First Quotes
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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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I'm one of the first invention capitalists.
Nathan Myhrvold
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To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first - for example, psychotherapy.
Irving Kirsch
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I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought.
Padgett Powell
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The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.
Viggo Mortensen
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
Bashar al-Assad
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I wanted to be the first female, young teenager producer, and it didn't happen. And when it finally did happen, I was shelved because I was signed to Warner Bros.
Kat Graham
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I'm an entrepreneur first and a wine critic second.
Gary Vaynerchuk
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The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.
M. Night Shyamalan
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I'm a writer first and a singer second.
Lana Del Rey
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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.
Barry Sonnenfeld
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My first job as premier will be to go back to basics.
Lara Giddings
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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.
Pankaj Mishra
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Oppressed people are frequently very oppressive when first liberated. They know but two positions: somebody's foot on their neck or their foot on somebody's neck.
Florynce Kennedy
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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
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When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.
Tammy Baldwin
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My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska.
Becca Fitzpatrick
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As is always the way with pancakes, the first hotcake to come out of the pan will probably be a bit misshapen. Just scoff it, and carry on with the rest.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.
Parker Posey
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I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great.
Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
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When you first get fame, you're so insecure that you just become a ding dong.
Tate Donovan
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I think the first role I ever played was Mr. Bumble in a production of 'Oliver.'
Caitriona Balfe
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I always give importance to scripts first, and remuneration is something that comes later.
Hansika Motwani