Firsts Quotes
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Being, not doing, is my first joy.
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The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.
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The first game was against Wake Forrest - I'll never forget that game.
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You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name.
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The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.
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Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000 years ago there was no other form of religion on this planet. That was how people attained some kind of access to the sacred.
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The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty.
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There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.
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The first day of the rest of my life, and I’m not sure I want to be here. I know I should be thanking somebody for this, but I really don’t feel like it. Instead, I wish they hadn’t bothered.
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Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly, and use it to get myself wealthy.
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I would never suggest to anyone that they drop school for chess. First of all even if you can make it in chess, your social skills need to be developed there.
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One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer.
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Now if the will of God is so important, it has to be proved. And now through Sahaja Yoga, after the breaking of the Sahasrara, you have now for the first time felt the will of God, which is such an important thing.
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How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
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The first couple of years in the minors were tough for me. My numbers were there, but being away from home so young was tough.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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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.
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When I got Trophy Wife, the first fear is, This could go away; the second is, Its here and I love it; I hope it gets a second season.
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The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!
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There are many prejudices about art, and first among them is that it is a skill and that there are definite rules.
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It's the first thing I tell my students: If you could understand, really understand, that no one needs to read your work, then your writing would improve vastly by the time we meet in this classroom again.
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First love is unrequited ultimately because it’s so huge.It’s such an act of giving and it requires so much back that it can never be given back. It’s like an atom bomb. It’s like… It’s all the energy of who you are and who you want to be and what you love and what you hope to be explodes. It is impossible for a single... human being to offer that back to you in a mutual way.
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I won the first contest I ever entered, when I was 6.
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My daughter Karen was born in 1958, the year my first Paddington book came out, so she grew up with him.
