First Quotes
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Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.
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Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
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Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
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I've been a big fan of Joe Hill ever since his first novel, 'Heart-Shaped Box.'
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There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.
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I started off first doing a TV series called 'Boston Common.' That was my first big job, and then I went on to do another half hour comedy show, and that was with Tom Arnold, called 'The Tom Show.'
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The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
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My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.
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I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.
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My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.
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I did my first show in second grade. I was a munchkin in 'The Wizard of Oz.'
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I had a couple CDs. But I never had that first concert experience, that first record thing.
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When the first album came out and I heard 'Do It Again' on the radio, that was the greatest thing that had ever happened. After that, it was all downhill.
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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.
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I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.
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I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.
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If somebody says 'singer-songwriter' to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is something about James Taylor that has always resonated with me.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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I sat behind Thurman Thomas for my first couple of years, then my first year starting I won the Heisman. After I won the Heisman, that's when things changed as far as going to the NFL.
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The first sentence of a book is a promise.
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When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
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The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.
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If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
