First Quotes
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I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment.
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My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.
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I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a Balenciaga suit from 1962.
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It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
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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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The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.
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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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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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The first sentence of a book is a promise.
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'When Marnie Was There' was the first animated film I've ever done.
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Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.
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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 started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.
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'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films.
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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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My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.
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I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.
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The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
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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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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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When I wrote my first book, 'Koolaids,' I felt rejected and not wanted.
