First Quotes
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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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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.
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I think we are the first feminist or first attempt at a feminist dating app.
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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.
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'As You Like It' was the first Shakespeare production I ever did.
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The first wealth is health.
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Self-parody is the first portent of age.
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The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced.
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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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I was 16 when I auditioned for the series '8 Simple Rules.' They cast the kids first.
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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.
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I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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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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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.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.
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Work always comes first as an actor.
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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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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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What is a first line, but a door flung open by an unseen hand?
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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.
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I knew that all South Indian language films were first made in Chennai and that Tamil Nadu is one of the biggest film-producing centres in the country. I wanted to be part of films here.
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If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again.
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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.
