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"An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact."
"It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion."
"The first time I ever screamed at someone was in a scene, and I'd never screamed at someone in my life."
"The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply."
"The electron is first of all your concept of the electron."
"The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are. Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning. Further, this nature is styled Truth; and it is the first cause of all that is true."
"The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men."
"On the subject of the nature of the gods, the first question is Do the gods exist or do the not? It is difficult you may say to deny that they exist. I would agree if we were arguing the matter in a public assembly, but in a private discussion of this kind, it is perfectly easy to do so."
"I was very active. I was always all over the place trying to do a million things, just into this activity. If you asked me when I was 14 what I wanted to be: "Activist, first, is my occupation. I am an activist.""
"I felt that there was a beautiful story [ in "All We Had"] to be told and one that was valuable and also one that was a size that I could do as my first."
"I really enjoyed working on the first one [Batman franchise] and I wish I could have worked with Chris Nolan again and I hope to work with him again."
"These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try."
"O'er the rugged mountain's brow Clara threw the twins she nursed, And remarked,'I wonder now Which will reach the bottom first?"
"I met Richard Pryor for the first time in Calgary, in Canada. A very quiet, modest meeting."
"Updike was the first to take the penile sensorium under the wing of elaborate metaphorical prose."
"When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry."
"I wanted my first novel to be a veritable infarct of narrative cloggers-the trick being to feel your way through each clog by blowing it up until its obstructiveness finally reveals not blank mass but unlooked-for seepage points of passage."
"I took Hedo (Turkoglu) in the first game and Rashard (Lewis) hit the winning shot. I took Rashard in the second game and Hedo hit the shot. If I could clone myself, we'd be all right. But I can't."
"When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports."
"The iPad was my first splurge after I got my first paychecks. I paid off the debt, and I now bring the iPad with me to auditions."
