When I first starting conceiving series like ‘Courtney,’ ‘Polly,’ ‘How Loathsome,’ etc., I was shooting for closed story-arcs but open-ended concepts. Then I started realizing I was committing myself to potentially endless series.
I like writing with people. I think the times that I’ve closed myself off to not writing with people, I haven’t gotten the best product because I haven’t had anyone to go back and forth with and really discuss what’s going on in my life, what’s going on in their life. It’s so important to have that connection.
Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
The West is now closed.
So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice.
Let’s face it: families behind closed doors are the funniest thing ever – the way people talk to each other, the way you fight for 30 seconds, and then all of a sudden you’re crying. Families are just ripe for comedy.
When I was 14, I thought I looked terrible. I wore these typical Slavic shoes with metal bottoms so you could always hear me coming and this really ugly princess skirt and blouse with the top button closed. I had a boy haircut, a baby face covered with pimples, and a really big nose.
I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It’s more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
For about seven years. I really like it there. There are a lot of great musicians. The scene is very open. A lot of stuff going on. People’s ears are really open, they are not closed. A lot of scenes here, people just get tunnel vision and are into one thing.
In the middle of ‘Bleed Red’ coming out, a huge disproportionate majority of people in radio came to us and asked if they could have ‘Cost of Livin’ as a single. There was even talk behind closed doors about pulling ‘Bleed Red’ because they had caught wind and heard ‘Cost of Livin’.’ We went with that.
Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax money.
Studies demonstrate that as gaps are being closed between men and women – in access to education, in health, even in economic participation – the most difficult gap to close is in political participation. Somehow that sharing of raw power, political power, remains very illusive.
The English book world is relatively closed to translation, so only a small amount of foreign language work can come in.
My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn’t a job.
Congressional dysfunction is the logical result of closed primaries, too many gerrymandered one-party seats, and low-turnout elections.
We made drawings the size of a whole quarter of a room ceiling, which we would then send on to the model makers. I did this every day for two years. Even now I can draw cartouches with my eyes closed.
As far as I’m concerned, the book’s never closed with Sabbath!
In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren’t happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn’t exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn’t have existed without the openness of the platform.
As Chloe, I can honestly say I’ve never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors.
We’re always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who’ve closed down. And there are times in one’s life when one has to close down just to regroup.
I don’t believe in closed scripts; I think that they should be open.
One of the problems with hedge funds is that they are changing so rapidly. If you have the balance sheet that closed business last night, by 11 A.M. this morning, that won’t tell you very much about what they’re doing.
Open shelving may be fashionable, but a closed cabinet door is the best way to stop grease and dust collecting in the first place.
When we exercise, it feels like we’re really out there doing something, whereas spending a few minutes with your eyes closed in meditation may feel a little, well, wimpy.
Brexit has changed everything in British politics – it has blown open a cosy, zombie-like closed world of Westminster parliamentary politics. It has broken open the traditional line between left and right, which was already an exhausted tradition.
While most of us have long understood that privacy is a fading commodity, something in human nature still expects that a phone call or email is a closed communication, and we tend to behave as though it is. That behaviour is what the electronic spies count upon, and want to preserve.
In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
Television has changed. There’s obviously the generic shows, but on HBO and AMC, there are some really great series, so I’m not closed off to television. If there’s an amazing role with amazing people and a great story, I’d definitely be open to it.
I was a very closed person before, and I wouldn’t say how I felt about things, and now I’ve kind of opened myself up. And it’s scary.
Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
Closed mouths don’t get fed, and I’m gonna eat every time I get on the court.
Very little useful science got done in the space station. NASA never did the experiments needed to develop the technologies required for a genuine interplanetary expedition: centrifugal gravity to avoid bodily harm and a truly closed biosphere.
I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we’re looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors – can you imagine wearing those corsets?
You never know what goes on behind closed doors.
When you are standing in a corner at the party, when you’ve arrived early for the meeting, when the doors have closed but the lift won’t start, there’s nothing worse than being lost for words.
If ‘The New York Times’ didn’t exist, CNN and MSNBC would be a test pattern. ‘The Huffington Post’ and everything else is predicated on ‘The New York Times’. It’s a closed circle of information from which Hillary Clinton got all her information – and her confidence.
There is an intimacy and trust that is needed between leaders, between their assistants and advisers. Usually, you have the real substance behind closed doors; and the press conferences, you have niceties, nice photo ops.
I would assume the case will never be closed.
A mind should not be so open that the brains fall out; however, it should not be so closed that whatever gray matter which does reside may not be reached.
And, strangely, this one of the few things in life that the third, the latter, the buy with our eyes closed has actually done better than everybody else.
I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren’t there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in.
Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue.
Ballet is a closed world and very rigid; MGM was a fairyland. You’d walk down the lot, seeing all these fabulous movies being made with the greatest talent in the world sitting there. It was a dream to walk through that lot.
Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.
I was happy that at home we were a closed circle and then we went out playing chess and saw the world. It’s a very difficult life and you have to be very careful, especially the parents, who need to know the limits of what you can and can’t do with your child.
If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China’s emissions would replace America’s emissions in 12 years.
I remember integrating the all-white Yazoo City High School after my Black school closed its doors. Teachers sprayed me with fire extinguishers, and I carried a stick to fend off attacks from fellow students.
I never slept when I lost. I’d see the sun come up without ever having closed my eyes. I’d see those base hits over and over and they would drive me crazy.
