Firsts Quotes
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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.
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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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Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.
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Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.
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Oh, here's a clever one. Do you remember this question from the first test?It reads, 'What wrong with this statement?' And do you know what Constance wrote in reply? She wrote, 'What's wrong with you?
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Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
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Whether it's marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.
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I shopped for body shapers for the first time in my life and I was horrified. They were thick - it was like wearing workout clothes and they all had a leg band on one side that showed through the pants.
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The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness.
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I wanted everything to stay the same, but you wanted things to be better, it's just...going to be a whole lot worse for awhile first. And I think I knew that, and I was scared of it." - Marcus
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My first commercial was for Miller High Life beer.
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I never used to get homesick when I first moved to L.A.
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The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
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I got my first exposure to Islam when I was 13.
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I don't like that word 'discovery.' ... Sinatra was the first one to call Ray Charles a genius, he spoke of 'the genius of Ray Charles.' And after that everybody called him a genius. They didn't call him a genius before that though. He was a genius but they didn't call him that. ... If a white man hadn't told them, they wouldn't've seen it. ... Like, you know, they say Columbus discovered America, he didn't discover America.
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Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.
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I think the first time I realised Downton Abbey was a hit was when I was sitting in a tea shop in New York and the couple next to me were talking about Downton Abbey, and then they recognised me.
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Now 'Boondock II,' people are gonna see it because they liked the first one. There won't be very many people who go see it who aren't familiar with the first one.
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Lay on, McDuff, and be damned he who first cries, 'Hold, enough!
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In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you have to get through it alone.
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I made my first film on 16mm. Then I began using 35mm.Then I began working in Hollywood. And I began to really understand how films were made by professionals. I have to say I wasn't very impressed.
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We say knowledge is the basic foundation of the universe. Everything is first based on something being known.
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Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.
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Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
