My First Quotes
2234 My First quotes by 1814 unique authors
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The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named…
— Taiye Selasi
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When I was trying out for my first Olympics at 16, my family and coaches tried to regulate what I ate. But the stricter they…
— Alicia Sacramone
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As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber…
— Asne Seierstad
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My first job was cleaning sheep pens.
— Brian Sandoval
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My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a member…
— Chloe Sevigny
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Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.
— Elizabeth Strout
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My first acting job was a Breck commercial.
— Jaclyn Smith
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In '87 - four years after 'Sports' was released - my family and I began vacationing in Montana. I soon bought my first piece of…
— Huey Lewis
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I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between…
— Laini Taylor
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I never ever slept again after my first pregnancy.
— Uma Thurman
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Probably my favorite artists to listen to James Taylor, Stevie Wonder - I haven't gone back in a really long time and really listened to…
— Jonny Lang
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I met John when I was 18 and I was in my first John Waters film when I was 19.
— Mink Stole
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When I look back to when I had my first son, I was unhappy. I couldn't understand why the weight wasn't just falling off.
— Nicole Sullivan
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
— R L Stine
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Rent' was my first professional job, ever.
— Aaron Tveit
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I'm still waiting for my first big Hollywood paycheck... maybe I'll play a superhero.
— Miles Teller
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So I think that in the beginning of your career you're just looking to work. Luckily for me, my first movie was 'Rabbit Hole' and…
— Miles Teller
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I first became interested in style when I was 16 and I had my first couple of gigs. I realised I couldn't look like the…
— Tinie Tempah
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I endured quite a few injuries when I was younger and had my first surgery on my foot when I was 15. But I love…
— Alicia Vikander
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My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn't have happened. It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 - a baby.
— Carol Vorderman
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I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with…
— Joan D. Vinge
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While at college, I did my first lead on a network TV show, Medic.
— Robert Vaughn
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I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or…
— Amy Waldman
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