Opening Quotes - Page 36

• Nothing goes perfectly, especially when you're opening a restaurant.

  Bobby Flay

  Restaurants

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• The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.

  Alastair Campbell

  Mouths, Royal, Causes

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• Adopting means opening your home, and heart, to a life you've never known. But there is nothing as richly rewarding as being an adoptive parent.

  Michael Gove

  Home, Heart, Mean

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• I'd be lying if I said it wasn't fun to go to these nights out, like the opening of a film or something, but I dip in and out of it.

  Billy Boyd

  Fun, Lying, Night

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• And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view.

  Ulrich Beck

  Views, Voice, World

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• I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Country, School, Eye

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• Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening.

  Andrew Davies

  Drama, Needs, Tvs

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• The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

  John Fahey

  Opening Up, Unconscious, Composition

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• In fact he enables us not by making us supernaturally strong, but by opening our eyes. The Holy Spirit is that power which opens eyes that are closed, hearts that are unaware and minds that shrink from too much reality.

  John Taylor

  Strong, Eye, Heart

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• The minute you have more than one voice, you have more possibilities opening up. You have all the molecules in all of those bodies and their make up interacting.

  Robert Altman

  Voice, Opening Up, Molecules

  "Still up to mischief" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2004.

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• Where's the upside in opening your mouth?

  Ted Turner

  Mouths

  "Ted's tears". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2002.

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• We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.

  John Lehman

  Ocean, Opening Up, Eras

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• The most important thing about Olympics, of course, is the games and not the opening ceremony. It's weird the way it gets inverted sometimes.

  Danny Boyle

  Opening Ceremony, Games, Important

  "127 Hours - Danny Boyle interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I think that when you have somebody who really is kind of forced to see the world through someone else's eyes, I think it really is eye opening.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Eye, Thinking, World

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The corporations have become our government. They're not just influential. Department by department, you name it, they put their people in high government positions, they have 10,000 PACs and 35,000 lobbyists, so there's no more opening to be heard.

  Ralph Nader

  Government, Names, People

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 24, 2008.

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• Sometimes I can see colour without opening my eyes. I saw that Billy's heart was no colour and every colour. Like water or diamonds or crystals, it's pure and reflects the light.

  Glenda Millard

  Heart, Eye, Light

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• You have to strike hard from the beginning and create a depressurizing zone between the viewer's own life and the one onscreen. The creators of James Bond got it right: the attention-grabbing scene of each Bond movie is the very first one, before the opening credits.

  Claude Lelouch

  Firsts, Attention, Credit

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• When an audience is laughing, that's opening their souls somehow, and when you have an audience with an open soul, it's much better to hit them with a knife.

  Fatih Ak?n

  Knives, Laughing, Soul

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.

  Gaspar Noe

  Character, Doors, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every door is a door opening to another door!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Doors

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• Illness sets the stage for the opening of our hearts.

  Judith Orloff

  Heart, Illness, Stage

  Judith Orloff (2012). “Dr. Judith Orloff's Guide to Intuitive Healing: 5 Steps to Physical, Emotional, and Sexual Wellness”, p.21, Harmony

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• When your opponent gives you an opening, be swift as a hare.

  Sun Tzu

  Giving, Opponents, Hares

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• Interestingly, the very experience of fear itself is the tip-off moment, the signal that a possibility for action is opening up and so a choice needs to be made.

  Robert Biswas-Diener

  Opening Up, Choices, Needs

  Robert Biswas-Diener (2012). “The Courage Quotient: How Science Can Make You Braver”, p.147, John Wiley & Sons

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• To be creative, an idea must also be appropriate - useful and actionable. It must somehow influence the way business gets done by improving a product, for instance, or by opening up a new way to approach a process.

  Teresa Amabile

  Ideas, Opening Up, Creative

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• Art is a window to The Infinite, and opening to the goddess, a portal through which you and I, with the help of the artist, may discover depths and heights of our soul undreamed of by the vulgar world. Art is the eye of the spirit, through which the sublime can reach down to us, and we up to it, and be transformed, transfigured in the process.

  Ken Wilber

  Art, Eye, Soul

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