Opening Quotes - Page 40

• I really want readers to put themselves into the shoes of each character. So the opening lines are an orienting technique: this is where you are, this is who you are. Go.

  Alissa Nutting

  Character, Shoes, Technique

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've collaborated with artists that truly run the gamut: from members of the Wu Tang Clan and Capone, to Moby, Lady Gaga, and opening for artists such as Sheryl Crow, Jack White, and Chris Shiflett of the Foo Fighters, etc.

  Wendy Starland

  Running, Artist, White

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• Country [China] needs to continue opening up and keep connecting. It needs to realize that the world has become one. The old concept of isolation, the idea that you can solve your problems on your own does not work anymore - neither in cultural, economic, nor political terms.

  Zhang Xin

  Country, Ideas, Opening Up

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and that led to my - it touched me in a way that really led to me opening up my heart, I've called it the re-humanisation process.

  Maajid Nawaz

  Heart, Opening Up, Amnesty International

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The technique of the book and the technique carried by the figure of Scheherazade is one of opening the Sultan's mind. He's emblematic of the ignorant person: the ignorant, lock-in, raging man who wants to kill all he doesn't understand. The model of the book is the extraordinary, very-large, Mirror of Princes.

  Marina Warner

  Book, Men, Mirrors

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I really like Katy Perry and the music she does. She's an amazing musician and it's an honour to be opening for her in London.

  Aino Jawo

  Musician, Doe, London

  "Interview: Icona Pop's Aino Jawo On Their New Album, 'this Is... Icona Pop'". Coup De Main Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.

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• Really connecting with someone and maybe opening their mind a little bit, is such a cool thing to be able to do through music.

  Kacey Musgraves

  Mind, Littles, Able

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• I think there are a lot of different things that dreams do for the individual and they're fascinating because it's not totally known what they do, but we have some science that is opening the door to a new world as we speak.

  Tom DeLonge

  Dream, Thinking, Doors

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• People who are following their dreams inspire me. I train at this relatively new gym in West Hollywood called Training Mate. It's owned by a former Australian football player named Luke Milton. The classes are mostly taught by other Australians that are just like Luke: fit, funny, cute, and approachable. Now they're talking about opening another location. He will open another location and be successful because he's following his dream. People like him inspire me because they make me think I can do it too.

  Dayna Devon

  Cute, Dream, Football

  "Fashion designer Dayna Devon: Pursuing new passions and plugging into mindfulness". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I handle my emotional pain by changing my mind-set. Exercising can exorcise emotional pain. Prayer and meditation. Visualization. Being able to talk about it by opening yourself to loved ones or a professional.

  Regina Taylor

  Prayer, Pain, Exercise

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• Walking my dogs twice a day provides me with an opening and closing of my day, and I've learned to use those walks for a walking meditation, which had never occurred to me until a friend gave me Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn years ago. It helped me take advantage of moments that already existed in my day and turn them into something more expansive.

  Patrick Fabian

  Dog, Years, Walking Meditation

  "Actor Patrick Fabian: The power of live music and being connected to emotions". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I've been burned a few times by people I've once considered good friends. When I call someone my "friend," I open up and share my entire life with them. That always makes me feel a little vulnerable, but I just love the idea of people mutually opening up to each other and sharing wisdom and life experiences together.

  Melanie Iglesias

  Good Friend, Ideas, Opening Up

  "Melanie Iglesias: The Practice of Happiness". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 9, 2014.

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• I was really looking forward to doing the thing that I do - I basically appear just at the beginning and at the end of the 'The Glory of the World' play - but when I got to opening night, I started to get really sad that that was the last time I was going to see the play as a spectator without actually being in it.

  Will Oldham

  Night, Play, Lasts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I do an opening in 'The Glory of the World' play at BAM, and then I go up to the high balcony in the back and watch the bulk of the play, but then I have to leave my seat about seven to 10 minutes before the end of that final big scene...and it's a bummer.

  Will Oldham

  Play, Watches, Finals

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We went on the opening weekend [of Star Wars], a group of us went out and just popped into a couple theaters just to see people in the theater watching the movie, and it was incredibly gratifying just to see the thing out there being watched by people. And the reaction was more than we could've expected.

  J. J. Abrams

  Stars, Couple, War

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Westbrook Pegler suggested that in the period, I think the late 40s, when the investigations of Communism were opening up during the Cold War, that she ought to be called and required to testify about what she knew. I remember he said, "Would the world vanish in a blast of flame if this old woman were subpoenaed and compelled to tell what she knows about the Communist Party's activities in the United States?"

  William A. Rusher

  War, Party, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Opening cans of chili in zero gravity to see how it looks, that's something that went wrong.

  Trish Sie

  Zero, Looks, Gravity

  "OK Go Drops New Zero-Gravity Video". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. February 14, 2016.

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• Since my Dad was an artist, I grew up around art shows and openings and that had a big impact on me as well, especially in L.A. So skateboarding was the cool thing to do and I was totally attracted to it and once I saw the magazines... that was it, I knew this was what I wanted to do for a living.

  Christian Hosoi

  Art, Dad, Impact

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• All of a sudden I was Joan [Mad Man] and they're going, "Oh, so she plays a badass in this." And I'm like, "Oh my god, I get to play badasses." Firefly was a little bit of that, but she started out as a mouse and then she turned into a dragon. But I never really had that opportunity. So all of a sudden people were like, "Oh, do you feel like you're being typecast?" I would say, "No, this is just opening the doors." No one thought I could do it and someone finally trusted me to do it.

  Christina Hendricks

  Badass, Firefly, Opportunity

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• It was interesting that feminists of my generation told me: You are discouraging younger women; you are confirming stereotypes of women; you are opening a door, initiating a debate, that will harm our movement. And my point was: We are already having this debate, especially in the younger generation.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Doors, Interesting, Feminist

  "Anne-Marie Slaughter – ‘This Country Is Ready for a Woman in the White House’". Interview with Britta Sandberg and Samiha Shafy, www.yerepouni-news.com. March 3, 2016.

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• We use technology to make it cheaper, better, and faster for the client. And then if you have the most flow, you can win. Now, having said that, Silicon Valley wants to take on this business. They think they see an opening.

  Jamie Dimon

  Winning, Technology, Thinking

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• Another thing you end up doing when you get older, is you spend so much time sort of trying desperately to keep from just looking just a little older. You're just constantly putting stuff on your face and having things removed from yourself and opening up copies of "Vogue" so that you can find new ways to throw whatever money you've managed to save into the arms of some doctor who has just come up with a new way of lasering your face that feels like electroshock and all these things.

  Nora Ephron

  Opening Up, Doctors, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I love clothes so much, I always have. It's awesome to have designers invite me to their shows and openings and send me samples of their work.

  Bethany Cosentino

  Clothes, Designer, Shows

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My proudest moment of my career was opening night in Cambridge and watching the cast take their curtain call. No one was looking at me, and I was floating off the ground. It was just euphoric.

  Sara Bareilles

  Night, Careers, Floating

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I loved Duran Duran's "Girls on Film" - it was really sexy and naughty and totally weird. When you're a kid watching that stuff on television you're like, "Well, we are opening up as a society!"

  Drew Barrymore

  Girl, Sexy, Kids

  "Best Coast: Our Deal". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 9, 2011.

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