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"There are two kinds of writers. There are architects and gardeners. The architects do blueprints before they drive the first nail. The gardeners just dig a hole and plant the seed and see what comes up."
""Weese," she would whisper, first of all. "Dunsen, Chiswyck, Polliver, Raff the Sweetling. The Tickler and the Hound. Ser Gregor, Ser Armory, Ser Ilyn, Ser Meryn, King Joffrey, Queen Cersei.""
"Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live."
"First rule, stick them with the pointy end!"
"[T]he first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form the leading traits in its character."
"As Aristotle said, happiness is not a condition that is produced or stands on its own; rather, it is a frame of mind that accompanies an activity. But another frame of mind comes first. It is a steely determination to do well."
"Appearances are nothing.... And first of all they should not be feared, they are only dangerous to the weak."
"Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterwards."
"The Phantom, as well as being backed up by that music, it just so was a role that I identified with so powerfully. From the first second that I walked on to perform."
"The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact."
"When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live."
"A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits."
"The first fact about the celebration of a birthday is that it is a way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a good thing to be alive."
"I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller"
"Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep them out of it."
"My Zombie apocalypse plan is simple but effective; I fully intend to die in the very first wave."
"I think with any songwriter the first 1,000 songs are always terrible."
"A Jew describes another Jew simply as a human being; a Gentile describes him, first and foremost, as a Jew."
"I'm a mom first, a singer second."
"The first light had cast the first shadow."
