First Person Quotes
249 First Person quotes by 210 unique authors
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I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by…
— Shirley Chisholm
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After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela.
— Naomi Campbell
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I trust my mom with anything. If I have a problem, my mom is always the first person I go to.
— Richard Fleeshman
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I have often wondered who was the first person to realize that eating an artichoke was a good idea.
— Chris Cosentino
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When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
— Daphne du Maurier
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Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only…
— Thomas Merton
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Fortunately I am not the first person to tell you that you will never die. You simply lose your body. You will be the same…
— Unknown Author
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In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the…
— Tracy Kidder
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I have an interest in making first-person games,
— Fumito Ueda
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The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with...
— Laura Miller
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Make no mistake, the organizations website counsels. You will be writing a lot of crap. And thats a good thing. By forcing yourself to write…
— Laura Miller
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A lot of individuals are so worried about being politically correct. I'd rather go ahead and say what's on my mind than to sit there…
— Frank Mir
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Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.
— Aaron Sorkin
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The first person you have to resurrect is yourself
— Unknown Author
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I keep moving through time and time keeps moving through me. And through that process, life takes shape. The question is what shape it is.…
— Questlove
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I've never been able to control a first-person shooter, but as soon as I used the Revolution controller, I found it very easy to control…
— Satoru Iwata
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down…
— Karl Marlantes
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Houllier did what he had to do – I’m not the first person to be treated like a disposable commodity
— Robbie Fowler
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I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.
— Diane Wakoski
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The first person you have to inspire every day is yourself. Running will do that.
— Marc Parent
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Perfume is a form of writing, an ink, a choice made in the first person, the dot on the i, a weapon, a courteous gesture,…
— Serge Lutens
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It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.
— Doris Lessing
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I was in love with New York. I do not mean 'love' in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the…
— Joan Didion
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In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.
— Henry David Thoreau
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We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.
— Henry David Thoreau
Who Wrote These First Person Quotes
210 authors contributed a total of 249 First Person Quotes, led by these top contributors: