First Quotes
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Rian Malan was one of the first younger writers to perceive and write about a darkness in the South African psyche that goes deeper than mere politics. To some extent, that's my territory, too.
Damon Galgut
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The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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My Levis split and my bollocks fell out. I had no idea at first.
Phil Collen Def Leppard
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We're very excited . . . I'm flying up in a few days to Rochester. We're doing a few production rehearsals up there for a few days and then we kick off the tour on the first. So it's an exciting time for the Priest.
Richie Faulkner Judas Priest
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I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level.
Rafael Palmeiro
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'As You Like It' was the first Shakespeare production I ever did.
Zoe Wanamaker
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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.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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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.
Vincent Bugliosi
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The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first.
Lao Tzu
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The first wealth is health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We'll all be the first to hold up our hands and take it on the chin can't all be the first Ash!
Ashley Giles
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The first time I set out to find George F. Kennan, in 1982, I had just turned 21, begun my final semester at Princeton University and noticed with astonishment that the senior thesis deadline had crept to within four months.
Barton Gellman
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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.
Orhan Pamuk
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The cover was pebbled black leather, the pages onionskin, and he opened it carefully. It was his first Bible, the one his mother had given him, the one that had taken its time showing him what he was supposed to do with his life, his size, that voice of his. It was the one used for his ordination, and when he had buried his mother on a autumn hillside in Tennesee five years ago. King James. He didn't care about the scholars or the accuracy or the bringing of his church into whatever century they claimed it was these days; he cared about the poetry, and about the comfort it brought to those who needed to hear it.
Charles L. Grant
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Work always comes first as an actor.
Kat Graham
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What is a first line, but a door flung open by an unseen hand?
Conn Iggulden
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Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.
Larry Wall
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If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again.
James Brown
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When I first got started, I used to say I just want to stay in the studio, I want to make good music, I want to sing my heart out, and I didn't think I'd have people following me to a grocery store or following me home or stuff like that.
Dinah Jane Fifth Harmony
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You have an idea in your mind of how the first show will be. Since I was 15 years old in front of the mirror saying, "If I was in Priest, this is what I would do." But in truth, I don't remember any of it.
Richie Faulkner Judas Priest
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When I first hit the scene, it was just a lot of go, go, go, go, go. I have a lot of natural energy anyway, but it was over the top.
Dane Cook
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I think we are the first feminist or first attempt at a feminist dating app.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
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When we made 'Shaun of the Dead,' it was our first feature, and we were just lucky to make a film, full stop.
Edgar Wright
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I think the 360 deals are what stands out to me, first and foremost. I never would have dreamed that record labels would be taking a piece of touring, merchandise, and everything else. The world has changed so dramatically from when we first started.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts