First Quotes
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It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
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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.
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My first part in a play was one of the witches in 'Macbeth.'
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The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.
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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
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'When Marnie Was There' was the first animated film I've ever done.
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Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.
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I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
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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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Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.
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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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Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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My first play was 'The Room', written when I was twenty-seven.
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.
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I'm a novelist from the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations of British Columbia, both small coastal reserves hugging the rugged shores of the west coast.
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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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The first pitch I played on, for my first club, Braine-le-Comte, was only a metre from our house! I progressed very quickly.
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After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.
