'Homeland' was a sensation out of the gate in 2011, gathering acclaim and sweeping up Emmys, and the reason such shows are so overrated is because, unlike with other forms of popular art, success in TV is measured almost purely by how obsessive we become.
Steve Erickson
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People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.
Rufus Sewell
OpportunityPeopleDoorTalkGate
In this case we're building a corner to stretch a fence and hang a gate. It had a real purpose in the ranch here. I needed to do this. But at the same time, it made a beautiful structure.
Bruce Nauman
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Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.
Niki Lauda
GateEuropeViennaEastern Europe
Wherever Mantle went in the great metropolis - Danny's Hideaway, the Latin Quarter, the '21' Club, the Stork Club, El Morocco, Toots Shor's - his preferred drink was waiting when he walked through the door. Reporters waited at his locker for monosyllabic bons mots. Boys clustered by the players' gate, hoping to touch him.
Jane Leavy
GreatWaitingDoorTouchDrinkGate
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley
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I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.
Natasha Lyonne
SchoolSomeoneDoingActingGate
It's not like they just open the gate to Hollywood and off you go - you earn your stripes. I worked ferociously hard even just to get an agent.
Sophie Kennedy Clark
YouGoHollywoodHardGateStripes
When I'm in the starting gate, it's just me and the hill.
Mikaela Shiffrin
MeHillStartingGateJust
I am 23, the year of the iron birthday, the gate of darkness. I am ill.
Allen Ginsberg
BirthdayDarknessI AmYearGateAm
A lot of my favorite artists didn't sell much out the gate. I didn't with Common at first. Neither did first albums from Outkast, Nas, or Jay Z. It doesn't scare me.
No I.D.
MeFirstGateOutArtistsSell
My first film out of the gate was financially so successful that I guess, being in Hollywood, you get kind of put into a certain box.
James Wan
YouKindHollywoodFirstBoxGate
I believe the Rolling Stones wanted to play in Golden Gate Park.
Paul Kantner
BelievePlayGoldenI BelieveGate
When the gate drops, it's time to try and execute the best you can.
Nate Holland
TimeBestYouTryDropsGate
If you are focused on profits right out of the gate, you're gonna have the smallest profitable business that has ever been seen.
Travis Kalanick
BusinessYouFocusedRightGateOut
My parents wielded disposal cameras and Polaroids with the best of them, occasionally begging for at least one decent photo of my brother and me at the state fair, in front of the Golden Gate bridge, or smiling half-heartedly next to a mascot.
Mary Pilon
BestBrotherParentsMeBridgeGate
As a newcomer, you know, you don't come out the gate as a singer and try to compare with Judy Garland.
Allison Tolman
YouKnowTryGateOutSinger
Younger kids should realize that if dancing is what you wanna do, it's not always gonna be the easiest thing; you're not always going to end up dancing for Justin Timberlake right out the gate.
Ryan Guzman
EndYouRealizeRightDancingGate
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
Horace
DeathManKingsPoorGatePale
It's all about work when you reach up, tap in and step on that field. You don't mess around when you go through that gate.
Lawrence Jackson
WorkStepReachYouGoGate
When I used to go to Elvis's house was always a nightmare trying to get into the house because of so many fans outside the gate and he really couldn't go anywhere without sneaking in or doing something because people just wanted to be around him and to be with him.
Jackie DeShannon
PeopleDoingTryingHouseGoGate
No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.
John Calvin
GodMenManBackGateSalvation
I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on the gate, stare at the vegetable beds and ponder.
Tom Hodgkinson
RainDayGardeningI AmWindGate
By August 2008, we had left Voikovskaya and moved into a wooden dacha in the artists' colony of Sokol in north-west Moscow. The house was a haven amid the madness of the city: lily of the valley grew near our front gate, Virginia creeper decked the green picket fence.
Luke Harding
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