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• At first, it’s unfamiliar, then it strikes root.

  Fernando Pessoa

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• When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

  Samuel Johnson

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• When we have ‘second thoughts’ about something, our first thoughts don’t seem like thoughts at all – just feelings.

  Sydney J. Harris

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• The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it’s working, it was your idea, and if it’s not, it’s somebody else’s idea.

  Tom T. Hall

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• Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day… and rightly so.

  Sue Grafton

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• I had gotten one of the first Korg synthesizers with 300 presets.

  Steven Tyler

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• Somebody’s got to be last. Somebody’s going to be first.

  Steve Womack

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• My first album, ‘Get Lifted,’ was a hip-hop soul album that had some of its roots in the church, as far as the sonic choices, in the way that I sing and write songs. I have always had that as part of my background and part of my influence when I am making music.

  John Legend

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• You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good.

  Steve Lacy

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• First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law.

  Steve Chabot

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• When I first got started in the late ’70s, early ’80s, and first was thinking about the interactive world, I believed so fervently that it was the next big thing, I thought it would happen quickly.

  Steve Case

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• Directing television is really hard – it’s so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.

  Steve Buscemi

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• The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.

  Stephen Cole Kleene

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• I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120 years ago. The languages, a year of rhetoric, all of the great books, Western Man courses, stuff like that.

  Stephen Colbert

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• The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.

  Karl Lagerfeld

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  This is a very encouraging first step.

  A. Louis Bourgeois

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• The first 2 weeks, they didn’t learn the piece – they went through the process of how the piece was made.

  Siobhan Davies

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• Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as ‘The Pacific’.

  Steven Spielberg

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• My dad took me to my first movie.

  Steven Spielberg

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• I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume.

  Shelby Foote

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