Best First Few Quotes
108 First Few quotes by 102 unique authors
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Yes, I was deprived of sleep, especially during the first few days, ... However, there was nothing physical, no touching or anything like that.
— Unknown Author
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In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.
— Robert Henri
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Don't let a single comic moment pass you by; then help the audience get the laughs. Give them permission to laugh by holding for laughter…
— James Carver
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Genius attracts more hate than love and more disrespect than respect; at least for the first few hundred years.
— Steve Fowler
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What matters most in a child’s development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the first few years.…
— Paul Tough
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The Oxys filled holes in me I hadn't realized were empty. It was, at least for those first few months, a wonderful way to be…
— Donald Ray Pollock
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Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change…
— Jane Siberry
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Hockey was such a part of my life, as well as my family’s, that I knew we were all going to miss it. For the first…
— Kris Draper
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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments...
— John Steinbeck
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Before I got to Juilliard I remember that I had learned the first few bars to all the Sachse etudes in several different keys because…
— Unknown Author
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I love doing voiceover work. I started doing voiceover work when I had just dropped out of school, and the first few professional jobs I…
— Justin Long
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Recently I was directing an episode of 'Glee' and I lost my cell phone - and I didn't have time to buy a new one…
— Eric Stoltz
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During the first few minutes in lift-off, the astronauts were strictly controlled and were powerfully buffeted by the forces of nature struggling to keep them…
— Stephen Covey
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In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get to the plot,…
— Gary Shteyngart
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Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around the…
— Walter Moers
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When I read biographies, I'm only interested in the first few chapters. I'm not interested in when people become successful. I'm interested in what made…
— Michael Eisner
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There are pros and cons to taking money. The best kind of company is one where you don't have to take any moneyI funded the…
— Ray Ozzie
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My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified…
— Edith Wharton
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Children, of course, don't understand at first that they are being cheated. They come to school with a degree of faith and optimism, and they…
— Jonathan Kozol
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I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector';…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I didn't have that many friends my first few years of high school. It was very cliquey and I'm super shy, so it was hard…
— Dylan O'Brien
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If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or bad - you're…
— Lynda Barry
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I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do…
— Jack Vance
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Live. And Live Well. BREATHE. Breathe in and Breathe deeply. Be PRESENT. Do not be past. Do not be future. Be now. On a crystal…
— Kyle Lake
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When I was growing up, I was really into 'Rent' and I actually slept on the street in New York all night to get to…
— Julia Jones
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