First Quotes
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You have to be very brave in that first writing session.
Barry Mann -
When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.
Zaha Hadid
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When I wrote my first book, 'Koolaids,' I felt rejected and not wanted.
Rabih Alameddine -
I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.
Jack Vance -
There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet playing. Another one is the starting what was first called jazz rock in 1967 when I started my first band, later became jazz fusion by the 1970s.
Gary Burton -
I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.
Dan Wakefield -
At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.
Jacob Batalon
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The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
Francesca Annis -
I wrote my first story when I was six or seven.
Kate Christensen -
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
T. E. Lawrence -
When you broaden the little box that you've been living in for so long, it can be very uncomfortable at first.
Banks -
It's hard to connect to these superheroes that are completely out of this world. But Spider-Man is first and foremost Peter Parker, who we can all relate to.
Laura Harrier -
We aren't going to let our first investment be the best.
Dan Levitan
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One of the first acts during the second coming of Steve Jobs as CEO in 1997 was a major board overhaul.
Tahl Raz -
First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
Barry Levinson -
I never ever slept again after my first pregnancy.
Uma Thurman -
I think my first hit was probably '24 is a Rubberband Man,' which was my second album. My first project, it was very well received in the Southeast region, all throughout the South and parts of the Midwest. It was very well received, but I didn't get national exposure on my second album.
T.I. -
I'm just the second Bodhi. I think there will be more. I have the feeling this is only the first re-imagination of 'Point Break'.
Edgar Ramirez -
Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.
Parker Posey -
I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.
Walter Wager -
I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.
Barney Frank -
'Floating Worlds,' which received a fair amount of attention when it was first published, deserves rediscovery.
Pamela Sargent