First Person Quotes

249 First Person quotes by 210 unique authors

When you're the first person whose beliefs are different from what everyone else believes, you're basically saying, "I'm right, and everyone else is wrong." That's… — Larry Ellison
All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the personages. In fact, I am behind everything that happens and that is… — Pedro Almodovar
The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of… — Paul Theroux
Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative. — Aminatta Forna
Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the… — Samantha Bond
My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars. I was probably… — Tom Ford
I have fond memories of the development work that led to a lot of great things in modern gaming - the intensity of the first… — John Carmack
Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman. — Laetitia Casta
Philip Greenspun had a huge impact on me. He was the first person I knew of that embraced online communities, created a real business around… — Matt Mullenweg
Today we take New England clam chowder as something traditional that makes our roots as American cooking very solid, with a lot of foundation. But… — Jose Andres Puerta
The first person to make me realize there was someone behind the film was Steven Spielberg. — Philippe Falardeau
I have an affinity for writing in the first person. I love the intimacy of being dropped inside the character. — Sue Monk Kidd
Who was the first person to fly across the Atlantic? Lindbergh. Who was the second? No idea. — Tim O'Reilly
I was there at the birth of my son and had the extraordinary feeling when I first saw him of thinking this was the first… — Robert Powell
Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I like the first-person… — Orhan Pamuk
I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular. — Orhan Pamuk
I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing about. Novels in… — Orhan Pamuk
My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I find something that… — Laurie Graham
The mind-brain is lived only from a first-person perspective, and it is a dynamic, plastic organ that changes in relation to the environment. — Siri Hustvedt
A number of years ago, I found a book of photography by Weegee; he was a crime photographer in the 1930s in New York. He… — Dan Gilroy
Certainly, my manager Gary Ungar was the first person to give me any attention and hustle for me. This was back in 2009. — Damien Chazelle
I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political… — Ruben Blades
The first person who contacted us was the assistant to President Eisenhower... in the White House. — Betty Hill
I actually am always a music first person. — Duncan Sheik
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes… — Alexandre Dumas

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210 authors contributed a total of 249 First Person Quotes, led by these top contributors: