- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doors Quotes
On the doors that open once curiosity or opportunity shows up.
Here doors stand in for opportunity and access — a breakout role that changed how an actor was treated, a call for a nation to stay open to newcomers, and the idea that curiosity keeps leading somewhere new. For more, see Behind quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Big Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we crowbar our way in.
- Differences
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- Nov 07, 2020
As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
- Newspaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being Sexiest Woman Alive definitely didn't just open all the doors for me, which I thought it would. I thought, 'This is going to be huge for me!' And it really wasn't at all.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try not to shut any doors before I even get there. I like doing music. I like singing. I love all music. Music kind of goes hand in hand with acting anyway.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
At one point, my house was a school for autistic children. I opened up my doors to about 30 kids and their families at the time. I was turning into Mary Poppins because I had to do something for these kids who have nowhere to go. So my house was the school for two years.
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- Nov 07, 2020