different people and characters, and expand my own inner soul.

  Scott Bakula

  Character, Doors, People

  "Scott Bakula Talks BEHIND THE CANDELABRA, Working with Steven Soderbergh, Why the Film Landed at HBO, BASMATI BLUES, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 26, 2013.

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• We are all what we are, in large degree, because of others who have helped, coached, taught, counseled, who set a standard by example, who've taken an interest in our interests, opened doors, opened our minds, helped us see, who gave encouragement when we needed it, who reprimanded or prodded when we needed it, and at critical moments, inspired.

  David McCullough

  Encouragement, Taken, Doors

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• To try something longer, I entered a half-hour radio drama contest with the national public broadcaster, CBC. To my surprise, I won. And that opened doors in film and television, because that broadcaster was looking to cultivate new Canadian talent, especially women who could write.

  Karen Walton

  Drama, Writing, Doors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• My name recognition has opened doors on the research side. I used to go into crack houses and drug markets and really bad neighborhoods by myself, routinely, and hang out. Sometimes I still do, because I don't want to attract attention. But lately, I've been riding with cops and gaining access to other types of law, like the ATF guys, just because of my name. I guess it's a smarter way to work.

  George Pelecanos

  Doors, Law, Names

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• For years I feared the opening of every elevator, half-convinced that from the opened doors would come a bullet, for me, shot by a man in a tan trenchcoat. I have no idea why I feared this, expected it to happen. I even knew how I would react to this bullet coming from the elevator door, what word I would say. That word was: Finally.

  Dave Eggers

  Men, Doors, Years

  "A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius (Mistakes We Knew We Were Making)". Book by Dave Eggers, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2001.

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• Getting to play the part of Selena was life-changing for me, i got to immerse myself in her life, got to know her family, her home, her culture ... every part of her story. It was a special time in my life both professionally and personally. Playing her not only opened doors for me in the film world, but it inspired me to start my own music career. In a lot of ways, I wouldn't be where I am today if I hadn't had that experience.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Life, Music, Home

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