First Quotes
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This is our first time back in Europe since the 'incident.
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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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Self-parody is the first portent of age.
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You have to really have the will to hang onto the first note as it is being played, and then really stay with it and take the flight, as it were, you know, for the duration of the piece.
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What is a first line, but a door flung open by an unseen hand?
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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.
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The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced.
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In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case.
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When we were first started we were doing a lot of Motown stuff, but actually playing it more in a rock way. Everybody in the band sang and we did a lot of harmonies.
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I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I've had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver.
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The first wealth is health.
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I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level.
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My first computers were a Timex Sinclair and an Apple II.
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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.
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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!
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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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If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again.
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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.
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My Levis split and my bollocks fell out. I had no idea at first.
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Work always comes first as an actor.
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'As You Like It' was the first Shakespeare production I ever did.
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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.
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Music should always be first.
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My first audition was the worst I have ever done, ever.
