Firsts Quotes
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We have a couple of rules in our relationship. The first rule is that I make her feel like she's getting everything. The second rule is that I actually do let her have her way in everything. And, so far, it's working.
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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.
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The first draft of anything is sh*t.
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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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Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families.
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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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When we started, we were from the South and we looked the part. Plus there was sex and violence on our first album. People immediately attached themselves to it, especially outside of America, because they see the South as a mythical place.
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The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.
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Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
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There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?
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You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?
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That's the first band I ever played in that was working and I was getting paid for it. I was 12. The other guys were a lot older than me.
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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.
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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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The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
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Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.
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Singing and entertainment are now my first priority.
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I can't remember what my first script was.
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And my first item on each day's list is this: Wake up. If I can check that off, I've already done something and can get on with the business of living and trying to honor the memory of those I love who are no longer here.
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Loss; is the returning of what never actually belonged to us in the first place.
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When I see the first dailies on any movie, I usually feel that I had no idea how this combination of ingredients was going to mix together, what it was going to produce.
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You have to become the 'first of yourself' instead of trying to become the second of anyone.
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My first commercial was for Miller High Life beer.
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The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it when I'm reading scripts.
