Quotes About Inspiration

My bassist Jorgen Jorgensen opened up my life to a lot of great, obscure old soul records.

Sonya has opened up a huge light for me. Now that we travel so much together around the world, she's helped me open up and be so involved in the LGBTQ community.

At Sunderland, our kit was five times too big, and we got the local bus to games; in America, I got bags of Nike kit, flew to away games, and played in front of thousands of fans. It opened my eyes to what women's football could - and should - be.

Hillbilly Rock' was the song that opened the door and gave me a reason to get a bus and a band and cowboy clothes to go out there and figure it out in front of everybody. And the hits started coming.

I never really understood the game until I saw Cruyff's Barcelona play. The first time that happened it opened up a new world to me. I began to understand that football was a collective thing, and that association between players meant you could keep the ball the whole game.

I got a dollhouse when I was six, and my sister would always say, 'You realize you're just talking to yourself. What are you doing?' That kind of opened up this creative need to tell stories.

Basketball did not save my life. God saved my life. It's not basketball. But God saved my life because he blessed me through basketball. He opened the door from basketball.

As I've opened up, the less negative comments there are. Ninety-eight percent of followers love what I'm doing for fashion, for tennis, for coming back from an injury. They follow the part that inspires them.

So when I went to Arista, I had a period of writing where I suddenly was unrestricted. I wasn't writing for a band for the first time. It opened up a whole other arena for me to work within.

Frieda Pinto has definitely opened Hollywood doors for Indian actresses.

Chorus Line' opened things up a bit. Any show that's successful does that. But 'Chorus Line' was about dancers.

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor has opened my eyes in many ways.

When we moved base to Mumbai, I was noticed by Terence Lewis, who offered me a scholarship from his dance foundation. That is when doors opened up for me.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Music is a way of opening up.

I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

Our mission to space had to serve a bigger purpose, which is why St. Jude is such a big part of this. It can't simply just be about opening the door to space for everyday people.

I'm opening gyms around the world to encourage people to get in shape and feel good about themselves; bringing art through dance to gyms to make my gyms different from other people's.

I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experience that inspires every American to rededicate themselves to the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream.

The more and more I work with really great actors, the more it's about opening yourself up to what they bring.

In fact, I don't think I'll ever make anything that will feel as divinely dropped in my lap as the opening of 'Wall-E.'

I've been very happy to see some of the success that I've had along the way in opening the eyes of people, especially people who listen to music.

Great stories start with great opening lines. 'I'm a lineman for the county' - what a great way to start a song.

My character in 'Mr. Holland's Opus' was kind of coming of age, learning about a world that was opening up to her.