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.
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None of the chase scenes that I did had any opticals. We had to do all of that physically. The first thing you have to do is see it in your mind's eye. You have to envision it. Imagine someone knitting a sweater or a scarf. They either have a pattern in front of them, or they see a pattern in their mind's eye. Then it's one stitch at a time. That's what shooting a chase is like.
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So if Hillary Clinton is elected president, it will make history in two ways. She'll be the first woman president. And Bill Clinton, he'll be the first man and the first former president to return to the White House in the capacity of spouse.
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From the very first time I talked to Safeco employees, I said the reality was expenses were too high and the reality is two-thirds of our expenses are people, so the reality is there will be effects on people.
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Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.
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Sometimes you have to learn how to shoot first.
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What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.
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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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Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not - well, it's progress
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The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution.
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I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' I felt that it had to be a novel - it couldn't work as a story.
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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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The digital process gives me total control over how I want the film to look. The films look like they did when I was first looking through the viewfinder.
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There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?
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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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No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.
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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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Who was the first person to walk into a harbor and say, "Whatever that horrible smell is I want to eat it"
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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.
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When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.
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There are only two pieces of pussy you're gonna get in your entire life, that's your first and your last.
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Within the first year of launching my company, Spanx, I decided to go over to England and cold-call Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and Selfridges the same way I had cold-called Neiman Marcus, Saks, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's here in the United States.
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On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work!
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We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a reporter hears is the first thing that she reports. We live in a time now when we have seen major television networks take video off of YouTube and broadcast it to millions of Americans without verifying whether the video had been fabricated or not.
