First Quotes
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I found, after the experience of making 'Shaun Of The Dead' and then returning to the blank page - because 'Shaun Of The Dead' was the first screenplay I ever wrote properly - the experience of returning to the blank page and having nothing in the drawer was intensely painful.
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Among the achievements celebrated in Trump's first 100 days are the 59 cruise missiles launched at the Syrian airfield from which the gas attack on civilians allegedly came, and the dropping of the 22,000-pound MOAB bomb in Afghanistan. But what did these bombings accomplish?
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When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won.
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The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
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When my husband and I first got married, I was so shocked at my own level of joy that I was convinced it was all going to come crashing down.
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When climate change supercharges weather patterns, the disadvantaged often suffer first and most.
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The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first.
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I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.
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First you study photography, then you practice photography, then you serve photography, and finally one becomes photography.
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Every writer has written a spec. It's the first thing you write, and it basically stands as a means of, 'Here's an example of how I tell stories.' It's almost like a business card.
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When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was a new author.
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At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.
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If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
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Family is first for me.
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Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.
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My first book didn't even have a Canadian publisher. And that upset me, because I so wanted a readership up there.
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Recently, I looked back at my first manuscripts and was struck by the lack of space, of breath. That's exactly how it felt, back then... like I was suffocating.
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Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
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I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'. He played my father on 'Becker,' and he's still one of my heroes. Along with John Cleese, he's my favourite physical comedian.
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It's human when you get the sense that somebody likes you or is attracted to you - unless you're just completely repulsed by the person - I find that my first reaction is to entertain the idea.
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I'm a Muslim Egyptian-American, born in Cairo. I grew up in Kuwait until the first Gulf War, when my family relocated to the United Arab Emirates. As an adult, I studied and lived in the U.K. before moving to Boston.
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When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling I initially get when I have a creative insight. Not just the voice, but all the creativity - the production, the idea, the concept, the music involved. There is a high. There is an emotional experience that happens when everything comes together... I made music as consistently as I did, especially back in the day, because it made me feel so good... When everything is on, it's a wonderful feeling.
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I take no pride in having been the first public personality to come out publicly against Simpson. It just happened that way.
