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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.

~Barbara Tuchman

Topics: Closed Door Library Me More Nothing Than

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If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'

~Barbara W. Tuchman

Topics: Around Barbara Door Everybody Female Housewife Just Just Something Locked Man Ordinary Past People People Say Professional Say Something Wanted Writer You

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In medical school, it's quite possible to get taught that you can diagnose everybody and treat everything. But then you get out in the real world and find that for most patients walking through your door, you have no idea what's causing their symptoms.

~Barry Marshall

Topics: Causing Door Everybody Everything Find Get Idea Medical Medical School Most No Idea Out Patients Possible Quite Real Real World School Symptoms Taught The Real World Then Through Treat Walking World You Your

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I'd get to within a yard of that door you walk through and the thing would go mad. I used to carry an X-ray in my briefcase, to show them. But I had all the metal taken out.

~Barry Sheene

Topics: Carry Door Get Go Had Mad Metal Out Show Taken Them Thing Through Used Walk Within Would Yard You X-Ray

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Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real space, in three dimensions, in flesh and blood. I realized I had been trying to cram all this narrative into my paintings, but ultimately painting was a static medium. So it just opened up this whole new door.

~Beau Willimon

Topics: Ability Been Blood Cram Dimensions Door Everything Flesh Had Just Me Medium Narrative New Opened Painting Paintings Plays Real Real Time Realized Space Static Stories Supplied Tell Three Time Trying Ultimately Up Which Whole Writing

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I actually fall asleep really easily. I'm a bit of a scaredy-cat, though, I have to make sure that all the doors are closed, the front door is locked three times, and then make sure everything is covered and look under the bed.

~Bel Powley

Topics: Actually Asleep Bed Bit Closed Covered Door Doors Easily Everything Fall Front Front Door Locked Look Make Really Sure The Doors Then Though Three Times

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Next door, there's an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.

~Ben Folds

Topics: Away Belong Couple Day Days Door His Know Lived Man Next Next Door Nineties Old Old Man One Day Passed She Sleep Sorry Stayed Strange Strange Way Tell Way Who Wife You

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I didn't start drama school until I was 20, and I don't think I would have gotten nearly as much out of it had I gone when I was 18. I didn't show up there to please anyone. After I was accepted, I wrote, 'The Audition's Over' and put it on the door of my dorm.

~Ben Schnetzer

Topics: Accepted After Anyone Audition Door Dorm Drama Drama School Gone Gotten Had Much Nearly Out Over Please Put School Show Start Think Until Up Would Wrote

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Let's bang the gong and chime for more Asian superheroes. The gatekeepers can certainly open the door - there's a wealth of East Asian talent around, and that needs to be tapped into.

~Benedict Wong

Topics: Around Asian Bang Certainly Door East Gatekeepers More Needs Open Superheroes Talent Wealth

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Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.

~Benjamin Banneker

Topics: About After Bullet Came Cannon Discharge Door Five Four Greater Gun Heard House Me One Or Two Plainly Rattling Seconds Shot Small Sound Standing Struck Than Time Two Velocity Which

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