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Firsts Quotes by Clive James
- In between the Queen and the First Lady, Nancy Reagan, sat Tony Richardson, looking very calm. Later on it emerged that this was because, having…
- First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.
- Like most people who smoked umpteen cigarettes a day, I tasted only the first one. The succeeding umpteen minus one were a compulsive ritual which…
- Here was my first lesson on the resolutely maintained untidiness and ill-health of the English upper orders. In baggy evening dress and old before their…
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- When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused… — Amy Adams
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