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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first am fight I had, I was 10 yrs. old. I didn't count, but as far as I remember, it was approximately 350 fights. It was a lot of fights.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the first from Ethiopia getting 1500-meter world record; that is amazing.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a great season and truly enjoyed competing around the world - from Monaco, where I managed to establish a world record, to Beijing, where I finally captured my first world outdoor title.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later, I got my first job.
- First One
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- Nov 07, 2020
After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley.
- Luck
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first YA novel, not many people have read. It's a fickle business. There's a degree of timing and luck involved.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1996, when my first novel, 'Masquerade,' was published, I knew international thrillers - or spy novels, if you prefer - had been the domain of male authors for decades.
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- Nov 07, 2020