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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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- Civilization
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- Nov 07, 2020
From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.
- Complete
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- Nov 07, 2020
Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't ever have believed I would marry so young, but it was love at first sight, so there was no point in holding back for the sake of it.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.
- Environment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ah, the first NAFTA was really, had a lot of disastrous elements for Canada's environment.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I could say anything to aspiring writers, it's to keep your own counsel, first and foremost.
- First Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is it one yearns for? It is to be able to do a thing for the first time again. And that is impossible.
- Focused
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my early work, our molecular views of telomeres were first focused on the DNA.
- Nov 07, 2020