- Men
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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
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers, with hundreds of short stories every month, don't exist. Most of the doors for new people have been sealed.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember how my mom would take me on the subway from Queens to Broadway. We'd go to the offices of casting agents. Many doors were slammed in our faces. I was just a boy, but I remember that well.
- Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was reading a magazine when I was a little kid, probably about twelve years old, and an ad said that if you sell so many jars of Noxzema skin cream, we'll sell you a ukulele. So I went out and banged on doors in the snow in Quincy, Massachusetts, where I was raised, and I sold the skin cream.
- Glass
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- Nov 07, 2020
I stumbled upon the 3x1 shop because it's a few doors up from the 'V' magazine offices on Mercer. The store is intense: They can take your measurements, and the sewers are right there behind glass making what amounts to a couture pair of jeans.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
They were totally supportive, always saw everything I did. One of the thrills of my life was when they went to the theater to see something that I wasn't in. It opened doors for them that otherwise would have been totally closed.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
While the United States is closing doors, Canada is opening them. While U.S. President Donald Trump is slouching toward authoritarianism, Canada is safeguarding democracy.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have the money to travel until I got to the NFL, so it's definitely opened doors for me in that capacity.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other lands. My God, right within reach there were dinosaurs and planets and presidents and girl detectives!
- Opportunities
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think NXT has opened up the doors for a lot of guys to come in and create different opportunities.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
We took over with 'Leverage' three warehouses, and now four with 'The Librarians,' and turned them into proper sound stages with sound doors and all the lights. We now have control of four real, proper-sized sound stages. The problem is they're dark and empty half of the year because there aren't enough productions coming into Oregon.
- Kitchen
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mama had her little cough. Once or twice, some quiet sobbing, out of sight... Or the slamming of kitchen cupboard doors. That was her language.
- Clockwork
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me - one of them being Star Wars.
- Amazing
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- Nov 07, 2020