No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.
I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.
When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - it's beyond belief.
i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses
The reality is when you open a door, there is no sense in closing it - so I would never say, 'I'll never act again.' But it's definitely not my priority.
I'm afraid of making a mistake. I'm not totally neurotic, but I'm pretty neurotic about it. I'm as close to totally neurotic as you can get without being totally neurotic.
A close girlfriend of mine and I have been writing and playing together for years and decided to make it official, so we formed a band called 'Everly.'
To close a fellow human being in your heart compels more respect than attending 1000 Christmas Masses.
I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.
If you want to uncover problems you don't know about, take a few moments and look closely at the areas you haven't examined for a while. I guarantee you problems will be there.
At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.
I never brought it up when I coached, but I have close ties at Ohio State. Unfortunately, I even have a graduate degree from there.
On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
I'm a terrible procrastinator. When we go to the airport, if they're not literally closing the door behind my sweaty, hyperventilating body, I feel I've been there too long.
It takes a while to get a movie together, and they don't start talking books until the movie is close to being finished.
Too often we shape our public positions on the basis of our economic connections. That brings us dangerously close to economic determinism.
Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.
I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close.
