First Quotes
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I wrote my first play when I was eight.
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When I first went out on the road with Larry Williams, there was also, like, The Coasters, The Drifters, and The Flamingos.
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I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.
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My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim.
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The first film role I deliberately chose to play after I came out was a raging heterosexual, John Profumo.
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My first experience on a feature film was with Shane Meadows on 'This Is England.'
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Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
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I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to help us out from the sidelines.
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I played a scene at the end of my first year, and that's how I was discovered.
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My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.
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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.
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I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.
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When I first starting conceiving series like 'Courtney,' 'Polly,' 'How Loathsome,' etc., I was shooting for closed story-arcs but open-ended concepts. Then I started realizing I was committing myself to potentially endless series.
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Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.
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Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.
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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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Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
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I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.
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For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
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To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first - for example, psychotherapy.
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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.
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My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.
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Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
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By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.
