Firsts Quotes
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My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.
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The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'
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First you harmonize, then you customize.
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There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can’t remember what the second one is.
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I put God first and do not allow other things to cloud my vision.
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With marriage, you've just got to stick it out. You can't jump off the boat at the first bump in the waves.
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Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.
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Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.
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There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that , as a rule, a poet should read them.
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My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
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I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn't want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought, "Maybe I'll get better and eventually please the person who wrote about my singing." But then I thought, "I probably will never please this person. I should just do what pleases me."
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I had my first museum showing of my slide show in Rotterdam, in 1983. I love Rotterdam. I love harbour cities in general.
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Graphite also absorbs the shock of a hit. The first (graphite) clubs that came out were too flexible, but now you can get them to be just as firm as you want and need.
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Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are too often made idols, and all must bow down to them or be punished.
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Reading something for the first time and getting this feeling like the material provokes you on some level, and doing the movie is really just sort of defining and figuring out why exactly you felt certain things when you read it.
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My children come first and the career comes in around that.
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Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.
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Unfortunately, every time there's a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.
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I haven't really heard much that's impressed me the way it was when I first heard Ray Charles or somebody like that. That was really an impression.
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In heaven, after antipasti, the first course will be pasta.
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You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.
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It's a roll of the dice when you're a first time director so I prefer to work with people that know more than I do, but that happens less and less as you get older.
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My first love was singing and I had no time for boys.
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[I would like to be] one of [the first pop singers to perform in a free Cuba]. I know the list is huge. And it would be hard to pull off -- I'd have a lump as big as a tostone [fried green plantain] in my throat. But oh my God, what a dream -- it would be the height of my personal and professional career.
