First Quotes
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I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.
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The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.
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I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy.
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You have to be very brave in that first writing session.
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I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first couple of years, and then the inevitable decline begins.
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I think that debut albums are supposed to sound sort of raw. You don't want to record 'Sgt. Pepper's' as your first album, because where do you go from there?
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
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My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.
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When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.
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God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.
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The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.
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I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.
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I can't imagine childhood without 'Planet of the Apes.' I was nine or ten when the first one came out.
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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.
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I went to eight different schools my first nine years of school.
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'Floating Worlds,' which received a fair amount of attention when it was first published, deserves rediscovery.
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I love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote.
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When you start something new, you can be sure that the first few years will be full of failures and disappointments.
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The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.
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I think I first encountered Ebola from the movie 'Outbreak.' Then there was the book 'The Hot Zone.' It's the type of thing you either read and say, 'Oh wow, that's terrifying,' or you read it and say, 'Oh wow, I want to do that.' I read it and said, 'Oh wow, I want do that.'
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Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.
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At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.
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Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.
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I always choose roles that are, you know, hopefully different from the last role. I don't wanna do the same thing over and over again because that's, well, first of all that's no fun.
