First Quotes
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I was the first African-American woman to play Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' It was at the Virginia State Theatre, and we turned Richmond upside down.
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I'm one of the first invention capitalists.
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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 think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.
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The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.
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My first car was a 1999 red Mazda Protege.
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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.
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I fantasised about becoming an author and wrote my first book at 18 - an introspective novel set in the 1920s.
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When you first get fame, you're so insecure that you just become a ding dong.
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I think the first role I ever played was Mr. Bumble in a production of 'Oliver.'
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When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.
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I attended Amherst College from 1951 to 1955. The first two years were a revelation. There were innumerable exchanges with brilliant classmates, among them the playwright Ralph Allen, the classics scholar Robert Fagles, and the composer Michael Sahl.
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I'm a writer first and a singer second.
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When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.
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My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.
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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.
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My rooting interest these days is first and foremost competitive hockey, and secondly in officials not making a mistake.
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My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81.
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I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.
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The first Chanel jacket that I saw - that I knew was Chanel - was on TV. It was on Mrs. Kennedy - the pink one.
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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.
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But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.
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The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.
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First I opened a check account. I looked at the - I looked that there was nothing of yield. So I bought some bonds. It was a bond. When I bought this bond, it was duplicated in 10 years. I think it was 10 percent.
