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Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He… — Sarah Bernhardt
Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a… — Sarah Bernhardt
The worst thing a man can ever do is kiss me on the first date. — Halle Berry
I carried my Oscar to bed with me. My first and only three-way happened that night. — Halle Berry
The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it. — Halle Berry
One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the… — Mortimer Adler
A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is… — Annie Besant
My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote some short stories… — Annie Besant
The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in the womb of the mother,… — Annie Besant
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible. — Mary McLeod Bethune
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes… — Ambrose Bierce
Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the -… — Joe Biden
The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong. — Theodor Adorno
My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another. — Buffalo Bill
The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made… — Buffalo Bill
The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began… — Buffalo Bill
I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first… — Josh Billings
If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the… — Larry Bird
When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying when I heard… — Andrea Bocelli
At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people. — Jacqueline Bisset

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