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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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I've had over a dozen and a half novels published since late 1994 when my first novel, 'Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls' came out.
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I have to admit that I was a little nervous when I showed up for my first official 'Wreck-It Ralph' recording session.
- Life
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'Your Life Calling' is the first thing in my long career I've ever actually invented. It is my entrepreneurial debut.
- Pleasure
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My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.
- Getting
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One reviewer dubbed my first book, 'Getting Rid of Matthew,' 'chick noir,' and another called it 'anti chick lit,' both of which I loved.
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I was into Alan Moore and Frank Miller. I was a teenager when all those books where coming out for the first time - 'Watchmen,' 'V for Vendetta.' It was a great time to get into comics.
- Exercise
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I treated the first few books as a very long journalistic exercise. I thought of every chapter as an article that needed to be finished.
- Me
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Howard Hughes was obsessed with me. But at first it seemed as if he were offering me a superb career opportunity.
- Contractors
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No military contractors should have a 'shoot first' culture that puts civilians or our brave military service members in danger.
- Government
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The government shouldn't step in at the first stage and create land banks. Industry should buy the land as much as they can, and if they get stuck, then the government should step in.
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My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.
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