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First Quotes
"The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great."
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"I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script."
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"The routers get involved in this and they know that on the path between this router and that router a certain percentage of the bandwidth is reserved to these things and a certain percentage of it is allowed on a first come first served basis."
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"I did the pilot, and when they came through and said they were going to put it on the air, I had already some dates in the book with my band and so on. So Barry did the first one, he may have done a few more than the first one in the series, and I took it up from then."
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"At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point."
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"The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form."
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"If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling."
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"First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck."
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"When you're a girl, passion can dominate the equation, but as you grow up relationships evolve. Mad passion can grab you at first, but it can't last forever."
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"I have always loved horror very much. I used to write stories for DC's House of Mystery. It was one of my first jobs writing for comics, and I loved it."
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"But Basquiat is the first thing I've done that I'm really proud of."
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"I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that record for two years straight. Even when I was asleep I had it on. So, yeah, whenever I hear a Rush tune, the first thing I think of is Toronto."
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"With our first two records we backed ourselves into a hole musically."
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"All nuclear weapon states should now recognize that this is so, and declare - in Treaty form - that they will never be the first to use nuclear weapons. This would open the way to the gradual, mutual reduction of nuclear arsenals, down to zero."
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"In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note."
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"The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received."
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"Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director."
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"I can remember the first face-lift show that came on. I rang up everyone - are you watching? I'm watching."
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"You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others."
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"My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI."
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"I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad."
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"The first few years I was in Vermont quite a bit, but I don't think I ever spent years and years there."
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"I'm sad about this, but we shouldn't have been married in the first place."
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"Similarly, the problem of the rights of the state in the disposition of inheritances left by individuals presents social aspects of the first importance."
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"Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions."
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""It worked." (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation)."
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"First job I went out on in new York I got, and when I came back, the first job I went out on, I got."
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"When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up."
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"I think my first bikini, I was four and it was polka dotted and I had a big belly and I looked dashing."
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"When I first went on tour with PJ in '98, I was still in shock having gone through the Soundgarden break up."
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"The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!"
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"Michael Sunday and I are the original members of the band. We first did it just for charities and benefit concerts. It was very ad-hoc, and before we knew it, we were really a band. We went through several drummers and guitarists before we were happy with the line up."
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"I was one of the first of the uglies. Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter... were very pretty fellows, and that was the trend. I was one of the first of the uglies to get lucky."
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