First Quotes
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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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I've been a big fan of Joe Hill ever since his first novel, 'Heart-Shaped Box.'
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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My first dunk was actually in sixth grade.
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It was always in the back of my mind while we were working on the first year of 'Rookie' that we'd do a print version at some point.
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The first and pivotal negotiations over global access to AIDS drugs began in Geneva in 1991. They lasted two years, but confidential minutes suggest they were doomed the first day.
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For me, it's first about the characters. I look for a character who is intriguing and challenging and different from what I've done before.
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Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.
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The first sentence of a book is a promise.
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It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.
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I started, actually, as an analyst on African affairs, mainly on Al Jazeera. I remember the first few series were about Saudi students, and the negotiations between the government and the Sudanese rebels in the south. And then, slowly, I was speaking about Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and a few other places.
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The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.
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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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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.
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There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.
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I first read Heinlein when I was very young.
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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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Everything I do now is a first.
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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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I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.
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At Oracle, silver medal is first loser.
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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.
