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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist
First Love

"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."

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Seth Green Actor
First Love

"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."

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Olivia Wilde Actress, Producer, Director
First Love

"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."

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Laura Miller Author
First Love

"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."

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Laura Miller Author
First Love

"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."

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Kid Rock Musician, Actor
First 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."

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"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."

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