"My first love was Cinderella, but she ran off with another man."
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"For a lot of people, their first love is what they'll always remember. For me it's always been the first hate, and I think that hatred, though it provides often rather junky energy, is a terrific way of getting you out of bed in the morning and keeping you going."
"The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense."
"Do you believe in first love - or should I pass by again?"
"I love acting. Acting's always been my first love. I grew up watching multi-camera television shows... And I thought I would absolutely be in for that."
"When I first did theatre, I was always doing comedies; it was always my first love. But it wasn't what I was picked for at first, for films and TV."
"The relationship between book and reader is intimate, at best a kind of love affair, and first loves are famously tenacious. [...] First love is a momentous step in our emotional education, and in many ways, it shapes us forever."
"We spend so much of our passion on our first love. I'm not convinced that it-passion-is one of those things that you have an endless amount of-like happiness or sadness. I could be happy all day. I could be sad all day. But I'm not so sure I'll ever love like that again."
"Jude wasn't just my first love. He was my forever love."
"I'm thankful that I proved myself in music which is my first love, my first passion before I got involved in this media. I am hoping to bring it back to the music now."
"My first love was reading, which inspired me to write."
"I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet."
"Whom you would change, you must first love."
"The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous."
"Jude remembered this pain. Every woman had felt some version of it: the end of first love. It was when you learned, for good and always, that love could be impermanent."