Firsts Quotes
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Now Catherine would die. That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you.
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If you’re famous, I don’t — for the life of me — I don’t understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter. Why on God’s green earth would you be on Twitter? Because first of all, the worst thing you can do is make yourself more available, right?
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The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.
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First we become the best, then we'll become first.
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They say that travelling broadens your mind, but first you must have a mind.
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If you own a portfolio of stocks, you must learn to sell the worst performers first and keep the best a little longer.
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For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.
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Some can just knock it out and some have to lock themselves in a room and get to a fever pitch of self-loathing before they turn in a first draft. . . . each writer's process is screwed up in its own way.
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When you're an actor, seeing yourself for the first time, you spend all your time just watching yourself and hating yourself and picking your performance apart. You say, "I look horrible. I should quit."
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Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.
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Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.
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...first check whether the market as a whole is rising or falling. In other words, are you in a bull market or bear market? If the latter, stay out. The odds are against you.
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There's a first time for everything when I'm involved.
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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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To be fertile in hypotheses is the first perquisite of creativity and to be willing to throw them away the moment experience contradicts them is the next.
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When you first start out as an actor, you're just looking for a good part. As time goes on, if you're being held responsible for the movies themselves, you're looking for a good script all around.
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The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
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We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.
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My first commercial was for Miller High Life beer.
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I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it.
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Society needs first of all to be free from meddlersthat is, to be let alone.
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The success doesn't define you. The success isn't what gave you the edge in the first place. The failure didn't give me the edge, either.
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Knowledge is first and wisdom is the manifestation of knowledge. To understand this tone and pattern of thinking in the numerical way automatically resonated with me.
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It's important to be true to the events, but the most important thing is to get to the essence of the experience. Not to be bogged down in an academic way by a notion of the truth. First of all, the truth is an illusive and spurious concept.
