- Own
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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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- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.
- Neighbors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.
- Gentle
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first novel, 'Housekeeping,' was accepted by the first agent who read it, and bought by the first editor who read it. In general, my experience with publication has been gentle and gratifying.
- Destiny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was spending most of my summers in Greece when I was a little girl, and at boarding school my first room-mate was Greek, so I guess I kind of had that Greek destiny.
- Dust
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the first American steps on the red dust of Mars, it's going to be because of computer scientists.
- Laboratory
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first experiments on the biological properties of radium were successfully made in France, with samples from our laboratory, while my husband was living.
- Painful
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me.
- Maria
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not the next anyone, I'm the first Maria Sharapova.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work.
- Expressed
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- Nov 07, 2020