“I think where people tend to end up results from a combination of encouragement, accident, and lucky break, etc. etc. Like many others, my career happened like it did because certain doors opened and certain doors closed.”
As quoted in "The Art of Connection – A Conversation with Alain de Botton" by Kim Nagy in Wild River Review (19 November 2007).
Context: I think where people tend to end up results from a combination of encouragement, accident, and lucky break, etc. etc. Like many others, my career happened like it did because certain doors opened and certain doors closed. You know, at a certain point I thought it would be great to make film documentaries. Well, in fact, I found that to be incredibly hard and very expensive to do and I didn’t really have the courage to keep battling away at that. In another age, I might have been an academic in a university, if the university system had been different. So it’s all about trying to find the best fit between your talents and what the world can offer at that point in time.
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“I would like to think that some of my work has opened up people’s thinking about certain areas.”
Alan Moore on Anarchism (2009)
Context: I would like to think that some of my work has opened up people’s thinking about certain areas. On a very primitive level, it would be nice to think that people thought a little bit differently about the comics medium as a result of my work, and saw greater possibility in it. And realized what a useful tool for disseminating information it was. That would be an accomplishment. That would have added a very useful implement to the arsenal of people who are seeking social change, because comics can be an incredibly useful tool in that regard. I’d also like to think that perhaps, on a higher level, that some of my work has the potential to radically change enough people’s ideas upon a subject. To perhaps, eventually, decades after my own death, affect some kind of minor change in the way that people see and organize society. Some of my magical work that I’ve done is an attempt to get people to see reality and it’s possibilities in a different light. I’d like to think that that might have some kind of impact eventually.
“Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise”
“I like to consider my mind an open door. It's just not a revolving door.”
[ATTN JMS: Are you a millionaire ?, J. Michael Straczynski, 2002-07-20, rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated, 20020720000422.11234.00000533@mb-fx.aol.com, http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated/msg/5d0fa989a5c65112]
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
“When one door is closed, many more is open.”
Coming in from the Cold, from the album Confrontation
Song lyrics
“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.”
Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.”
Se me abre una puerta, entro y me hallo con cien puertas cerradas.
Voces (1943)
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