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I think what happens is that you do the project first, then you think about what it's about. Years later, you figure out why you've done things.
- Steven Klein
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While driving to work, I'll choose to think about a particular subject rather than just have random thought streams landing on one subject or another. For example, I might think about the structure of an opinion. Or I might think about the first sentence of an opinion, refining it.
- Raymond Kethledge
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I found a vlogger named William Sledd who talked about his life - it was very minimal edits. It was one of those things where I discovered him, and I was like, 'Oh my God, I'm obsessed with him.' I felt like I was friends with him. And he was a huge inspiration for why I made my first video.
- Tyler Oakley
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We try to entertain first, advertise second. When you find out that it's sponsored, we've already won you over. We try to make it obvious that the brand has made it better.
- Charles Lincoln Neal
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One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.
- Gioachino Rossini
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I've always been a 'write first' artist: the drawings are always in service of the writing.
- Jeffrey Brown
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As a big, you don't want to be the first one to shoot.
- Kevon Looney
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The contention is if you don't do it in the first quarter, if you don't box out and control the glass in the first quarter, you are not going to do it in the fourth quarter and overtime.
- Anne Donovan
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The exact day I became a poet was April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first typewriter.
- August Wilson
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I wrote my first report about Madam Walker when I was a senior in high school in 1970.
- A'Lelia Bundles
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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
- Florence Nightingale
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My father was in the First World War.
- Doris Lessing
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It is no accident that faith in Jesus Christ - not only believing in Him but believing Him - is the first principle of the gospel.
- Sheri L. Dew
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Rosa Parks wasn't the first one to rebel against the segregated seats. I was the first one.
- Claudette Colvin
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Feelings are at the basis of all ideas. First you have feelings, and then, through those sensations, it develops into ideas.
- Jeff Koons
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My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.
- Aaron Paul
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I'm a musical theater guy. That's where I came from. That's where I go whenever I have the chance. It's my first love.
- Scott Bakula
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One of my first purchases after I signed to RCA was a BMW. I was driving on the highway, and I heard 'Don't' come on. It was a real moment.
- Bryson Tiller
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
- Quintilian
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When I first started playing at Norwich, West Brom were in the Championship, got promoted, got relegated, got promoted, got relegated, and all the time, they were building until they eventually stayed up.
- Robert Green
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When I get up, the first thing I do is open up Gmail and check my personal email.
- James G. Stavridis
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Our first record, 'Huey Lewis And The News', was seen by no one - it sold 25 copies.
- Huey Lewis
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My own accumulation of influences is actually what made me a writer in the first place.
- Andrew Sean Greer
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I must have been 15 or 16 when I left Antrim Grammar, but I do remember having my first proper kiss when I lived there.
- Ricky Whittle
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At first, I wasn't really keen on the idea of me being on stage having to sing in front of people.
- Aurora
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When I did 'Thoroughly Modern Millie,' it was almost every 'first' I could have imagined: I dreamt someday being on Broadway, and then dreamt someday playing a lead on Broadway, and then dreamt someday of getting to originate a role, and then getting a Tony nomination. It all happened at once. I was just terrified.
- Gavin Creel
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Sometimes people start making a change with without making sure the first the first source of income sticks.
- Kandi Burruss
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I bought my first house at 19-years old.
- Kandi Burruss
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We got a Grammy for writing 'No Scrubs.' It contributed to me getting Songwriter of the Year. I was the first woman to get Songwriter of the Year from ASCAP and 'No Scrubs' was part of the reason for me getting it.
- Kandi Burruss
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The first video I ever made, announcing 'Crash the Super Bowl,' I did about fifty takes and I wanted to die. It was awful.
- Kina Grannis
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I was very bitter, frustrated, hurt, angry - I went through all types of emotions when I first was out of the WNBA.
- Sheryl Swoopes
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The first step in community organization is community disorganization.
- Saul Alinsky
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India, Pakistan, China, Singapore and South Korea are heavily investing in nuclear arms. Since 21st century is the century of Asia, Asian countries should be the first ones to drop this arms race.
- Óscar Arias
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I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.
- Raul Julia
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First off let me say, I've wanted to be an actress since I was a little girl.
- Paula Patton
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First of all, I was a wrestling fan when I was young. Even when I figured out what wrestling was, I was still a fan.
- John Carpenter
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I think my first audition was for a local musical. It was quick. I didn't get the role.
- Josephine Langford
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I got paid 20 grand for my first film. And that's the lowest I ever got paid.
- Jonathan Rhys Meyers
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When you first start doing it, being on tour is inspiring, because you've never been anywhere.
- Dean Ween
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My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.
- Eli Wallach
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First off, we've had sworn testimony from soldiers and testimony before our staff that wasn't sworn, that said these alarms rarely went off, that they went off after the war in most cases and went off a lot.
- Christopher Shays
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The first true antibiotic to be derived from a culture of an actinomyces was isolated in our department in 1940. The organism, Actinomyces antibioticus, yielded a substance which was designated as actinomycin. It was soon crystallized, and its chemical and biological properties were established.
- Selman Waksman
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I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.
- Taylor Wilson
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First there was racism. Then liberals created institutional racism and coded racism. You can only hear it with a dog whistle.
- Evan Sayet
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At first, the only thing that I learned was to save. Then I learned about mutual fund, then later on direct stock investments. I also went into small businesses and even real estate.
- Bo Sanchez
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Film is my first love. It wasn't something I intended to fall in love with, but I grew to love it.
- Preity Zinta
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We have shown, given these last three years, that we were succeeding in fighting terrorists. While during the first 30 years of the former governments they didn't.
- Alberto Fujimori
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Actually, actually, when he first put us into hypnosis, he didn't know what he was going to get.
- Betty Hill
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My very first news director said to me that it's better to be hated than to have viewers be neutral.
- Julie Chen
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In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair.
- Andy Gibb
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Every job still feels like the first time.
- Maxine Peake
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We want Angolans who have fortunes abroad to be the first to invest in the country, thus demonstrating that they are true patriots.
- Joao Lourenco
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
- Abraham Cowley
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Like many people, I became increasingly alarmed during the 2016 campaign and the first year of the Trump administration by the full-on war being waged on the very idea of truth.
- Michiko Kakutani
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The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
- Carl Clinton Van Doren
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A strong emotion, especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred.
- Algernon Blackwood
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I was lucky in getting my first book published; my first book was 'Bunnicula,' which I wrote with my late wife Debbie, for the fun of it.
- James Howe
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My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.
- Martin Sheen
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Our first show, 'A Little Nightmare Music,' encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music.
- Aleksey Igudesman
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The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.
- Daniel Woodrell
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I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.
- Kate Klise
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This is just a personal thought, but there's a lot of things that people can't do because of COVID-19. I think that it would be nice to write or express the first thing we want to do after COVID-19 ends.
- Kim Tae-hyung
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While Slovakia did not make the first round of NATO membership, as various requirements and reforms are instituted, these actions will enhance the opportunities to join NATO.
- John Mica
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The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.
- Harold Warner
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In China, they treated me really well, they like me a lot. The first few times they laughed when I took my shirt off, but when they saw me throw my punches and saw my opponent on the floor, they came over to my side and clapped.
- Andy Ruiz Jr.
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When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
- Fionnula Flanagan
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I put Christ first and everything else fell into place.
- Rich Froning Jr.
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The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
- Hans Berger
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One of the first things I ever did was 'Critical Condition.' That was before 'Full House.' It was a Richard Pryor movie. I didn't have a giant part, but I was in it throughout. I loved the heck out of it.
- Bob Saget
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I'm playing in the Premier League and my first two games could be against Manchester City and Liverpool. I don't think it gets much better than that.
- Jarrod Bowen
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'As I Lay Dying,' I reread that often. That's the first work of Faulkner's that I read that so amazed me and that I responded to emotionally and viscerally. I admired it so much, and I think that's why I keep rereading it.
- Jesmyn Ward
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When I was writing the first few books, what I would do is write a bunch of sentences and then go back and expand and explode those sentences, pack as much into them as I could, so they'd kind of be like popcorn kernels popping... all this stuff in there to make the writing dense, and beautiful for its density.
- William T. Vollmann
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The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
- Arthur Bloch
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I played Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz.' That was my first role on stage.
- Gugu Mbatha-Raw
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For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.
- Alphonso Jackson
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First and foremost, we have to ensure that we have to get our own kids ready for work so that employers want to take them on.
- Esther McVey
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I was so shy when I was younger. When I first went to Liverpool I didn't say a word for a year.
- Ian Rush
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Hollywood's great, but wrestling is my first love.
- Triple H
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When I first starting conceiving series like 'Courtney,' 'Polly,' 'How Loathsome,' etc., I was shooting for closed story-arcs but open-ended concepts. Then I started realizing I was committing myself to potentially endless series.
- Ted Naifeh
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I've always been the first to admit that Jimi was a very big influence on my early stuff.
- Robin Trower
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
- A. E. van Vogt
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Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.
- A. E. van Vogt
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I was one of the first people to join Facebook in February of 2004, and launched one of the inaugural applications on the platform in May 2007.
- Joe Green
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My first major role was in a play called 'Through the Leaves.'
- Ken Stott
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The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience.
- Bernadette Peters
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The first interview I went on I got at age 5. It was a commercial for First Federal Bank.
- Erin Moran
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It was almost two years after I left Capital that I put out the first one on Chrysalis and that was really instructive because it was no better in particular than any other record I'd done.
- Leo Kottke
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The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.
- Leo Kottke
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I think, actually, I was the first person to ever sign a simultaneous video and recording deal with a record company.
- Toni Basil
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In Castling, the King must be moved first, or before the Rook is quitted. If the Rook be quitted before the King is touched, the opposing player may demand that the move of the Rook shall stand without the Castling being completed.
- Howard Staunton
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The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
- Lactantius
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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.
- Marie-Chantal Claire
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I am definitely not as polite as Beatrice, I have to say. I tell it as it is. I am shyer at first.
- Princess Eugenie of York
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I first paid attention to fashion when I was around 15, but I don't really care much about it these days.
- Suga
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I actually started making beats first and that was before 2010. I think I was like 14. They were really bad. I used to sample like Arabic music for some reason.
- Lil Tracy
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I guess the first screenplay of mine that was done was 'Falling in Love' with Robert DeNiro and Meryl Streep.
- Michael Cristofer
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From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour.
- Julia Margaret Cameron
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Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.
- Charles Sanders Peirce
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When I was an amateur, I would go to knock guys out in the first minute. When you get experience, you know it doesn't work like that.
- Gegard Mousasi
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Jose Aldo became champion when he was 22. I didn't get into the gym for the first time until I was 22.
- Glover Teixeira
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