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First Quotes
"When I first got pregnant, I freaked out. Then I had to remind myself: I'm turning 30."
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"Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half."
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"In the first place, the preparation of the Nobel lecture which I am to give has shown me, even more clearly than I knew before, how many others share with me, often, indeed, have anticipated me, in the discoveries for which you have awarded me the prize."
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"I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody."
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"Like all bands, the first two albums are always the ones most written about, and the most covered. When a band gets to their third of fourth album, the story of the band has already been told."
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"When I got my first glimpse of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, my breath caught. In that single instant, he was Wolverine."
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"At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists."
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"There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk."
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"The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced."
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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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"When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome."
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"When we recorded our first album sixteen track machines were the thing."
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"My very first magazine cover was the National Enquirer."
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"The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does."
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"I think the first album cover was considered most provocative. I think that contributed a great deal."
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"There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down."
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"The first thing I did was a print ad for Century Plaza. I was five."
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"The first willing concert I went to was Aerosmith when I was like 14."
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"In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely."
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"I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific."
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"It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my band."
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"We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it."
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"I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer."
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"It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online."
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"Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes."
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"The first voice they hear is mine, the first touch they feel is mine, the first human face they see is mine. They just think I'm a strange tiger who walks on two legs."
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"Oh see, first off you gotta realize - everything for me is a reconstruction or deconstruction. I would actually say deconstruction. Mission: Impossible would be the exception. That would be a reconstruction- deconstruction."
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"That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while."
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"Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down."
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"The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite."
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"I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species."
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"When you first are in front of the camera as a young person, you'd be surprised at all the insecurities you can get."
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"Most producers I've known were writers first, and writing is a vital part of any game show. You could easily argue that the writing is the key ingredient that makes 'Jeopardy!' so great."
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"You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice."
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