First Quotes
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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
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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.
Raghav Bahl
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I played a scene at the end of my first year, and that's how I was discovered.
Olivier Martinez
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Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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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.'
Pardis Sabeti
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First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
Pat Roberts
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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.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
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The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
Halle Berry
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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?
Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
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Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regular writer for the site.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.
Barney Frank
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In the first three years of Mint, from when it was founded to when it was sold, I can honestly say that in a sustainable way, I couldn't have worked any harder on it.
Aaron Patzer
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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw 'Hair.'
Bebe Neuwirth
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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
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Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.'
P. J. O'Rourke
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Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.
A. E. van Vogt
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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.
Zooey Deschanel
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Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.
Pat Nixon
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I've always been a geek, so I've always used the Internet, perhaps at first for autopromotion, as many authors do.
Tatiana de Rosnay
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You don't let being the first to do it stop you or get in the way.
Halima Aden
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I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
Taylor Swift
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I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project.
Tatyana Ali
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The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.
Viggo Mortensen
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Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
Bear Grylls