#opened

It was a terrible blow that was dealt when I was fired from 'Saturday Night Live', but I have to say that a few doors opened right away. Movie roles started to roll in, and pretty soon, I was over it. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#blow #dealt #doors #few #fired

As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot. ↗

— Sanjay Dutt

#audience #comfortable #considerably #dancing #doing

Sometimes my life opened its eyes in the dark. A feeling as if crowds drew through the streets in blindness and anxiety on the way towards a miracle, while I invisibly remain standing. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

#blindness #crowds #dark #drew #eyes

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#africa #bible #came #closed #eyes

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#average #average woman #file #opened #rank

Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities. ↗

— Mary Frances Berry

#civil rights #create #does #everybody #get

In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I'll play the scene back in my mind and think, I did that wrong - I should've opened the door more slowly. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#ago #back #bed #book #come

Then you've got Georgetown, and I really just like everything about them. When I went down there with my mom, it really opened my eyes to what they were all about. I have to factor in what a school like that can do for me, even away from being a basketball player. ↗

— Nerlens Noel

#away #ball player #basketball #basketball player #being

I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#amongst #anne #art #associated #her

I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me. ↗

— Evan Parker

#came #decision #discovered #doors #having