Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It’s absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors. – Paul Schrader
The fact is… our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft’s business practices. – Orrin Hatch
I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked? – Richard Russo
The success of ‘The Simpsons’ really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn’t necessarily have to be working in kids’ television. – Seth MacFarlane
You’re put in certain situations and it kind of opens up those doors and it opens up your eyes to realize what your true calling was. – Rico Love
You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you’re in another world. – Robert Caro
I definitely think it opened doors for me and what was so fantastic about ‘Downton’ being showed over in the States, was that it helped get me noticed. – Rose Leslie
The Doors were successful. It was Jim Morrison as the centre and the figure and the spokesman, the figurehead, but we were all into the same thing. That’s why we were a band. – Ray Manzarek
Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words. – Robert Grosseteste
The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter. – Robert McChesney
When I graduated, I was told I was the first Latino to have three graduate degrees from Harvard. And Harvard does something amazing to you. It opens the doors to the world. – Raul Ruiz
I think over time I’ve learned to stop being a screamer and get interactive; otherwise, you get killed in Hollywood. I stopped being a screamer shortly after ‘Blade Runner,’ kicking doors and things like that, because I wasn’t actually getting anywhere. – Ridley Scott
By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world. – Roger Mahony
Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows. – Robert Fortune
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. – Ottessa Moshfegh
The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences; a country that respects all, regardless of their differences; a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences. – Paul Martin
Requiring companies to weaken devices with ‘back doors’ means we open up innocent Americans to the bad actors who would love easier access to our citizens’ personal information. – Suzan DelBene
I’ve always got into stunts; even at drama school, I was falling down trap doors, and swinging in on ropes. – Thomas Howes
I need to just make as much noise and bang on as many doors as possible ’til men are, like, giving you the recognition. – Stormzy
I rode the buses in L.A. until I was in my early 30s, and there’s something about driving or riding through L.A. after sundown, when the Utopian city goes into hiding and another city comes out, more Doors and less Byrds. – Steve Erickson
Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities. – Solomon Ortiz
The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That’s the success of a piece. – Twyla Tharp
I’d always thought that ‘NYPD Blue’ really would open those doors. While I think it created a much broader template for cable, I don’t think it really did that much for network television. – Steven Bochco
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. – Tzipi Livni
