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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Performance
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't matter if it's preseason or a scrimmage. I'm trying to have a dominant performance, whether it's preseason first series or whenever I get out there.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not like I'm writing full songs or full parts and setting it aside for Slash because, generally, I like him to make the first move and hear where he's coming from and what his concepts are, and then I build from there.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I missed my youth because I was dancing, I didn't do all the crazy stuff. I didn't have boyfriends or anything - the first man I met I married!
- Nov 07, 2020
I have done a lot of reality shows. In fact,my first show was 'Shava Shava', which was a singing reality show.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1948 the first severe crash occurred in my life when Stalin put out his decree on 'formalism.' There was a bulletin board in the Moscow Conservatory. They posted the decree, which said Shostakovich's compositions and Prokofiev's were no longer to be played.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The record company didn't know what we looked like at first. They were all excited about our tapes.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came up in left-wing political writing. My first job out of college was working as Gore Vidal's fact checker.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I get recognized, every time feels like the first time.
- Canberra
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent my first five years in Canberra then moved to Sydney, where I moved around the Hills District until the age of 18.
- First Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
First, love to the family. Second, love to career. Third, love to the audience.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had to go for a mammogram - my first mammogram ever - and It was really scary and I didn't know what to expect.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm gonna be honest with you - since I started 'First Take,' I don't Google myself.
- Each One
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first job was to run a concessions cart. Later, I found a position at the Pacific Film Archive. Thus began a long series of jobs, each one slightly better than the last, that continued for a decade, until I sold my first novel, and still goes on, even now.
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- Nov 07, 2020