There are many doors to the heart.
When we moved base to Mumbai, I was noticed by Terence Lewis, who offered me a scholarship from his dance foundation. That is when doors opened up for me.
Everyone has opportunities and different doors that are opened to them in different ways. In the end, if you’re talented you’ll get work, if you’re not, you won’t, so it doesn’t really matter who you know.
After completing a Delaware State education, they were afforded opportunities beyond anything they might have imagined – and they opened doors for themselves that surely would have remained closed if they only had a high school education.
The old sergeant from headquarters treats me like a son and takes the greatest pride in whatever I do or write. He regularly assigns me now to certain doors, and I always obey orders like the little gentleman that I am.
I’ve endured humiliating experiences trying to get a cab in the various cities I’ve visited and lived in. Available taxis – as indicated by their roof lights – locked their doors with embarrassingly loud clicks as I approached. Or they’ve just ignored my hail altogether.
The world of fine dining can be frightening, if it’s not what you grew up in. I think when the doors are just thrown open, and you’re given the confidence to step into that world without any barriers at all, and you’re made to feel very welcome in it, that you belong, then it’s no longer as frightening.
There is going to be a hundred thousand doors slammed in your face before one opens, so feel ok about taking rejection.
The only time I’m not Hulk Hogan is when I’m behind closed doors because as soon as I walk out the front door, and somebody says hello to me, I can’t just say ‘hello’ like Terry. When they see me, they see the blond hair, the mustache, and the bald head, they instantly think Hulk Hogan.
I’ve always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy – that’s why I read: because I want to know other people’s secrets.
Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven’s ‘Eighth’ does?
I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I’m sure it’s opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I’ve been pretty effective once I’ve gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.
I wandered along to the chemistry labs, more or less on the rebound, and asked about becoming a research student. It was the ’60s, a time of university expansion: the doors were open, and a 2:1 was good enough to get me in.
When I started getting so many haters and closed doors, I decided to prove that it could be done. I was a divorced single mother of three at the time and a size 12 – not your typical model artist that labels feel work for the music industry.
As Vietnam increasingly opens its doors, it will reap the rewards of progress for its people.
Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs – we love all that.
Bands like Arcade Fire finding a larger audience has opened a lot of doors. They’ve empowered a whole community in Montreal.
I do think, even though you are a public figure, I do think you should be entitled to your privacy, and I do think that there are things that go on in relationships and behind closed doors that are completely private.
I’ll never know what happens behind closed doors or why I don’t get hired for things.
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.
I’m aware people will think I’ve had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they’ll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I’m no good.
I adored my mother, and I will always have extraordinary memories about her and remember her, and she opened the doors for me to appreciate arts.
Steve Warren’s work and career have opened doors for out professionals across the entertainment industry. In addition to advocating for LGBT people, he has continuously mobilized a large base of high-profile allies to help bring about social change.
Eric Church knocks down doors everywhere he goes.
At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.
I’m just opening the doors. And a lot of this is new to me – thinking about it, and letting go again and again and again, trusting that if I’m meant to continue working as a musician, it’ll happen. If I’m not, then pull out the life support.
I think that you need to balance a critique of feminine, patriarchal beauty ideals while simultaneously understanding how they can make you safe, and they can make you feel safe, and they can open up certain doors for you that would have been closed.
I always say ‘Knocked Up’ opened the doors, and ‘Hangover’ just burst it wide open. To this day, it’s still surreal. And my wife’s a doctor. All our friends are doctors – our close friends. And it’s just that I have an odd job now. I think I’m like a doctor who had a detour, and I just have an odd job.
You know, Sal, for a long time would hate taking elevators with me. Because he knew when those doors closed I was going to do something stupid to embarrass him. So he’d opt to take the stairs a lot.
The sky is the limit now, us women are showing that we can beat men and hopefully it will open more doors.
I don’t have this obsessive need to do street art all the time because it’s already opened doors for me.
I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.
The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can’t walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they’re really – the important people are the people he photographs.
Brandy opened a lot of doors for me and is still helping me out. If I never ever swayed from being ‘Brandy’s brother,’ it wouldn’t be a problem. But being real to yourself, it shines through.
Doors open because you’re beautiful, but I wouldn’t cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains.
All that time I spent chasing Yale was time I could have been using to actually make a difference in the world. Bravery, not perfection, was the key that unlocked all the doors I’ve walked through since.
The big mathematical challenge for flying robots is making them move in six dimensions: x, y, z, pitch, yaw and roll. We create 3-D obstacle courses in the lab – windows, doors, hula-hoops taped to posts – and ask the robots to fly through. It looks like a Harry Potter Quidditch match.
I’m proud of who I am. I’m proud of my history. I’m proud of the women and the men who came before us who are black, and I’m proud of the women before me who are black and who have achieved so much, even though we have so much against us, and we don’t have those doors opening for us every day.
To see another fat girl on television, I think, is really powerful. I’m happy to open the doors for a younger generation of fat, black women to be visible, to be seen, to be heard.
With Singaporeans, you speak English, you’re well-educated, the doors open everywhere.
To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.
In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other’s art, so we can effect a synthesis.
No matter what, once the doors are open for business, the entrepreneur has no choice but to be directing multiple attacks at once – raising money, writing software, prototyping, selling, collecting, training, and marketing.
Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
There’s still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.
I think the secret of the world lies in the C major scale. The universe opens its doors when a major scale is played. There’s stuff going on in a major scale that is a direct connection to divine, universal hugeness.
I had faith that music would be able to take me somewhere. I didn’t know where. I just was like, ‘Keep having faith, and any doors that open, I’ll walk through them and see what happens from there.’
I’d never put all my chips anywhere, because I don’t want to close any doors, but I was raised in a very blue-collar family. I was raised by parents who said, ‘If you don’t go to work every day, you’re not contributing’, so that’s my mentality. I have to work every day; I have to bring home a paycheck.
When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you. Your posture is a little more erect; your shoulders are a little further back; your style is a little more dynamic. It’s about the reestablishment of the gentleman.
When I had my first show at Artists Space in 1979, I imagined my life like game show. There were two doors: one door had a big dollar sign on it, and the other just had sort of a blurry picture of a newspaper – the money door or the critical response and acclaim door.
