First Quotes
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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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Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.
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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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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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'As You Like It' was the first Shakespeare production I ever did.
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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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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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My first real crush was... Louis Tomlinson.
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My Levis split and my bollocks fell out. I had no idea at first.
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I think my first album was a gift for my birthday and a Faith Hill album; I loved her.
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In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case.
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The first rappers I ever got into were Wu-Tang, Mobb Deep, and Nas. Those are the guys. Those are the dudes that flipped my wig.
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The Strokes will never get anywhere after that first record.
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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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If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again.
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Music should always be first.
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Self-parody is the first portent of age.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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The first wealth is health.
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Work always comes first as an actor.
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It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.
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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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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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When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.
