- Blues
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- Nov 07, 2020
First Quotes
On beginnings, and what a 'first' really changes.
The quotes gathered here treat 'first' loosely: a rookie athlete crediting the teammates who set the tone early, a filmmaker's take on what should scare an audience right away, and a physicist weighing what can and can't be known first. If early relationships resonate, see our First Love.
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- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mandela once phoned me out of the blue while he was still president, and at first he played with me a bit.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first encountered the 'Sigma Force' novels - long before I became friends with Jim Rollins - a bookseller told me that these stories were about 'geeks with guns.' While not entirely accurate, that's pretty close to the mark, and that really speaks to me.
- Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
David Benioff can hardly be classified as an underdog. The 2002 film adaptation of his first novel, 'The 25th Hour,' was directed by Spike Lee and starred Edward Norton.
- Flavors
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first encountered fish jerky during a marlin tournament in Kona, Hawaii. It was steeped in the island flavors of ginger, soy, and pineapple.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
Technically, fish can last up to half a year in a freezer, but their quality starts to slide after the first month.
- Fast
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first draft often is really fast, and I'd be terribly ashamed if anybody ever saw it.
- Approximately
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Forty-five years since I made my first paycheck, and I'm telling you that 'Breaking Bad' is as good as it gets.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because the series is situated in the next century, and for the most part under water, there are many innovative technical gadgets. It's a kind of StarTrek. When I first came there, I was really impressed myself.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I was the leader of the House of Representatives, the first thing I would do is I would put in a very clean bill on reapportionment. And I would put a very clean bill in that says that corporations are not people.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Polar' is based on the first and a little bit on the second book and all the characters from those novels are in there. The story is based on the graphic novel, but when it came to the execution of the film I felt I couldn’t really make a movie without any dialogue.
- Graduate Student
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The routers get involved in this and they know that on the path between this router and that router a certain percentage of the bandwidth is reserved to these things and a certain percentage of it is allowed on a first come first served basis.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020