Firsts Quotes
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I always had plenty of ideas. I didn’t exactly have them. They grew—little by little, a half an idea at a time. First, part of a phrase and then a person to go with it. After a person, then a little corner of a place for the person to be in.
Carol Emshwiller
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I have always loved horror very much. I used to write stories for DC's House of Mystery. It was one of my first jobs writing for comics, and I loved it.
Sergio Aragones
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Now, this one might be a little stringy, but then again, it's fiddle player." That isn't fiddle player, it's piccolo player." How can you tell?" It's PIPING hot!" Then blow on it first!
Stephen Sondheim
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I'm the type of person who feels I have to prove myself first.
Renee O'Connor
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I get it. Allah put me through it first so I could rise back up and help those around me. He trains you first. Then He sends the people to you and you to the people.
Yasmin Mogahed
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One of the first bands to break out of Seattle was Heart.
Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
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My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer.
Will McDonough
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He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away.
Zadie Smith
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I use a lot of humor, and I follow the saying that if you want to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh first, otherwise, they will shoot you. So I can tell you a joke and maybe you will laugh at the beginning. But it's not about telling jokes.
Sayed Kashua
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The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution.
G. Edward Griffin
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I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world.
Benoit Mandelbrot
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With one out in the first, Dave Roberts looks a lot better than the last time he pitched against the Padres!
Jerry Coleman
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Eat that frog! If you have to eat 3 frogs, eat the biggest and uggliest one first.
Brian Tracy
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Whoever came up first with that saying a picture is worth a thousand words didn't understand the first thing about either one.
Wim Wenders
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If you ask any driver about their first trip to New York, it's always crazy.
Daughn Gibson
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Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.
William Wilberforce
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I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of Performance called The Entertainer with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice.
Helen McCrory
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The vocals are the very last thing I do. So, it's kinda the opposite: with country. it's singing and guitar first, but with rock, I worry about the riff and music, vocals last.
Hank Williams III
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O, let me kiss that hand! KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.
William Shakespeare
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I'm about to read Scott Turow's 'Innocent.' I've been hungry for this book since he first told me it was in the works. I'm a serious Turow fan.
Ridley Pearson
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Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
A. A. Allen
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You ask any moviemaker what their favorite movie experience was, and they'll say it was one of the first ones, where everyone had to pitch in and do everything together, and you had to struggle.
Robert Rodriguez Chingon