First Quotes
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'I Can Do That' has been the most challenging show of my life, and the result has been overwhelming. It is good to know I will be in the history as the first winner of the season of the show.
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When I played my first concert with an orchestra, I was eight years old in Berlin.
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Self-parody is the first portent of age.
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This is our first time back in Europe since the 'incident.
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My first audition was the worst I have ever done, ever.
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The Strokes will never get anywhere after that first record.
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My first computers were a Timex Sinclair and an Apple II.
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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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My Levis split and my bollocks fell out. I had no idea at first.
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What is a first line, but a door flung open by an unseen hand?
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If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again.
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Work always comes first as an actor.
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The first wealth is health.
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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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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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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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I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level.
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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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Music should always be first.
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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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'As You Like It' was the first Shakespeare production I ever did.
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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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...it is not the obscure passages in Scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. With these you are to comply at once. If you understood only one passage in all of Scripture, well, then you must do that first of all. It will be this passage God asks you about. Do not first sit down and ponder the obscure passages. God's Word is given in order that you shall act according to it, not that you gain expertise in interpreting it.
