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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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- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
At University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, I was one of the first Blacks there. I didn't go to a Black school until my junior year of college, when I went to Fisk University.
- Best-Seller
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I wrote the first Betsy book, 'Undead and Unwed,' I had no idea, none, that it would be a career-defining, genre-defining book, the first of over a dozen in the series, the first of over 70 published books, the first on my road to the best-seller list, the first on my road to being published in 15 countries.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a lifeguard for three years, when I was around 16-years-old. So for my first job, that was awesome, working on the beach.
- Nov 07, 2020
Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Neither of my parents had English as a first language.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample.
- Nov 07, 2020
My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the first half of the 20th century, fashion was simply not a very English thing to do.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
On my first trip to New York in the 1980s, the first place I wanted to visit was the Plaza Hotel, home to Kay Thompson's Eloise.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.
- Nov 07, 2020
In the dressing room, I always put on my right shoe first. Same thing for my right wristband.
- Playful
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- Nov 07, 2020