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The music industry is an unforgiving place, and it shall unceremoniously show you the door if you can't perform to high standards.
When an underdog wins, they win for everybody, because somebody gotta come through that door and break it open and make it possible.
I had been working for eight years and all I had to show for it was this horrible debt. At one point we had the bailiff at the door.
Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.
I won't admit to having a poster of Borg on my bedroom door. But I certainly found him to be someone who got me way more into tennis.
When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
I've become aware of being in a very male-dominated industry where a door opens and it's like, 'Oh hello, it's 12 men and me. Again.'
I grew up black in segregated America, where it was hard to find an open door. It's harder now for young blacks to find a closed one.
The girl next door isn't necessarily blonde and blue-eyed anymore. So I don't feel like I need to morph into that all-American thing.
Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.
I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours.
My studio is designed for atmosphere. I have a really cozy, comfortable room that has a great, huge glass door that views my backyard.
Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay.
When Arsenal knocks on any door, it's difficult to say no. When it knocks on my door, this is my house and it makes it very difficult.
It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling.
I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.
I'm very down-to-earth and approachable, and I can be one of the guys and watch sports... I like to cook - I'm like the girl next door.
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.
I was very pushed to look a certain way and act a certain way, and it wasn't me, but I played by their rules to get my foot in the door.
There is no question that knowing someone in the business will get you in the door. But it is your skill that will keep you in the room.
My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play.
For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.
I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
I have a sliding glass door on my closet, and when I slide it one way I can see all my uniforms, and the other way is all my own clothes.
I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?
I live in a neighborhood that's really filled with sound - there's a lot of Jamaican auto body shops, and the guys next door play hip hop.
Choosing to write a play is some kind of surrender. I don't make an outline. I sit and work, and suddenly the door opens, and out it comes.
With the R&B, gospel feel that 'Sparkle' has, that opens the door for my fans to be more accepting of that sound and also for me to try it.
I'm a character actress. I'm the girl next door, the aunt, the quirky cousin. You have to innately know who you are and be happy with that.
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
I can now video chat with my grandkids from any corner of the world, listen to music, or order food and have it delivered to my front door.
What used to be called 'good manners' is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a young woman, and she's likely to call security.
An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk by.
My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin their own explorations.
To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.
I assure, the door to politics is never closed. Whatever medium is necessary to reach the masses, I will take that - be it cinema or politics.
My mother raised me to open the car door, open the door; if you take a woman out, you should pick up the check, and blah blah blah - whatever.
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.
The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.
There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door.
I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited.'
There are so many people that want to tell stories. I think that the issue is how hard it is to get your foot in the door to tell your stories.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
You start acting just as soon as you walk into the door of that casting office. You can't just be yourself because they don't want to hire you.
Women have that weird way of trying to be feminist. You know, like 'hear me roar.' But what they really want is a man to open the door for them.
In the fourth grade, I learned how to fake walking into a door. You know, you hit it with your hand and snap your head back. The girls loved it.
Twice I got thrown out of casino, literally thrown out by my feet thrown through the front door when I thought I had caught a cheater one night.
Sundays in France have a different atmosphere to other days, with fewer phone calls, no postman, no delivery men and no one banging on the door.
There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living next door to Chernobyl.