Firsts Quotes
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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.
Carson Daly
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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
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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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The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.
William James
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The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.
Ernest Hemingway
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Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.
Seneca the Younger
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If we are to maximize the potential of young girls everywhere, we have to think, in this instance, literally outside the box. And the first step of doing that is to see the box for what it really is: A perfect, pretty PROBLEM.
David Trumble
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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.
William Friedkin
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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"
Jim Gaffigan
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I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.
Will Self
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You break the story first, and then you go into the specifics.
Seth MacFarlane
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What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I still remember the first gig where I got people going, it was Rascals in New Jersey, and the place was packed. I was scared. People were expecting me to be funny. I gotta be honest, every time I walk into a club, it's that same fear.
Bill Burr
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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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The first person you have to resurrect is yourself
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
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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.
Michelle Monaghan
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You have to become the 'first of yourself' instead of trying to become the second of anyone.
BoA
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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.
William Feather
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The mindless rejoicing at home is really appalling; it makes me fear that the first blow against Tokyo will make them wilt at once...I only wish that the Americans had also had, say, three carriers at Hawaii.
Isoroku Yamamoto
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Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
William Penn
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It took me a long time to figure out that real big-time success comes from taking lots of small, ordinary steps in the right direction. And you can't ever take the next step until you take the first.
Deacon Jones
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Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families.
Cynthia Heimel
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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!
William James
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For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.
Vladimir Lenin