My First Quotes
2234 My First quotes by 1814 unique authors
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By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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There were about ten years of trying, failing, trying again, suffering rejection, etc. My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book…
— Sara Zarr
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Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am very happy to announce my renewal with HRC. I had always dreamed about being part of the Repsol Honda Team, and thanks to…
— Marc Marquez
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All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater.
— Jesse Tyler Ferguson
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At my first Golden Globes, I met people I was very much enamored by: Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. It was…
— Jesse Tyler Ferguson
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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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The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so…
— Chili Davis
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One of my first jobs was on a lesbian cruise. I was the ship comedian for the Lesbian Love Boat.
— Margaret Cho
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No matter what these terrorists do, I refuse to be terrorized. All this requires is just a few alterations in our day to day lives.…
— Margaret Cho
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I sent my father to Mecca for Hajj with my first paycheck
— Mamadou Sakho
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Film is my first love. It wasn't something I intended to fall in love with, but I grew to love it.
— Preity Zinta
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I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has…
— Haile Gebrselassie
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I remember the time when I met my first girlfriend. It was raining and I was walking, and all of a sudden this girl put…
— Yunho
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My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may…
— George Edward Woodberry
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I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me…
— Ronald Reagan
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As a matter of fact, there was a period of time, especially in my first career, when that's the only one who would work out…
— George Foreman
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I don't think I remember my first memory.
— Ellen DeGeneres
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I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.
— John Green
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My worst memory is of my first dance lesson as a 14-year old in Prague. My mother put me in this silver and pink lame…
— Martina Navratilova
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I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
— Jim Harrison
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I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range - it was…
— Ed Begley, Jr.
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Doug Ford was one of the first of the old pros I saw during my first full year on tour, in 1963. To this day…
— Ray Floyd
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I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was…
— Ken Burns
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I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time…
— Martin Amis
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