Firsts Quotes
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If you ain't first, you're last!
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Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me.
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There's no such thing as good ideas and bad ideas. There are only your own ideas and other people's. If you want someone to like your idea, tell him he said it first last week and you just remembered it.
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When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.
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As a director, you just have to kind of like just get through the first project before starting on the next one.
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I think that's all you can hope for as an actor when you read a script; that after the first thirty pages it has some meaning to it.
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You must always steal, but only from the best people. Steal any trick that looks worthwhile. If you see Vivien Leigh or Robert DeNiro or Meryl Streep do something stunningly effective, and you can analyze how he or she did it, then pinch it. Because you can be sure that they stole it in the first place.
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In the first place, any group of folks willing to make asses of themselves in pursuit of a good time should be commended and encouraged: The spirit of human frolic needs all the help it can get.
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My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old and I thought it was big time.
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My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.
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A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.
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Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, and you'll probably make it through the next one.
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When we first hear a word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.
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In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.
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The first must that any director has is to not force his public.
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I didn't think so much of him at first. But now I get it: he's everything that I'm not.
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Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.
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If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
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The first hundred years are the hardest.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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I don't know. I really don't. While I was in the living room, I kept asking myself what I really wanted in life." She squeezed his hand. "And do you know what the answer was? The answer was that I wanted two things. First, I want you. I want us. I love you and I always have.
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Hitler was the first superstar.
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I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself.
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That's your first mistake. Do not trust me.
