Firsts Quotes
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It was the first time I worked with Matthew McConaughey in the True Detective.They're fun guys with Woody Harrelson. They don't take life at all too seriously, but yet they take their work very seriously. And both of them are just so committed to character and the story.
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I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.
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You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle.
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I always loved mascara and eyelash curlers to make your eyes look very open and wide and when I'm having a conversation with somebody that's always the first thing I'm attracted to, so I've been into mascara since I was little.
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I'm certainly not a lyricist first. I prefer doing it intuitively and not really thinking about it so much.
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The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.
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As I grew up, I played in sandals. I played in flip-flops all the time back in the day. That's why I didn't really care about spraining my ankles. When I first started in the NBA, I loved low-cuts. I can play (in them), because I used to grow up playing in flip-flops all the time.
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You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome. You can't merely wing it and expect to keep up with them. Setting aside all the safety valves and pleasant distractions is the first way to send yourself the message that you're playing for keeps
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True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey.
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That to me is the way any good romantic would look at his life: Live it first, then write it down before you go.
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It wasn't love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.
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I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I was tempted to say, "On teabags, I used to save them.
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The difference between the first and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition -- it is a matter of a hair, a shade, an inward quiver of some kind -- yet what miles away in the point of preciousness!
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Do you remember when we were kids and played that game 'Telephone'? It was like that. The first time I heard about it, someone said he'd been shot 17 times.
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How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning.
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I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly.
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I've got a mission to help people improve and massively change their lives and create breakthroughs, so I'm always looking for them and I'm the first guinea pig.
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The first thing I do when I get there like all of the players on tour is apply sunscreen. One of the few hazards of the job is the wear-and-tear our skin takes from the sun.
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Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is having someone else do a first class job under your direction.
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I'm the hunter," Elena reminded him. "I should go first." "Of course you may go first. When I am dead.
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The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture.
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The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people.
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A second-class is a first-class mistake.
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One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]
