Door Quotes
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While I had no intention of ending the series after 'The Spellmans Strike Again,' I did close many doors in that book and, with the fifth one, I was opening a lot of doors and not finding anything behind them and then opening another door and another until I found something. It was a while before I found my stride.
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I called the book 'The Senator Next Door,' not 'The President Next Door.'
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I'm aware me getting a role out of Chicago as a complete unknown is an insane anomaly, so I knew I'd have to get out here to L.A. as soon as the door opened.
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If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.
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I know that my foot is firmly wedged in the door, and I'll be damned if I pull it out, even for a second.
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You want to be a trader, come be a trader. The door's open. You want to travel six days a week, you want to travel the world, the door's open.
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All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.
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Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door.
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The eight-year-long Algerian war was to bring down six French prime ministers, open the door to de Gaulle - and come close to destroying him, too. The war was the last of the grand-style colonial struggles, but, perhaps more to the point, it was also the first campaign in which poorly equipped Muslim mujahedin licked one of the top Western armies.
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I usually shower the night before, lay out all my clothes on the floor, so then I just fall into them, clean my teeth, stumble out the door, get into my car and go wherever it is that we're shooting. You have breakfast on set.
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Without stepping out the door, you can know the world.
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One thing you notice is that you want to walk in the door in the morning. So it's a nice job.
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The Census Bureau can ask citizens very invasive questions, and if they don't respond, the government shows up at their door and threatens them with a fine.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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You have to think there's a reason for everything. When a door closes another door opens.
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I may be the girl next door, but you wouldn't want to live next to me.
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It's like an OCD thing, it's not as much something I enjoy. If I see a chapstick that I've never tried, I have to buy it. And then once that door's been opened, I have to check the whole store to see if there are more chapsticks that I don't have.
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No one likes the house next door to look worse or a lot better than his own.
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Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
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Behind every locked door on Skid Road are a thousand stories.
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When Nixon opened the door to China in the early 1970s, Chinese artists got their first view of the West. Suddenly five centuries of Western art lay before them as a stylistic smorgasbord. Chinese artists could reinterpret it out of admiration or try to replace it. They choose the former.
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Add there was that moment when my mother and father walked in the door disguised as old people. I thought the miles in the car had bent them, dulled their eyes, even grayed and whitened their hair and caused their hands and voices to tremble. At the same time, I found, as I rose form the chair, I'd gotten old along with them.
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I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside.
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The heart of a girl is like a convent--the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door.
